Abstract of Joel's Will
Will Book A page 60, Richmond County, Georgia
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To each child as they come of age, a slave, the eldest child to have the first choice. To wife, Frances, the remainder of the estate, as long as she lives or remains a widow. My executors to make a deed to Nathaniel Barnett to 200 acres land to be taken from the upper part of my tract of land on little Ogeechee. All other lands in Georgia and South Carolina to be equally divided among my sons. Wife, Frances sole executrix during widowhood. If she remarries, my sons, Robert, Nathan and Joel to be executors.
Signed on Oct. 28, 1787
Probated: Nov. 19, 1788
Witnesses: John Gibson, John Mowbray, Benjamin Mosley
Note: Will is at Richmond County. The name of county changed to Columbia two years after his death. DAR considers Columbia as his death county.
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American Revolutionary Service
Joel and family moved to Stephens Creek, Edgefield District, South Carolina in 1779, about 30 miles from Augusta, Georgia. The following winter, all of South Carolina was over-run by the British Troops. Joel was seized and thrown into the Camden jail. Gaunt, hungry and miserable, he was subjected to taunts of passing Tory. Without medical aid and a scant supply of hard bread, Joel and about 250 others remained prisoners the greater part of the summer. Some of Joel's loyal neighbors gained his release. His house was burned twice by the Tories. In 1783, he and family moved to Georgia.
Abstract of Joel's Will
Will Book A page 60, Richmond County, Georgia
Book: Historical Collections of Georgia Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution online Ancestry.com.
To each child as they come of age, a slave, the eldest child to have the first choice. To wife, Frances, the remainder of the estate, as long as she lives or remains a widow. My executors to make a deed to Nathaniel Barnett to 200 acres land to be taken from the upper part of my tract of land on little Ogeechee. All other lands in Georgia and South Carolina to be equally divided among my sons. Wife, Frances sole executrix during widowhood. If she remarries, my sons, Robert, Nathan and Joel to be executors.
Signed on Oct. 28, 1787
Probated: Nov. 19, 1788
Witnesses: John Gibson, John Mowbray, Benjamin Mosley
Note: Will is at Richmond County. The name of county changed to Columbia two years after his death. DAR considers Columbia as his death county.
See Will at Ancestry.com
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American Revolutionary Service
Joel and family moved to Stephens Creek, Edgefield District, South Carolina in 1779, about 30 miles from Augusta, Georgia. The following winter, all of South Carolina was over-run by the British Troops. Joel was seized and thrown into the Camden jail. Gaunt, hungry and miserable, he was subjected to taunts of passing Tory. Without medical aid and a scant supply of hard bread, Joel and about 250 others remained prisoners the greater part of the summer. Some of Joel's loyal neighbors gained his release. His house was burned twice by the Tories. In 1783, he and family moved to Georgia.