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Cothern [Cawthon ?] as guardian of Willie Edwards Bonner"],"dc_format":["image/jp2"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":null,"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":null,"dcterms_subject":["Enslaved persons--Georgia","Slave records--Georgia","Slavery--Georgia--History","Legal documents"],"dcterms_title":["Legal document naming enslaved persons"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Hargrett Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":["https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2391_001-001#item"],"edm_is_shown_at":["https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2391_001-001"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":["Cite as: Richard M. Johnston legal document, ms2391, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries."],"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["legal documents"],"dcterms_extent":["3 pages"],"dlg_subject_personal":["Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898"],"iiif_manifest_url_ss":"https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2391_001-001/presentation/manifest.json","dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"[001] \n \nState of Georgia \nHancock County  \n Know all men by \nthese presents that I \nMalcolm Johnston of said state and \nCounty for and in consideration of the \nlove and affection which I bear unto \nWillie Edwards Bonner the daughter of \nthe late Seymour Bonner of Columbia in \nsaid state hereby give unto the said Willie \nEdwards Bonner the following property to \nwit. Modena a negro woman about thirty \nSix years of age, Horace her son about fourteen \nyears of age Charlotte her daughter about five \nyears of age. Amy another daughter about \ntwo years old and Caroline, Modena's daughter, \nabout sixteen years old, and her two child- \ndren to wit Sidney a boy about two years old \nand Abram a boy about three months old. \nAlso one piano, mahogany bureau and work stand, \na pair of gold spectacles, one gold \nthimble. 13 volumes of [title unknown] book, 2 volumes \nEvery Body's Album [?] Scarce History of the Bible [?], 2 volumes \nof Wesley's Sermons, Miss Leslie Ried's Book, one \nsmall and one large family Bible 13 [unknown] \ntypes, one ambro [?] type, 4 small pictures of \nEurope, [Asia], [Africa], and [Amerique?] 2 boxes of \nshells, 1 pair of small flower vases, some glass \nmantel piece ornaments one pair film plated [?] \n \n[002] \n \n[left page] \n \ncandlesticks our pair brass andirons [?] and finder [?] \nthe feather bed, 3 wool matrasses two \nbedsteads four pairs of sheets two \nquilts, four orjured [?] bed covers and  \none knit quilt, and two conch shells, unto the said Willie Edwards, \nBonner for her sole and separate use during \nher natural life, free from the liabilities and \nmarital rights of any husband whom she \nmay marry, and at his death the said \nnegro slaves with their increase to be equally \ndivided among any children whom the \nsaid Willie may have, and the \ninterpretations [?] of such as may be deceased [?] \nsaid representations taking per stripes [?] \nand in case the said Willie should \ndie having no child or children or \nrepresentations [?] of such, then the said \nnegroes with their increase to be equally \ndivided among such of the following \npersons as shall at her death be living. \nTo wit. Nora H. Minnis [or Mims]. Sula B. Slade, \nRosa H. Bonner, and Mary J. Bonner, Sisters \nof the said Willie, and Lucy S. Metcalf, \nMaggie P. Metcalf, daughters of Mrs. \nMary Metcalf, and Lucy G. [?] Shaffer daughter \nof Mrs. Henrietta M. Shaffer, the said \nNora H Minnis [or Mims] to have one hundred dollars \nthe advantage for keeping the said \nWillie Edwards Bonner for this present \n \n[right page] \n \nyear, hereby reserving for my own use until \nmy death, the family Bible, andirons \nand finder [?] and the bedsteads \u0026 furniture of \nthe beds. \nAnd I the said Malcolm Johnston, hereby \nappoint, as I am about to remove from \nthe county, my friend Ezekiel F. Cothern [Cawthon ?] \nas the trustee of said property together with \na gold watch and chain, which is the \nonly property of the said Willie which I [unknown] \n[unknown] as her guardian, the said Ezekiel \nF. being hereby authorized to turn over the \nsaid property watch and chain, negroes and the rest except \nsuch as I have reserved to whomsoever \nmay be appointed the guardian of the \nproperty of the said Willie \n \n In testimony whereof I have hereto set my \nhand and affixed my seal this 27th day \nof December 1859. \n  [signed] Malcolm Johnston \n \nSigned sealed and delivered \nin presence of us, the words \n\"and two conch shells\", \"watch \nand chain\" and \"property of the\" \nare interlined before signing \n[signed] L. S. Stewart \n Jno. T. Berry J. I. C. \n \n[003] \n \nMalcolm Johnston \nto  \nE. F. Cothern [Cawthon ?] \ntrustee \n \nGeorgia \nHancock County \nRegistered in \nthe clerks office of \nthe Superior Court \nof said County in \nBook R pages 377 and \n378. 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