Legal document naming enslaved persons

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State of Georgia
Hancock County
Know all men by
these presents that I
Malcolm Johnston of said state and
County for and in consideration of the
love and affection which I bear unto
Willie Edwards Bonner the daughter of
the late Seymour Bonner of Columbia in
said state hereby give unto the said Willie
Edwards Bonner the following property to
wit. Modena a negro woman about thirty
Six years of age, Horace her son about fourteen
years of age Charlotte her daughter about five
years of age. Amy another daughter about
two years old and Caroline, Modena's daughter,
about sixteen years old, and her two child-
dren to wit Sidney a boy about two years old
and Abram a boy about three months old.
Also one piano, mahogany bureau and work stand,
a pair of gold spectacles, one gold
thimble. 13 volumes of [title unknown] book, 2 volumes
Every Body's Album [?] Scarce History of the Bible [?], 2 volumes
of Wesley's Sermons, Miss Leslie Ried's Book, one
small and one large family Bible 13 [unknown]
types, one ambro [?] type, 4 small pictures of
Europe, [Asia], [Africa], and [Amerique?] 2 boxes of
shells, 1 pair of small flower vases, some glass
mantel piece ornaments one pair film plated [?]

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candlesticks our pair brass andirons [?] and finder [?]
the feather bed, 3 wool matrasses two
bedsteads four pairs of sheets two
quilts, four orjured [?] bed covers and
one knit quilt, and two conch shells, unto the said Willie Edwards,
Bonner for her sole and separate use during
her natural life, free from the liabilities and
marital rights of any husband whom she
may marry, and at his death the said
negro slaves with their increase to be equally
divided among any children whom the
said Willie may have, and the
interpretations [?] of such as may be deceased [?]
said representations taking per stripes [?]
and in case the said Willie should
die having no child or children or
representations [?] of such, then the said
negroes with their increase to be equally
divided among such of the following
persons as shall at her death be living.
To wit. Nora H. Minnis [or Mims]. Sula B. Slade,
Rosa H. Bonner, and Mary J. Bonner, Sisters
of the said Willie, and Lucy S. Metcalf,
Maggie P. Metcalf, daughters of Mrs.
Mary Metcalf, and Lucy G. [?] Shaffer daughter
of Mrs. Henrietta M. Shaffer, the said
Nora H Minnis [or Mims] to have one hundred dollars
the advantage for keeping the said
Willie Edwards Bonner for this present

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year, hereby reserving for my own use until
my death, the family Bible, andirons
and finder [?] and the bedsteads & furniture of
the beds.
And I the said Malcolm Johnston, hereby
appoint, as I am about to remove from
the county, my friend Ezekiel F. Cothern [Cawthon ?]
as the trustee of said property together with
a gold watch and chain, which is the
only property of the said Willie which I [unknown]
[unknown] as her guardian, the said Ezekiel
F. being hereby authorized to turn over the
said property watch and chain, negroes and the rest except
such as I have reserved to whomsoever
may be appointed the guardian of the
property of the said Willie

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and affixed my seal this 27th day
of December 1859.
[signed] Malcolm Johnston

Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of us, the words
"and two conch shells", "watch
and chain" and "property of the"
are interlined before signing
[signed] L. S. Stewart
Jno. T. Berry J. I. C.

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Malcolm Johnston
to
E. F. Cothern [Cawthon ?]
trustee

Georgia
Hancock County
Registered in
the clerks office of
the Superior Court
of said County in
Book R pages 377 and
378. This 18 day
January 1860

[signed] [?] Andrew