- No305
Colonial wills, 1733-1778
Wills and accompanying documents, including attestations, letters of administration, warrants of appraisement, and estate inventories, from the Colony of Georgia.
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Publisher
Record Group 049-01-02, Colony of Georgia -- Wills, Georgia Archives, Morrow, Ga.
Date of Original
1733/1778
Subject
Wills--Georgia
Court records--Georgia
Georgia--Genealogy
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
Medium
wills
Type
Text
Description
This series consists of wills probated in the Colony of Georgia. There are thirty-two wills from the Trustee period, 1733-1753. After Georgia became a royal colony in 1754, the governor acted as Ordinary or appointed an official to carry out such duties. The Ordinary probated wills and administered estates by appointing executors, provided instructions to administrators for the inventory and appraisal of an estate, and appointed guardians for minor children. These documents are the copies submitted to the Ordinary for transcription into volumes as the official record copies. The series includes wills in French and in German, some of which include English translations.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Georgia Archives
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