1803 - Hardwick to Fountain - Pittsylvania Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
01/17/1803
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
In the name of God Amen. I Pleasant Hardwick of the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia being very sick and weak in body and of perfect mind and memory, calling into mind the Mortality of my body, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and touching my Worldly Estate where it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give and desire and dispose in the following manner and form. After all my just debts are paid, secondly I do hereby nominate and appoint my dearly beloved Wife, Mickey Hardwick Executor and William Spilles Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former wills by me heretofore made, to wit, in manner and form following, to my dearly beloved Wife I give and bequeath all my Estate real and personal during her natural life and to her Heirs and assigns for ever reserving unto my Negro boy Fountain for his good Services the privilege of being Manumitted and set free at the completion of his thirty first year (he being now ten years of age). In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two.
Pleasant Hardwick (seal)
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced,
and declared by the said Pleasant Hardwick as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.
L B Allen
Jn Wallace } Georgia- Burke County
James Watts
Charles Simons
Personally appeared in court LB Allen who being duly sworn made oath that he saw the Testator Pleasant Hardwick deceased sign his name to within will for the purposes within mentioned, and that the said Testator was then of sound disposing mind and memory to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he signed his name together with John Wallace, James Watts, and Charles Simons as witnesses to the same.
Sworn to the 4th Jan 1803 LB Allen
Wm Baduly, C.C.O.K.
A true copy taken from the original the day and year above written.
Wm. Baduly, C.C.O.K.
At a Court held for Pittsylvania County January the 17, 1803
The foregoing copy of the last will and testament of Pleasant Hardwick deceased was presented in Court by Mickey Hardwick the Executor herein named, and together with the certificate of William Baduly Clerk of the County Court of Burke in the State of Georgia, of the poof and record of the same were by this court ordered to be recorded, and the said Executors having first taken the oath by law- prescribed and together with John Southerlin, William Southerlin & Quinn [?Marker?] her securities entered into and acknowledged their bond in the penalty of ten thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs on her motion certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate of the said will in due form. And liberty is reserved for William Spilles the Executor therein named to join in the probate when he shall think fit.
Teste Will Tunstall, Clerk
Pleasant Hardwick (seal)
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced,
and declared by the said Pleasant Hardwick as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.
L B Allen
Jn Wallace } Georgia- Burke County
James Watts
Charles Simons
Personally appeared in court LB Allen who being duly sworn made oath that he saw the Testator Pleasant Hardwick deceased sign his name to within will for the purposes within mentioned, and that the said Testator was then of sound disposing mind and memory to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he signed his name together with John Wallace, James Watts, and Charles Simons as witnesses to the same.
Sworn to the 4th Jan 1803 LB Allen
Wm Baduly, C.C.O.K.
A true copy taken from the original the day and year above written.
Wm. Baduly, C.C.O.K.
At a Court held for Pittsylvania County January the 17, 1803
The foregoing copy of the last will and testament of Pleasant Hardwick deceased was presented in Court by Mickey Hardwick the Executor herein named, and together with the certificate of William Baduly Clerk of the County Court of Burke in the State of Georgia, of the poof and record of the same were by this court ordered to be recorded, and the said Executors having first taken the oath by law- prescribed and together with John Southerlin, William Southerlin & Quinn [?Marker?] her securities entered into and acknowledged their bond in the penalty of ten thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs on her motion certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate of the said will in due form. And liberty is reserved for William Spilles the Executor therein named to join in the probate when he shall think fit.
Teste Will Tunstall, Clerk
Record Location
D&WB 11:252-253
Document Type
Will
Files
Collection
Citation
“1803 - Hardwick to Fountain - Pittsylvania Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/953.