James BAILEY

                   RESEARCH NOTE: (From Ancestry World Tree) Named wife Littisha, son John Guienn Bailey, son James, son Azariah James, Joseph Bailey, Mary Bostick, Letissha Street and Ann Jones.Left his plantation to his wife to be inherited by John Guienn Bailey; to son James 200 acres; "when wife dies, to all my children, to wit, Azariah James Bailey, Joseph Bailey, John Guienn Bailey, Mary Bostick, Letissha Street and ann Jones. Azariah and John Guienn Bailey, execrs.

Last Will and TestamentofJames BaileyIn the name of God Amen. I, JAMES BAILEY, of the County of Wilkes, being in perfect health of body and perfect mind & memory thanks be to God. Calling unto mind the mortality of my body, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament and as touching such worldly estate whereas it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.FIRST, I give and bequeath to LITTISHA, my beloved wife, the plantation and tract of land whereon I now reside containing two hundred & fifty acres, more or less, being what is the west side of my spring branch and a new line up to a corner white oak being Azariah Bailey Line, together with all my personal estate during her natural life and at her decease, I give the above mentioned plantation and tract of land to my son, JOHN GUINN BAILEY, to his assigns and his heirs forever.Also, I give to my son, JAMES BAILEY, a tract of land containing two hundred acres according to a grant the same lying on the west side of the above mentioned tract, to him and his heirs forever, and at the decease of my wife, I leave the whole of my personal estate to be sold and equally divided between all my children to-wit: AZARIAH JAMES BAILEY; JOSEPH BAILEY; JOHN GUINN BAILEY; MARY BOSTICK; LITTISHA STREET; and ANN JONES.I, likewise constitute, make and ordain AZARIAH BAILEY and JOHN GUINN BAILEY, executors of this my last Will and Testament, and revoking all former ones. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty-first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.Signed, sealed, published, pronounced & declared by the said JAMES BAILEY James Baileyas his last Will & Testament in the presence of us. Richard HeardJesse BaileyWilliam HeardGeorgia Wilkes County Personally appeared before me, Richard Heard & William Heard, two of the subscribing witnesses to the within Will and being duly sworn saith that they saw JAMES BAILEY sign, seal, publish and declare the within instrument of writing to be his last Will and Testament and that at the time of his so doing, he was of sound mind and memory.Sworn to before me his 1st August, 1797. Richard HeardWilliam Heard