Testator Index
Minutes: Inventory & Appraisement, 1850 - 1860
Rabun Co., GA

The following record is a testator index of the book "Minutes: Inventory & Appraisement, 1850 - 1860" for Rabun Co., GA held in the Probate Judge's office at the courthouse in Clayton. There are some wills recorded in this book. At the bottom are listed some minors of the deceased named herein; another section lists some slaves as they were named, and the final section deals with miscellaneous items mentioned in this book.

Other notes: Pages 183, 253 and 290 were blank. Page 186 was numbered twice in the book; herein, the first 186 is referred to as 186A and the second as 186B. There was a page 193 and then a page 193A. Page 206/207 was torn out of the book. Two pages between pages 214 and 215 were unnumbered. Starting at page 354, the pages were misnumbered; page 354 reads "34", and the pages thereafter start at 345 and continue. The page numbers jump from 375 to 396.

Baker, R. P.
22 - 24
[of Pickens Dist., SC, of which Ira R. Nicholson was the 
administrator]

Brown, Andrew
348-350, 371-374, 398-399

Coffee, Edward
329-240, 404-413

Coffee, John
28

Coffee, Newton H.
346-397

Crawford, Thomas G.
158, 170-172

Derrick, John
3, 8-9, 187

Duncan, Daniel
234-238, 288-289, 398

FinCannon, Isaac
56, 58-68, 108, 109, 113, 123, 175

Franklin, Benjamin
56, 107

Fuller, Ransom
30-33, 74-75, 109, 114-120, 121, 254-256

Gaines, William [I/J.] [also Gains]
136-137, 157-158, 192, 211-215, 240, 341-344

Hefner, Samuel [also Heffner]
[not #d, front of book], 11, 42, 80, 106, 148, 259-260, 365, 366-367

Henson, Henry
98, 99-102, 163-169, 204-205, 230, 262-276, 399-400

Hopper, Samuel
242-245, 374

Hunnicutt, James [also Huneycutt]
134, 160-163, 184, 251-252, 256-258

Jamison, Thos. P.
291-328

Jones, James
135

Kelly, John
4-5, 6, 7, 11, 27, 28, 29, 34-35, 47, 49, 57, 73, 104, 106, 146, 
148, 186, 209-210, 229, 239, 260-261, 358-360, 365, 365-366

Kerby, William Rufus
345-355

Langston, Wm. D.
3, 12, 29, 37, 50, 57, 79, 104, 147, 173-174, 195, 229, 233, 286-287

McClain, David
188-190, 210-211, 219-228, 233, 282-285

McClain, John
12, 38-40, 103, 149-150, 186, 215-219

McCurley, Elisabeth
184

McKinney, David
13, 15, 16-21, 27, 29, 43-44, 79, 80, 193, 194, 208-209, 246-247, 
346(2nd)-347, 350(2nd)-357, 375, 413-416

McKinny, William
396

Nicholson, Ira R.
21, 28, 45, 47
[see R. P. Baker]

Price, Silas B.
48, 52-55, 90-91, 231

Ritchie, Eli [also Richie and Richey]
46 [crossed out], 51, 57, 69-72, 91-92, 93-97, 105, 122, 123, 
124-134, 136, 157-158, 173, 230

Smith, Allen
28, 36, 122

Steel, John
1-2

Stonecypher, James
110, 136, 138-146, 151-156, 181-182, 195-203, 241, 277-281, 368-371,
400-403

Wall, Drewry
248-250

Watts, Joseph [also Wats]
108, 176-180, 185-186B, 190-192, 232, 285-286

Watts, Lidea
176

Webster, William B.
121

Woods, Thomas M.
10, 13, 14, 25-26, 27, 41, 57, 78, 104, 158-159


ORPHANS NAMED:
PAGES    DECEASED PARENT          MINOR(S)
-----    ---------------          --------
56       Franklin, Benjamin       Albert Franklin
135      Jones, James             John Jones b. 06 Jul 1838
                                  Adaline Jones b. 07 Feb 1845
                                  James Knox Polk Jones b. 08 Aug 
                                       1843
57       Langston, Wm. D.         Adaline Langston
                                  Martha Evaline Langston
                                  James Ira Langston
                                  William D. Langston
184      McCurley, Elisabeth      Samuel McCurley
28       Smith, Allen             James A. Smith
121      Webster, William B.      James A. Webster
                                  Archibald M. Webster


SLAVES NAMED:
PAGES    DECEASED OWNER           SLAVE(S)
-----    --------------           --------
335-6    Coffee, Edward           Negro boy, Moze
                                  Negro girl, Huldah
                                  Negro girl, Betty Ann
                                  Negro boy, Aaron
                                  Negro girl, Harriet
                                  Negro boy, Marshal
                                  Negro girl, Nerve
                                  Child, Milo [child of Nerve]
361      Kelly, John              Ned, Negroman
                                  Elizabeth [aka Lis]
                                  Child [not named]


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:
Page 48: August Term 1852, 10% of state tax collected set aside for
         poor school fund
Page 50: W. W. Paine authorized to receive poor school funds from
         state
Page 108: 1854, ordered that a percentage of the state tax go to
          poor school fund
Page 108: James [no surname], John F. Smith and Marcus L. King
          appointed trustees of the poor school of Tallulah Dist.
Page 108: Christopher Smith, Jacob Gables and Edley P. Jones
          appointed trustees of the poor school of Tiger Dist.
Page 137: Ordered that the tax collector lay ten percent on the 
          State tax for poor school purposes
Page 159: Ordered that Edward Coffee be authorized to receive from
          the Governor a warrant upon the Treasurer of the State for
          the distribution of the poor school fund for 1855