Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameMary Gresham 1117, 5G Grandmother
Birthca 1750, Orange Co NC
Deathaft 1821 Age: 71
FatherHarris Gresham (ca1730-)
Spouses
1Alexander Ellick Scoggin , 5G Grandfather
Birth1750, Orange Co VA or NC
DeathJul 1811, Oglethorpe Co GA Age: 61
FatherJohn (Jonathan?) Scoggin (1721-1760)
MotherMildred Jonas (1720-1760)
Marriage17751118
ChildrenMillington (ca1774-1841)
 Alexander (1775-)
 Gresham (1778-1840)
 Rhoda (1779-ca1860)
 Gillam Glenn (1780-1862)
 Sarah (Sally) (1783-1856)
 Sinia (Senea) (ca1785-)
 Thomas E. (1787-1867)
 Wiley (1790-)
 Davis (1790-)
Notes for Mary Gresham
IGI record says she was born in 1750 in NC or VA, died after 1821, married about 1775. Birth date/place: Susan Nockton.
Notes for Alexander Ellick (Spouse 1)
Birth/death dates/places: Susan Nockton; IGI record.

Will of Alexander (Ellick) Scogin F GA O L I PT 215001119

I, Ellick Scogin, Oglethorpe County Georgia, being of sound mind and memory, and calling to mind the mortality of my body, do make and ordain this my last will and testament ..1st, commit my body to the earth and soul to the god who gave it..It is my wish that my funeral expenses and just debts be paid, etc.

Item 1st; I give and bequeth to my beloved wife, Mary Scogin, all my estate, real and personal, for her use for her natural life, or widowhood, and if she should remarry, enjoy the use of my negro woman, Pab, during her lifetime...

Item 2nd; I give to my children, to wit, Senia, Davis and Wiley Scogin the tract of land on which I now live, including the plantation and every part thereof, to be equally divided between them at the death of their mother, or marriage...

Item 3rd; To my daughter Salley Hendon, my negro girl, Hanner, which she is to have at her appointment

Item 5th; To Senia, Davis and Wiley, to each one good horse, saddle and bridle, one good bed and furniture, one cow and one calf

Item 6th; At the death or marriage of my wife, all my estate, real and personal, be appraised by dis-interested persons so as to form an equal division between all my children, and if the 2 above named negro girls shall increase in value to more than their part, they are to replace back the overplus so as to make an equal division

Item 7th; I give my executors full power to sell any part of my estate they may think proper so as not to alter or change the design of this will

Lastly, I appoint my beloved wife Mary Scogin and Thomas Roads executrix and executor of my will, this 6/05/1809...

Elick Scogin, signed, sealed and delivered , in the presence of us, Betsy Hattey, Ruth Roads and Thomas Roads -
recorded 1/09/1811.

Oglethorpe County , Georgia Inventory and Appraisment of the Estate of Alexander Scoggin, deceased

1 Negro woman Pab - $250.00 Boy Lewis - $325.00 $575.00
1 Negro woman Chaney - $275.00 Ransom - $200.00 $475.00
1 Negro woman Hannah - $175.00 Rary - $150.00 $325.00
1 Negro woman Dorcas - $150.00Green - $100.00 $250.00
22 head hogs $35.001 sorrel mare - $25.00 $ 60.00
1 black mare - $25.001 gray mare - $40.00 $ 65.00
4 feather beds & furniture and 3 steads $ 95.00
7 head cattle - $30.0013 head of geese $ 36.00
9 chairs - $4.50 & table $2.00 $ 6.50
2 cotton wheels & 1 linning wheel $ 6.00
1 counting reel & cupboard & furniture $ 12.50
1 loom & apparatus - $6.001 shotgun $ 7.50
1 case & bottles - $10.00Kitchen furniture $ 21.00
1 pair steelards - $2.00 shovel, tongs & poker $ 9.00
included in above, fire dogs
1 looking glass and books - $5.25 trunk & desk $ 7.75
candle sniff & moulds $ 1.00
parcel of corn and meat $105.00
leather & plantation stencils $ 20.00
sadirons, hogshead, barrels and rawhides $ 8.00
1 flax hackle and carpenter tools $ 2.25
fiddle, 2 bells, cutting knife and box $ 2.00
basket, 3 pair cards, sheep shears and trumpet $ 2.75
1 home, 2 saddles * 1 belt $ 8.00
Notes due deceased $650.00
7 acres of land (rest of page torn) $600.00

total value of estate of Elick (Alexander) Scogin was $3351.00 == appraisers;
Peter Smith, Benjamin Ellsberry, certifying the above appraisment and sworn before me this 9th February, 1811....
Robert Gillispi Thomas Roads, Exec.
3/15/1811 Mat. Rainey CCO.....
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