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wife Jane Raffety all my real and personal estate during her life and at her death all my personal estate that is negroes, stock and etc. should be equally divided between my six children Dorothy, Lyddia, Dorcas, Nancy, Judah, and Hardemon Raffety. When my wife Jane dies all my lands should be equally divided between the whole of my children Polly, Betsey Ann, Dorothy, Lyddia, Dorcas, Nancy, Judith, and Hardaman Raffety. Executors: Glen Owen, Jno. Hardeman, and Jane Raffety. /s/ Richard (x) Raffety. Witnesses: Wm. Strong, James W. Burns, John Burns.247
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| | Richard Rafferty’s land adjoined Glen and Dorothy Owen’s land on the north, 27 September 1797.248 On 23 May 1803, William Johnson sold to Glen Owen, for $15, 10 acres on Dry Fork of Long Creek waters, adjoining Bates and Raffety now property of Glen Owen.249
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| | On 2 February 1804 in Oglethorpe County, Dorothy Raffety and Lydia Raffety witnessed a deed from their uncle John Hardeman to Parmenas Haynes, Sr.250
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| | On 5 March 1808 in Oglethorpe County, Glen Owen sold to Robert Gennings, for $331.75, 82 acres on Dry Fork waters in Oglethorpe County, part of Richard Rafferty’s land, adjoining Ball, where Robert Gennings’s old line intersects Rafferty’s back line, on back line adjoining Glen Owen.251
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| | Jane Raffety was included in the 1800 U.S. Census, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Captain McElroy's District, next door to Glen Owen: Jane Raffety, males, 1 16/26, females, 2 under 10; 2 10/16; 1 26/45; 5 slaves.252
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| 247 Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Will Book A, p. 49-50. Will of Richard Raffety.
| | 248 Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Deed Books A – E, 1794-1809, p. 68. Deed Book B, p. 178, deed from Glen and Dorothy Owen to Robert Jinnings.
| | 249 Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Deed Books A – E, 1794-1809, p. 220. Deed Book D, p. 239. Test: John H. Owen, Christopher Irvin, J.P.
| | 250 Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Deed Books A – E, 1794-1809, p. 289. Deed Book D, p. 542.
| | 251 Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Deed Books A – E, 1794-1809, p. 374-375. Deed Book E, p. 311.
| | 252 Mary Bondurant Warren, 1800 Census of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, the only extant census of 1800 within the state of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, 1965), p. 7.
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