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Manza. To my son Ben Franklin at lawful age or marriage my negro girl Clary. Whereas I expect my wife is with child, if it is so, the child to be made equal with the others. Executor: Cuthbert Collier. /s/ John Hardeman. Witnesses: Mat. Rainey, Salley Collier, Doritha Raffity.284
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| | Executors Sale. Will be sold on the first day of December next at the late residence of John Hardeman, deceased, in Oglethorpe County. The tract of land whereon the said deceased lived, consisting of 372 acres, more or less, with good improvements thereon; also, all the personal estate of said deceased, consisting of negroes, horses, cattle, hogs, corn and fodder, household and kitchen furniture, and other articles too tedious to men. Cuthbert Collier, executor, 16 September 1807.285
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| | In Oglethorpe County, in the 1807 Land Lottery Eligibles: Nancy Hardeman, widow. And, Betsy, Thomas, John, Robert, Benjamin F., and Isaac Hardeman, minors and orphans of John Hardeman, deceased.286 In the 1807 Georgia Land Lottery, John Hardiman’s orphans of Oglethorpe County, Beasley’s District, drew Lot 22 in the 20th District of Wilkinson County.287
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| | John Hardeman’s widow, Nancy “Ann” Collier Hardeman, married second, 27 July 1807, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, to George Menefee.288
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| | George Menefee came to Georgia from Franklin County, Virginia. On 22 January 1791, George Menefee of Franklin County, Virginia, bought two 287 ½ acre tracts of land on Mulberry Fork of Oconee River in Franklin County, Georgia, from William Walker of Wilkes County, Georgia.289
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| 284 Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Will Book A, p. 137. Will of John Hardeman.
| | 285 Faye Stone Poss, Wilkes County (Washington), Georgia, Newspaper Abstracts, 1802, 1805-1809 (Snellville, Georgia, 2003), p. 166. Monitor, 28 September 1807 issue.
| | 286 Warren, Georgia Genealogist, Oglethorpe County, 1807 Land Lottery Eligibles.
| | 287 Lucas, The Second or 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia, p. 61.
| | 288 Smith, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Marriages, p. 187. George Menefee to Nancy Hardeman, 27 July 1807.
| | 289 Martha Walters Acker, Deeds of Franklin County, Georgia, 1784-1826 (Birmingham, Alabama: 1976), p. 20. Franklin County, Deed Book H, p. 25-26. The first tract had been surveyed for James Thompson in 1785. The second tract had been surveyed for Thomas Fuqua in 1785. Menefee paid £50 for each tract. Both deeds were witnessed by Walton Harris and Jacob Early, J.P.
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