| Will of Margaret Tate In the name of God, Amen. I, Margaret Tate, of the county of Baldwin and State of Alabama being sound in mind but not in body and feeling the uncertainty of life do hereby revoking all others make this my last will and testament. Imprimis. I commend my soul to God trusting in the merits of my savior for my salvation in the world to come. 2nd I commend my body to christian burial. 3rd To the heirs of my beloved daughter MARY D. SAUNDERS, I give and bequeath one negro man Sam, one negro woman Maria, one negro girl Amy, one negro boy Sam, one negro boy Daniel, one negro girl Perry, one negro boy Harry and all my swamp cattle to her heirs forever and it is hereby understood and intended that the aforesaid MARY D. SAUNDERS shall have the right and privilege of rising and enjoying all the immunities appurtenances, advantages and privileges which are and may arise from said property so long as she may live. 4th To my beloved daughter MARGARET STAPLES and her heirs, I give and bequeath one negro man named Job, one negro girl named Silva, and child, and it is hereby understood that the aforesaid Margaret Staples is to take the above named negroes at a fair value to satisfy a note that Mr. JASON STAPLES holds against me, after the note is satisfied the balance is to go as part of her share of my estate. I also give and bequeath one negro woman named Betsy and her child named Jonab, one negro boy named Sandy, one negro boy named Twine, one negro boy named Tobe, one negro girl named Malissa, and her two children, one negro man named Ned, one negro boy named Harry, one negro girl named Patience to her and her heirs forever. 5th To the children of my beloved son WILLIAM T. POWELL, I give and bequeath one negro man named William one negro man named Aaron, one negro man named Cuff, one negro boy named Stephen, one negro woman Elonisa, and her four children Siky, Daphney, Chloe and Tab, one negro woman named Pop~ My plantation situated and described as follows: The South East fraction quarter of section nineteen, in Township four of range three east containing one Hundred & fifty acres and sixty five hundredths of an acre. The west half of the north- west quarter of section nineteen, in township four range three east, containing eighty acres. The east subdivision of the west fraction of the north half, west of the Alabama River of section nineteen in Township four of range three east containing one hundred and fifty two acres one wagon, one ox cart and four oxen, all of my Hogs, all the farming utensils, five of my best mules. Eighty acres of pine land situated and described as follows: Township four range three east the north east quarter of the south west quarter of section thirty four, four large steers suitable for Oxen, all of the corn & fodder now on my Plantation, and it is hereby understood and intended that the aforesaid WILLIAM T. POWELL shall have the right and privilege of using and enjoying all the immunities appurtenances, advantages and privileges which are and may arise from said property so long as he may live but he the said WILLIAM T. POWELL shall not sell, give, grant or convey or dispose of any of said property under any pretence whatever. 6th To my beloved daughter JOSEPHINE B. DREISBACK and her heirs. I give and bequeath one negro man named Dick, one negro woman Bella, and her four children named Pheobe, Hardy, Dick and Mary, one negro girl named Rose, one negro woman named Amy and her three children named Tina, Milly, and Fanny, one negro woman named Flora, one old negro man named Jonah, it is my wish the old man named Jonah shall do no hard work. I wish my daughter Josephine to have my watch and all of my household furniture, my Carriage and old Horse to her and her heirs forever. 7th To my beloved Grand daughter MARY STAPLES, I give and bequeath, one negro woman named Clander and three of her children named Alex, Philip and Dilsy to her and her heirs forever. 8th To my beloved Grand daughter JOSEPHINE STAPLES I give and bequeath one negro boy named Or to her and her heirs forever. 9th To my beloved Grand Son ROBERT POWELL, I give and bequeath one Roan Mare to him and his heirs forever. 10th It is my request that Hardy and his wife, Pheobe shall be set at liberty. I do not wish them to be slaves after my death. I wish them moved over to the place I purchased from THOMAS SAUNDERS. I do not wish that place sold under any considera- tion whatever. I wish him to have four cows and calves, and the two steers he is breaking for oxen at this time. I wish my son or Mr. Dreisback to act as his agent during life. 11th And it hereby understood and intended that my daughter MARY D. SAUNDERS, have the right and privileges of using and cultivating one hundred acres of my plantation land which I have given to my son WILLIAM T. POWELL, the land which I wish her to have to right of using and cultivating lays above the Gin House, after the death of the said MARY D. SAUNDERS, the land shall revert to the children of my son WILLIAM T. POWELL. 12th And I also give and bequeath to the said MARY D. SAUNDERS thirty head of sheep. 13th I request that my stock of cattle one wagon and what mules may be left after my son gets his number out to be sold to the highest bidder the proceeds of which I wish applied to the payments of my debts any amount that may be left from the above sale after my debts are paid I wish it to be given to Mrs. ROSAHAH SHOMO. 14th I do hereby appoint my son in law J. D. DREISBACK my executor and administrator to settle up my estate. 15th It is my wish that my old negro woman Siky shall remain with my daughter Josephine during her life. In testimony whereof I this day set my hand and seal this the twenty eighth day of Nov in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Margaret Tate Witnesses J. W. SHOMO J. D. WEATHERFORD State of Alabama} Baldwin County} Personally appeared before me PATRICK BYRNE, Judge of the Probate Court of Baldwin County & State aforesaid J. D. WEATHERFORD one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Instrument of writing and states on oath that he was requested to sign and was present at the signing of the Instrument of writing by J. W. SHOMO a subscribing witness and that Margaret Tate acknowledged the same to be her last Will and Testament and that the said Margaret Tate was in sound mind & memory Subscribed & sworn to before me this 27th day of March A. D. 1851 Patrick Byrne Judge Probate Admitted to Probate 27th March A. D. 1851 Patrick Byrne Judge | ||
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Category Archives: McGillivray
McGillivray addressed the naivete of Creek chiefs – “David Tate : Origins”
Four years after the Treaty of Paris, the Lower Creeks met in council – April 10, 1787. McGillivray addressed the naivete of Creek chiefs, while another group was held hostage by the Americans, to “run the line, as agreed,” with the following remarks:
It is not so long since, but you must remember how one of these Powers made violent efforts even upon us, the white people, their children. But to tell you what is done by others of them upon people of your color, towards the mid-day sun, would fill you with horror. Ought we not, therefore, to grasp one another with a strong arm of friendship, the more easily to repel these foreigners?i [emphasis added]
Evidently, McGillivray was sensitive to the race war waged by the colonists against Indians.
After years of tit-for-tat skirmishes and depredations, the United States decided to sue for peace. Commissioners were sent into Creek country to seduce McGillivray to agree to a cessation of hostilities. In 1790, McGillivray took a coterie of Creeks to New York, the seat of U.S. government, to negotiate a treaty.ii That exclusive group of individuals included his nephews, heirs to his wealth and political position. In particular, David Tate, son of his maternal half sister, Sehoy, accompanied him. Ten-year-old Tate was impressed with the pomp and circumstance accorded his first trip outside the Creek Nation. McGillivray was feted at the personal residence of Henry Knox, Secretary of War. At the conclusion of negotiations, young David was left in the care of Knox.
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David Tate was educated at Philadelphia under a secret article of the 1790 Treaty.
i“The Library of Congress,” A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 – 1875,” American State Papers, Senate, 1st Congress, 1st Session , Indian Affairs, Vol. 1, page 22. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=007/llsp007.db&recNum=23 (Accessed: May 5, 2016).
iiLinda Langley, “The Tribal Identity of Alexander McGillivray: A Review of the Historical And Ethnographic Data, Louisiana History” The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 231-239.
iii“An open door policy,” HenryKnoxMuseum.org http://www.knoxmuseum.org/henry-knox/the-house/ (Accessed: May 5, 2016).
ivLawrence M. Hauptman and Heriberto Dixon, “Cadet David Moniac: A Creek Indian’s Schooling at West Point, 1817-1822, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 152, No. 3, September 2008.pg. 330.
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