Notes:

According to the 1850 Slave and Agricultural Censuses of Cherokee County, Georgia, Nicholas Waddill owned one female slave aged 18 years, 60 acres of improved land, and 60 acres of unimproved land, 2 horses, $650 worth of farming implements and machinery, 4 milk cows, 3 other cattle, 14 swine, 100 bushels of wheat, 500 bushels of Indian corn, 100 bushels of sweet potatoes, and 50 lbs of butter.
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Georgia }
Cherokee County }

Know all men by these presents that we Nicholas Waddill, John Meser, James Adkins, & Birdwell Hill are held and firmly bound unto the honorable Justices of the Inferior Court setting ass a court of Ordinary and their successor in the Just and full sum of Seven Hundred Dollars for the payment of which sum to the said jusstices of the Inferior setting as a court of Ordinary and their successors in office in bind ourselves and heirs executors and administrators jointly and severely firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this Fifth May 1851.

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said Nicholas Waddill is this day appointed Guardian over the person and property of maria Flanagan Sumter formerly Mariah Waddill is now of insane mind and memory now if the said Nicholas Waddill do well and truly demean himself as Guardian as aforesaid agreeable to the letter of Guardianship having benn dated herewith and agreeable to law in such case made and provided then the above obligation to be void due to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed sealed and acknowledged in this court. } T.C. Maddox } N. Waddill, J. H. Meser, James Adkins, Birdwell Hill
Recorded June 23, 1853

Source: Cherokee County Georgia, Record of Wills/Estate Book 1847-1866, Page 39
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2 Will Notices (in 1848 and 1856) of Nicholas Waddill "Waddle" can be found in Book 2, Cherokee County Wills.

Nicholas married STAPP Sally Sarah on 15 Oct 1848 in Cherokee County, Georgia. Sally (daughter of STAPP John I and UNKNOWN Chaney) was born about 1813 in North Carolina; died in in Alabama?. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

DEED RECORD BOOK, TALLADEGA COUNTY, ALABAMA

19th January, 1860. John Dial and wife Sarah (Stapp) Dial, sold to Thomas R. Belleu 120 acres of land as follows: SE1/4 of SW1/4 & NE1/4 OF SE1/4 & SE1/4 OF NE1/4 all land lying in Township No. 16, Range 5 East, Section 17. This land was sold for $500.00.

Notes:

The 1826 Georgia Land Lottery has John Stapp in Capt. Moor's District, Number 272, District 8, Section 1.

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FORSYTH COUNTY LAND DEEDS, BOOK D

This indenture made and entered into this twenty ninth day of June in the year of [our] Lord Eightenn hundred and thirty six between John Stapp of the County and State aforesaid of the one part and William Martin of the County of Forsyth and state aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said John Stapp for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the siad William Martin at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed and do by these presents grant bargain and sell and convey unto the said William Martin, his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of Land containing forty acres situate lying and being the second district of the first section of Cherokee County now Forsyth County and State aforesaid known by the number Four Hundred and Twenty (420) to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land unto him the said William Martin his heirs and assigns tog

Hardy Strickland & Samuel Edmondson John Stapp (Seal)

State of Georgia, Forsyth County
Personally came before me Mr Samuel Edmondson who being duly sworn saith that he saw John Stapp sign the within deed for the purpose therein mentioned and also saw Hardy Strickland subscribe his name as a witness and myself was a witness likewise sworn to and subscribed beofre me this 7th day of January 1837

WW Vaughan, J.P., Samuel Edmondson. Recorded 10th January, 1837

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(I wasn't sure which John Stepp/Stapp this was, so I have included it with both John Sr. and John Jr.)

Court December Term 1843

Wm J Winn heirs )
vs. ) Case
John Stepp )

The defendant John Stepp according to law and appeared in Court. It is ordered by the court that he be permitted to Swear (hard to read) to said Schedule agreeable & that he be discharged.

John married UNKNOWN Chaney in North Carolina?. Chaney was born about 1789 in Tennessee; died between 1860 and 1870 in Saint Clair County, Alabama; was buried between 1860 and 1870 in Saint Clair County, Alabama?. [Group Sheet]

Gholson married PENNINGTON Alice on 23 Jul 1782 in Wilkes or Burke County, North Carolina. Alice was born in 1759. [Group Sheet]