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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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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.
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