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Notes for William Sims
William Sims lived in Virginia and also Georgia and was granted various tracks of land. In Richmond and Columbia Counties of Georgia he acquired more than 9000 acres of land. From Scott's History of Orange County, published in Richmond, Virginia in 1907, on page 60, William's name appears.
"If Orange County ever sent an organized command to the French and Indian Wars, no record of it has been found. The records do disclose that sundry of her citizens went to the Wars but always from another county. Among these names is that of Ambrose Powell who was a commissioned officer and, in 1757, William Sims appears as a soldier in Hogg's Rangers, Commanded by Ambrose Powell, Gent., staff officer in the Virginia forces." From the Auditer's Journal; August 4, 1782, on file in the Comptroller General's office at Savannah, Georgia is the following note: "The United States due William Sims for hire of a horse for seventy days in the Expedition against East Florida in support of Mad Anthony Wayne in his raid on Florida, 1778, five pounds and five shillings."
Augusta is now in Columbia County, Georgia, but when William lived there
it was Richmond County, Georgia.
William's Revolutionary War service: He served under Col. James McNeil who gave a certificate, April 7, 1784, upon which William asked for Bounty in Washington County and his name is listed in the certified list of Georgia Troops.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM SIMS
Registered May 3, 1815
"In the name of God Amen. I, William Sims senr. of the State of Georgia and County of Columbia, being weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament and do dispose of the property which it has pleased the Almighty to help me with in manner and form following,
First- It is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid by my executors herein after named.
Item- I give and bequeath to my son, Mann Sims, One Dollar to him and his heirs forever.
Item- I give and bequeath to my daughter, Ann Hendly Cowen, One Dollar to her and her heirs forever.
Item- I give and bequeath to my daughter, Peggy Hanson, One Dollar to her and her heirs forever.
Item- I give and bequeath to my son, Lenny Sims, One Dollar to him and his heirs forever.
Item- I give and bequeath to my executors herein after mentioned all the rest and residue of my real and personal Estate during the life of my daughter, Aggy Sims, in trust upon the terms, stipulations and conditions, to wit that the whole of my real and personal Estate shall be kept together during the life of my said daughter Aggy and that the maintenance and the surplus if any, shall be applied to the general improvement of my Estate at the discretion of my executors. It is also my will and desire that my daughter-in-law, Mary Penn Sims, have the care and direction of my daughter Aggy during her life.
Item- After the death of my daughter Aggy, I give and bequeath the tract of land whereon I now live, containing one hundred and fifty acres (more or less) to my grandson William Sims, (son of Abner Sims) and if he should die without heirs then in that case I do give and bequeath to the next oldest surviving son of my son Abner Sims to him and his heirs forever.
Item- All the rest and residue of my Estate of every description I give and bequeath (after the death of my daughter Aggy Sims) to my daughter-in-law, Mary Penn Sims, widow of Abner Sims to her and her heirs forever.
Lastly- I do constitue and appoint my friends, John W. Smith and Peter Crawford, Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking and annulling all other will or wills, heretofore made by me and only ratifying and confirming this to by my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of March, 1813.
Signed, sealed and pronounced by the testator as his last will and testament in our presence, Thomas Parker, L.B. Smith and Charles T. Bealle." Signed William Sims, Senr.
This will filed in Will Book H, pp.335-336, Columbia County, Georgia.
ANCESTORS OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS--TSDAR
page 1935.
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