To my wife Rebecca all estate real and personal for raising
and educating the children. 

To eldest son Charles had the land where I now live, slaves 
etc. 

To son Wm. Hudson Tait, slaves James, Lewis, Milley and 
Randolph. 
To daughter Nancy Coloson, slaves Tom, Webster, Buck, 
Barbary, Betty, Hager and her child for lie at her death 
to her children. 

To daughter Barbara Oliver slaves  Bob. Winny and her three 
children. 
To grandson Hudson Ware, slave Gilbert. 

To daughters, Pasty, Louisa, America, and Charity and son 
James Miller as they come of age or marry, Slaves. Calls 
these his youngest children. 

Sons Charles and Wm. Hudson Tait Excrs. 

Signed Jan. 30, 1798 Nathaniel Allen, Obediah Jones, Test

Codicil June 7, 1798. To daughter Barabra Oliver, tract of 
land on which William Winn now lives adj. Chas. Cosby and 
Abraham Colson. David Hudson, Robert Cosby, Robert L. Tait, 
Test

Source:  Georgia: Elbert County: Will of James Tait, 30 June 
1798, pg. 41

USGenWeb Archives, This file was contributed by: Dixie Tait 
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