Something About Sarah...?
Question about this Sarah... Is the Sarah listed in the 1793 Headright/Bounty Grant Book 1756-1909 the same Sarah listed in the following will?" She lists 3 brothers John & Jeremiah,
and William H. Streetman. Is this "our" William H. Streetman?Will of Sarah Streetman
Source: Lucas, Jr., Reverend Silas Emmett (Compiler). (1977). Some Georgia County Records Vol. I, Being Some of the Legal Records of Columbia, Hancock, Warren, and Jefferson, Counties, GA. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press.
p. 160, Items 333-334
Made November 3, 1849, probated September 1, 1851.
Two brothers John Streetman and Jeremiah Streetman…my sister Martha Rogers and her children…brother William H. Streetman and my four sisters, Harriet Rogers, Elizabeth Streetman, Ruth Farmer and Sarepta Streetman…my friend and
relative William U. Young, Exr.,
Witness: E.B.Hooks, Moses Brinson, Jr. , Catherine Corbett.
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Note that Moses Brinson, Jr. a witness to the above will of Sarah Streetman. His father Moses Brinson, SR. has a will (see below) which mentions Streetmans as nearby residents: " William H. Streetman and John Streetman are witnesses to this will in 1850.
from http://www.chrysalis.org/stevem/j1bk04.htm
[pg 159][Jefferson Co. Wills, Book A, 1777-1893]
Pages 319-322: Will of Moses Brinson, Sr. Made Feb. 18, 1848, pro-
bated Feb. 4, 1850...being of advanced age...my grandson Henry T.
Brinson...my son Moses Brinson...to Henry Stephens, husband of Sarah
A. Stephens, formerly Sarah Brinson, my daughter...friend James T.
Bothwell...my granddaughter Margarett E. Pritchett...my daughter Anna
Freeman...grandson Isaac Brinson...land adj. Richard Smith and est. of
Wm. Streetman...daughter Rebecca J. Jordan...land where John Freeman
now lives...land adj. Isaac Freeman Connel and others...land adj.
John Way & Thos Matthews...to Benjamin Philps and to each of his three
children by my grandaughter Nancy...Moses, Margaret & Sophia Jane...
to son Moses Brinson, Jr. land adj. Elam Young, J. Connel and another
tract, part of the Pope tract on south side of the Quaker Road. adj.
John Wren...at the death of Amelia Farmer, my step-daughter...wife
Apsabeth...Moses Brinson Jr., William W. Young, and John Wren, Exrs...
Moses Brinson Sr. (X). Wit: William H. Streetman, John Streetman,
Walter Parker, Amazon A. Brinson. Codicil: In consequence of the death
of Benjamin Philip...to Isaac Freeman, son of Anna Freeman...my wife
and her daughter now Mrs. Jourdow. Wit: Cabal A. Wright, Walter Parker,
Amazon A. Brinson.
With all the names found in these documents, we should be able to trace this Sarah Streetman, who lists a brother named William. This could very well be "our" William Streetman, but then you know how many sons were named William in the Streetman family!!?? Countless numbers.