| The Inferior Court for Ordinary Purposes Minutes for Morgan County are the key to the estate records. The original books for 1808-1822 and 1822-1834, abstracted in this book, had no indexes at all. It was necessary to search each of the 885 pages. These records now have an index to every name, subject, and locality in this book. The Inferior Court for Ordinary Purposes Minutes includes appointment of administrators, qualification of executors & administrators, appointment for guardians for minor children who owned property, appointment of guardians for free persons of color, appointment of guardians for insane persons, children bound out as apprentices, money allowed from the court for the car of crippled, decrepit, and aged persons, divisions of estates, dower allotment for widows of deceased persons, permission to sell property of deceased persons, permission to move an estate from Morgan Co. to another county or from another county to Morgan Co., permission for an estate to be closed, and more. The clerk made an entry in the Minutes when each Return was made on an estate. It is possible to determine when an estate was opened and when it was closed. This makes it easier to locate entries in the Return Books to find more receipts from heirs, and find appraisements, inventories, and sales regarding persons who died without a will. There are 189 wills in Will Books A & B. All details have been included. Using the Wills and Inferior Court Minutes (with the previously published Morgan County Deed Books A-G, 1808-1820) makes it possible to prove almost all of the heirs of persons who died in Morgan County before 1834. - United States - Georgia - Morgan |
