From the Probate Files: Jeremiah Warren Part 17, Appraise & Apportion the Negroes, June 14-15, 1837

Five years to the day after the death of Jeremiah Warren, a Commission appointed by the Court met to determine the value* of the enslaved persons belonging to the estate along with the cash (notes) in the estate's account.and to work out a fair division of this property.

We the Commissioners agreeable to an order of the 
Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary Purposes, to us
directed have proceeded to appraise the negroes and
apportion the same as presented to us by the Exec's.
of Jeremiah Warren dec'd. also the notes of said estate.
        Appraisement of negroes June 14th 1837.
Negro man               Hal                                800.00
    "       "                  Jack                               800.00
    "       "                  Edmund                         800.00
    "       "                  Meredith                        800.00
    "       "                  Davy                              800.00
    "       "                  Anderson                       800.00
    "       "                  Abram  aged                  400.00
    "       "                  Tom  insane                     50.00
    "       Girl              Letha & Child                600.00
    "       woman       Lucy  aged                      150.00
    "       "                 Amy     "                         400.00
    "       girl             Caroline                          550.00
    "       Boy             Irwin                              550.00
                                          Forwarded      $ 7500.00

                      Amount Forwarded                               $ 7500.00               
  Negro girl                Fanny                                             275.00   
                                                                                        7750.00

Amount of Notes pr. return                                            8297.67
By Amount of notes returned but not
     charged in account                                                      783.58   
        Total Amount of Estate. Legatees 6)                 $16856.25
                    am't. of each L[eg]acy                             $2809.37
                                                                                =========
Heirs of Jas. Warren  To man Jack             800.00
                                    "  Tom insane           50.00
                                   "  boy Irwin              550.00
                                   "  am't. notes          1364.48       2764.48
Polly Warren              " man Hal                800.00
                                   "  Woman Lucy       150.00
                                   "  girl Fanny             275.00
 (► A)**                     "  am't. notes          1573.00       2845.84

Heirs of Jesse Warren  " man Edmund       800.00
                                   "  Woman Amy        400.00

                                   "  am't. notes          1644.32       2844.32

Lott Harton                " man Meredith        800.00
                                   " girl Letha & child  600.00
 (► B)**                    "  am't. of notes        1147.18      2621.44                             
William Warren         " man Davy               800.00
                                  "  girl Caroline          550.00
                                  "  am't. notes           1727.18       3077.18
Robert Warren          " man Anderson        800.00
                                  "    "   Abram            400.00
                                  "  am't. notes           1634.42       2834.42
  (► C)**                                                                    $ 16793.68
       Amount of Choice & Stemburger notes undivided     70.93
               Am't. of the several Legacies                      $16864.61

We the Commissioners agreeable to an Order
of the Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary Purposes
do hereby certify that we have proceeded to divide
and apportion the estate of Jeremiah Warren dec'd.  

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according to the Last Will and testament of said Estate
as presented to us by the executors of said Estate
in the manner and form as will be found upon
the examination of the foregoing statement.
     Given under our hands this 25th day of June
      1837                                 Wilkins Smith}
                                               Geo Rives      }
                                               Wyatt Harper }

Georgia Hancock County
     I do hereby certify that Geo Rives, Edmund L.
Bass, William Hurt and Wyatt Harper were duly
qualified before they entered upon the discharge
of their duties. June 14th 1837
                                              Wilkins Smith J.I.C.

I certify that Wilkins ^Smith^ was duly qualified before
me this 14th day of June 1837.         Edmund L. Bass J.T.


The foregoing entry in the Probate Court's records is the last one I've been able to find for Jeremiah Warren's estate either in the general index or by paging through other online records at FamilySearch so we don't know when the actual division took place.

*My post covering the original inventory of Jeremiah's estate is here.
**Marginal notes: Note A = Error 107.84; Note B = Error 74.26; Note C. Error
***Lott Harton was the husband of Jeremiah's sister Sarah.

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From the Probate files: Jeremiah Warren Part 16, Account Current, May 24, 1837

This time John Graybill and Jesse G. Butts, the executors of my fourth great uncle Jeremiah Warren's estate in Hancock County, Georgia. filed a report covering two years.

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Account of the hire of the negroes belonging to the Estate 
of Jeremiah Warren dec'd. for the year 1836 and 1837, to wit,
1836    Hal                                                            Wm. Warren              120.00
            Meredith                                                    Robt. Warren            120.00
            Anderson                                                   Ingram Bass              120.00
            Dave                                                          Jas. Wilcoxen            120.00
            Edmund                                                     Jesse G. Butts            120.00
            Jack (11 months)                                       John Graybill             115.00
            Abram Amy & 3 children                         Dav'd Amos               150.00
            Lucy                                                          Wm. Warren                35.00
            Lethe                                                         Mary Warren               50.00
            Old man Tom victuals & clothes              Wm Warren
            " small girl             do                               Graybill & Butts _________950.00
1837    Hal                                                            Wm. Warren              175.00
            Meredith                                                           do                       175.00
            Anderson                                                   Robert Petigrew       175.00
            Dave                                                          Robert Warren           175.00
            Edmund                                                     Jas. Wilcoxen            175.00
            Jack                                                           John Graybill             175.00
            Abram                                                       Jesse M. Warren         120.00
            Amy & 2 child'n (1died)                           Robert Warren              87.50
            Lucy                                                          Wm. Warren                 35.00
            Lethe & child                                                    do                         50.00
            Old Tom     victuals & clothes                          do                          -- --
            a small girl             do                               Graybill & Butts _________1342.00

From this account we learn that one of Amy's children died sometime during the period covered and that Lethe had a child. Old (crazy) Tom was still hanging on. The best explanation I can think of for the "small girl" being maintained by John Graybill and Jesse G. Butts is that one of the enslaved women (either Mary or Pat) living on the plantation Jeremiah set aside for the seven persons he hoped to have legally freed had a baby and this was the means of accounting for it. I'm hoping we'll find out more in subsequent probate records.

As to the people hiring the slaves belonging to the estate, most are familiar names but there are several new ones: Ingram Bass and Robert Petigrew. These two men, both born about 1812, were also residents of Hancock County.

                                                    

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county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

Georgia Hancock County.
     John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Ex'rs. of &c. of Jeremiah
Warren dec'd.being duly sworn say that the above acc't.
hiring of negroes is just & true.
     Sworn to & subscribed before                               John Graybill
     me this 24th day May 1837.                                  Jesse G. Butts           
     Henry Rogers C.C.O.          

John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Ex'rs. of &c.
1836      In acct. with the Estate of Jere'h Warren dec'd.                 Dr
May 2   To balance due Estate pr. acc't. rend'd.                            4950.55
Jan'y 1    " cash rec'd. F. Scotts note $348  In't. $145.42-1/2         493.62-1/2
1837
May 24   " R. Wilcoxen note $271.81  In't. $29.50                        301.31
               " cash rec'd. Wm. Choice's note 8.76  In't. 280                 11.56
               " Hire of negroes for 1836                                950.00
               "    do   "     do       "   1837                             1342.50  2292.50
                                                                                                    $8049.54-1/2
                                                 Cr
               By cash paid Dr William S. Lightfoot                    #1       13.50
                "     "       "    Tax 1834, 1835 & 1836                   2&3     11.06
                " amt of Macon money found in the house of }
                  dec'd & charged in our first acc't. current      }             260.00
               " commiis. on receipts above $3098.99-1/2  2-1/2 pr'cent  77.47
1837       "      do     " payment  "     $24.56     "   "   "          .61        78.08
May 24   " Balance due estate                                                     7686.90-1/2
                                                                                                    $8049.54-1/2                                          Georgia Hancock County.
     John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Ex'rs. of &c. of Jeremiah
Warren dec'd.being duly sworn say that the above account
current is just & true.
Sworn to & subscribed before                               John Graybill
me this 24th day May 1837.                                  Jesse G. Butts           
Henry Rogers C.C.O.                                                                      





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Working on Wednesday: Jeremiah Warren Part 7, A List of Money, Notes & Accounts

As I explained in last week's look at the probate records of Great Uncle Jeremiah Warren, the inventory of his belongings was followed by a list of money owed him and cash he had at the time of his death.

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county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

Because this is a continuation of the inventory at the top of the page we find two paragraphs attesting that the appraisers had been duly sworn:

I do hereby certify that the above appraisers were

sworn to perform their duty as appraisers according to

law this twenty fifth day of September 1832

Wilkins Smith J.P.

And because Wilkins Smith was also one of the appraisers:

I do hereby certify that Wilkins Smith on of the a-

bove appraisers was sworn to before me perform his

duty as appraiser according to law this first day

of October 1832

Henry Rogers, J.P.

A list of money Notes & accounts belonging to the

estate of Jeremiah Warren dec'd.

Notes Presley Harper's made the 20. May 1830 due the          }

          first of January 1832 for                                                 }  1103.02

          credited with $76.40 c on the                                         }

          April 1832                                                                      }

Wm Warrens Note   made 2 February 1829 due the 25th Decem- }

                                ber 1829                                                          } 216.00

Federck Scots note   made 10 July 1831 due 4th February 1832       27.84

Federick Scots do     do 4 February 1829 due 12 mos after date       348.00

Reason Willcoxens do    made 20th so 1832 due 1st Sept 1832       271.81

Andrew Edward's do    made 7 January 1832 due 1 after date         231.59

Tully Choice's  do      made 2nd    do         do    do     do     do          24.00

Mary Edwards do      made 4th     do         do    do     do     do          14.00

Wm Choice's   do      made 17th   do         do    do     do     do          8.76

A. Slaughter & C Labuzan do made 14th May 1831  do   do   do   do  722.03

   Do                     Do           "  made 31. July 1832    do     do        }

                                                with interest from 19.th Ap;ril last  } 1022.28

Michael Graybills do    made 29th of August 1831 due 25. Dec. 1831    52.66

  Do              Do     do    made 2 June 1831       do     "     Do        25.00

  Do              Do     do    made 2   do      do        "       "      "          25.00

  Do              Do     do    made 2   do      do        "       "      "          15.60

John Roser's note    made 12 March     do due 2 days after date     20.00

John J. Berry's do    made 12 April do due 1 January 1832           76.50

Epps W Warren  do  made 31 Dec 1830 due one day after date     75.00

Amt carried forward

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amt brot forward

James Bass' note   made 25 January 1832 due 25 Dec 1832         25.45

Thos C Butts do   made 13 March 1830  due 25 of do 1830        20.40

   Do       Do             "     13   do       do    "      25     do  1830       20.00

Edmund Butts' do   made 11 September 1830  " 25  do 1830       40.44

Money found in the possession of the Dec'd

Twenty two hundred and forty six dollars 25/100 Two         1986 25

hundred and Sixty of which was on the Macon* bank              260.25

Bad notes

John R. Ball's note   made 7th June 1826 due 2 day after date     20.00

John P Thwaitt's  "   made 18 Oct 1823   due  1   do   do    do    100.00

George V Brodman's  made 21  do  1826  due 3     do     do         18.00

Peter Arnold        made 25 march 1830   due 25 dec 1830        32.97

James Warren      made 20 March 1819.  due 25. dec  1819     400.00

                           Credit 15 January 1820  70.

                                do   13. April 1822.    177.78
an acpt on Wyatt Harper for Goods__2 1/2 bushels of, at    1.25

Georgia Hancock County
Jesse G. Butts one of the executors of the last will and testa-
ment of Jeremiah Warren dec'd being duly sworn says that
the above & foregoing return of money, notes &c belonging
to the estate of the said dec'd, is true & correct 
Sworn to & Subscribed before                    }      Jesse G. Butts
me this 1st Dec. 1832                                  }
James H Jones C.C.O                                  }


While it's obvious that Great Uncle Jeremiah was a wealthy man, it's not clear whether he was acting as a banker for his neighbors. There's no mention of that kind of role in his obituary which I transcribed here.

We're not done with Jeremiah Warren's estate--the executors were required to file annual accounts with the Probate Court so we can find out more about what happened the years before the final settlement.

*Presumably this refers to Macon County, Georgia, and not Macon County, Alabama, which was much farther away.


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