Georgia:  Elbert County:  Estate Records of Samuel Higginbotham
1803 - 1824

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Chandler Eavenson 
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Estate records of the Court of Ordinary, Elbert Co., GA reflect the
following in regard to the estate of Samuel Higginbotham: 

On 10 Aug 1803 and again on 16 Feb 1805 appraisers met to inventory
the estate of Samuel Higginbotham, deceased. In addition to hundreds
of items of farm equipment and household goods, some of the items
inventoried were: 31 head of cattle, 8 sheep, 51 hogs, 6 horses, 2
wagons, 4 bee hives, one set of blacksmith tools, a cotton saw gin, 
1 smooth gun, 1 British musket, 1 pistol, surveyors instruments, 
desk and bookcase, 6 beds, 11 chairs, 2 chests, 1 trunk, 1 seal
skin trunk, woman's saddle, 24 slaves, 300 acres of land including
the dwelling house, 200 acres of land purchased of Martin Turman, 
330 acres on the Beaverdam adjoining Thomas Oliver and 1 lot in
Elberton. Total value of above shown as $11,062. 

The estate was administered by his son John Satterwhite Higginbotham
with his final returns to the Court of Ordinary made in 1824. Estate
sales in March, 1805 reflected the following purchasers: William 
Fortson, Clary Higginbotham, George Turman, Blackley Higginbotham,
Jane Higginbotham, Samuel Higginbotham, Clabourn Sandidge, Thomas
Hilley, Nathan Bond, Jr., George Eavenson, Edward Brown, Thomas
Fortson, Jesse Fortson, Thomas S. Carter, Matthew Pulliam, Joseph
Pulliam, John Craft, John Penn, Durrett Stodghill, Thomas Smith, 
Jesse Edwards, William McCoy, Reuben McCoy, Peter Morrison, James
Higginbotham, William Higginbotham, Josiah Cook, William Holt, 
John Satterwhite, James Henderson, Reuben Ham, Stephen Rowsey, 
Thomas Maxwell, Jr., Benjamin Higginbotham, Peter Stubbs, Jacob
Lindsey, Henry Sewell, Beverley Greenwood, Beckam Dye, Charles
Carter, Mesheek Lowrey, Richard Fortson, Benjamin Fannin, Archer
Skinner, John Fannin, McCarter Oliver, Thomas Oliver, David
McCluskey, John Booth, William Bond, Isaac Ford, Thomas Stubbs.
Joel Butler, Reuben Satterwhite, F. Saller, E. Ware and John
S. Higginbotham. 

On 16 Feb 1805 one Samuel Higginbotham signed an affidavit showing
receipt of some property (horse and saddle, cow and calf, and 2 yews)
from the estate and in which said Samuel is described as "one of the 
legatees of Samuel Higginbotham, deceased." However, this Samuel was
not one of the people who received distributive shares from the 
estate, those being George Turman in right of his wife Vileta, 
Stephen Chatham in right of his wife Clary, William Fortson in right
of his wife Ann, George Green Higginbotham, Blackley Higginbotham and
Aaron Higginbotham. It is assumed that the Administrator John S.
Higginbotham, a son of Samuel, also received a distributive share
though no receipt was found. 

[Submitter's notes: Samuel Higginbotham (ca 1745-1803), son of Aaron
Higginbotham and Clara Graves of Amherst Co., VA, was married to Jane
Satterwhite, daughter of John and Ann Satterwhite of Drisdale Parish,
Caroline Co., VA and Essex Co., VA. In Amherst Co. Samuel served as a
Captain in the Revolutionary War, later rising to a Col. in the militia.
In Amherst Co. he was a deputy surveyor, deputy sheriff, magistrate,
vestryman of Christ Church and a processioner of land. In Elbert Co.
he served as a Justice of the Inferior Court, a member of the land
court, and was a delegate to the 1795 State Constitutional Convention.
Samuel's father Aaron Higginbotham was one of the children of a
Higginbotham couple who lived near the community of New Glasgow in
Amherst Co., Aaron's siblings being Moses, Joseph, Benjamin, John,
James and Rachel Higginbotham.]

Submitted by: Chandler Eavenson