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Estate of Brooks, James Sr. decd. -- 1828 1) Paschal Brooks and Beving Brooks, order appt. admn. 1828 and appraisers Minute Bk A-208 2) July 9, 1828 - Administrator bond Bond Bk B - 241 3) July 9, 1829 - Inventory and Appraisement - Wills 9-67 4) July 9, 1829 - Receipt of Legatees, Wills 9-68 (This does not seem to be receipt of legatees, but a list of notes and debtors -JSB) 5) --- --- 1828 _____ Personalty - Minutes A 217 6) Sept. 16, 1828 Sale Bill Personalty Wills 9-69 7) Dec. 30, 1828 Sale Bill Personalty Wills 9-72 8) --- ____ 1829 Leave to Sell Realty Minutes A - 235 9) Jan. 9, 1830 Annual Returns Wills 9-75 10) Mar 31, 1831 Annual Returns Wills 9-75 11) ______ 1833 Annual Returns Wills 9-75 (Item 1 above) Jasper Co. microfilm read at the Georgia archives Sept. 1998, actual instruments checked at Jasper Co. courthouse on Oct. 8, 1998-JSB) Drawer 71, Roll 31, negative film hard to read. (but documents at courthouse were faded and difficult to read also. Minutes Book A, page 208 - Jasper Court of Ordinary, July term 1828. It appearing to the court that Paschal Brooks and Beving Brooks has made applications for letters of adm. on the estate of James Brooks Sr., decd, of said county according to law. It is therefore ordered by the court that the said Paschal Brooks and Beving Brooks . . . and they are duly appt. the adm. on said estate by giving bond and security in the amount of___ hundred dollars and that James Brooks Jr. and Robert Bickerstaff be considered sufficient security in said court; that Jonathan Adams, Arthur Lawson, Thomas Huff, David Treadwell (?) and Thomas Hairston? be appt. appraisers of said estate. (Item 5 above) Minutes Book A, page 217? -Paschal Brooks, admr of the Estate of James Brooks, decd., having made application to the court for leave to sell the Negroes belonging to said estate and having made it sufficiently apparent that it is necessary to sell the same for the purpose of paying the debts due from said estate . . . It is therefore ordered that the said adm. . . . have to sell the following negroes belonging to said estate, to wit: Nancy and her two children, Solomon and Rachel, Amy and two children Maria and Warren, and B-- --. . . and at such time and place as he may think most consistent with the law ... (Item 6 above) Negative microfilm, Drawer 36, Box 13, Georgia Archives. Jasper County Appraisements, Sale Bills and Returns, Vol. 9-10, 1828-1849. Will Book 9, pg. 67 - July 1828 - Inventory and app. Itemized list of the goods and chattels of James Brooks, decd., including negroes valued at $1700. Total personal estate valued at $2024.60. Will Book 9, p. 68 - Inventory included these items - Fifa on Zachariah Wilkinson for $31.20 a note on John Sparks for $120.44 a note on Paschal Brooks for $54.00 a note on B. Brooks for $6.25 a note on John Sparks and Beving Brooks for $7.12 ? a note on Benjamin Moody for $4.00 ? Signed by appraisers - Thomas Hairston, Thos. S. Huff, and Arthur (X) Lawson Will Book 9, p. 68 - 16 Sept 1828 items sold at public sale to these people: Paschal Brooks James Brooks John C. Patterson J. D. Brantley A. Philips Paschal Traylor J. G. Bullard Sarah Sparks Beving Brooks William Rainey Robert Bickerstaff Wilson Pugh Esther Traylor Andrew Bickerstaff Andrew Morris James Matthews Whitson Pugh Hiram Brooks James Higgins Thomas Hairston John B. Slaughter Drury Couch Jesse Garrett David Tredwell G. D. Brantley Elias Huff Barney Wise Phillip Burrow Marion Turner Seaborn Jones Another sale on 30 Dec. 1828 at 12 mo. Credit. Corn and feed were sold to Nathan T. Musick Jr, Dunston Banks, Rid E. Johnson, William Chuh (cq) Willis Whatley, David Cardin, William Fears, Alfred Long--?, Hartwell Jones, Alfred Forgason, William Couch, James Brooks, and others. Sale of negroes - Jan. 1829.-boy named Ben sold to Jas. Brooks, Nancy and her two children sold to Robert Bickerstaff, negro girl named Juda to Paschal Brooks. Adm. list of expenses included expenses for selling land in Campbell. Mentions Lot 59 in N. Dist. Originally Coweta(?), now Crawford, sold on credit 12 months from 1st Tuesday in August 1829. Report given Jan. 18?? Debts included: To J. G. Bullard, guardian, J. G. Bullard in right of his wife. Will Bk 9, p. 78 - Will of James Bullard-WD 5 May 1826, Wp Nov. 1828. Leaves 2 negroes to Jeremy G. Bullard, negro woman to heirs of sister Elizabeth Horsely Other negros left to Leon R. Bullard, Sally Catherine Brooks, negro girl to -my mother,- Sally Bullard, and when she dies negro girl to be sold and money divided among John W. Bullard, Thomas Bullard, Leon R. Bullard, Jarmany G. Bullard, Silah Jackson, Elizabeth Horsley’s heirs and Sally C. Brooks. Left land to Thomas Ballard and John W. Bullard. To wife, Malinda Bullard, my gray horse and a cow and calf. If he wins land in lottery, it to be divided among his brothers and sisters--John W. Bullard heirs, Thomas Bullard, Leon R. Bullard, Jarmany G. Bullard, Silah Jackson, Elizabeth Horsley (or E Carsley?) and Sally Catherine Brooks. Exors: Thomas Hamilton and Jarmany G. Bullard. Wit: James H. Morrow, Thomas B. Erwin, John C. Loofson. Brooks, Walker J., minor Hiram L. Brooks 1831 Bond C-56 James Whitfield, gdn. 1838 Bond C-103 Annual returns 1838 - Will Bk 13-84 Brooks, Elizabeth, Jaramy G. Bullard gdn. 1828 & Brooks, Letitia Order appt gdn. Minutes A 213 (minors of William Brooks) Bond - John C. - Bond C-9 Minutes Book A, pg. 213 - September 1828 - On the petition of Hiram Brooks, Letitia Brooks and Elizabeth Brooks that wish Jarmany G. Bullard appointed their guardian, it is therefore ordered that gdn bond of $600 . . and that James Bullard be taken as security Brooks, Wm. (minor) Jaramy J. Bullard gdn. of William Brooks) 1814- lett of admin.} Minutes 1-29 1814 - appraisal } (This should read Hiram Brooks, minor of William Brooks-JSB) Will Book 9, page 350, Court of Ordinary The estate of the orphans of William Brooks, decd., 1828, To Jarmeny G. Bullard, gdn. Received from Paschal Brooks, admr. Of James Brooks, these amounts belonging to: Letitia Brooks $64.97 Hiram Brooks, $67.05 Elizabeth Brooks, $64.97 $196.98 Letitia Brooks paid in full from estate of William Brooks, decd.$63.50 Hiram Brooks, pd. $65.50 recorded 18 Nov. 1830, by Jarmany G. Bullard, gdn. 1834 - Estate of Elizabeth Brooks, minor, 1834, to Jarmany G. Bullard, gdn., To cash paid (a couple of people)