LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Letter/Misc. - Hardee Letter, re Rice Estate, 1832. ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Martha Mewborn Marble July 1999 ========================================================================== Re: RICE: SUSANNA RICE ESTATE MISC GENEALOGY - ECU Manu. Collection, Joyner Library, Greenville, NC Used with the permission of the staff for the Lenoir County Archives Site Folder said Lenoir County and John C. Washington did live in Lenoir County April 1 1832 - Mr. John Washington Sir Allow me too address you as the administrator of my mother, Susanna Rice. I as one of her heirs cal your attention to a certain sum of money the amount of which you are not ignerent of say about $500 which can be proven to have been in her posseshion as her own property at the time of her death and as I understand not yet accounted for by Mr. Murphy who took charge of her keys when she dyed it will not doo for you to close your ears against this information for I doo ashure you I will hold you responsible for any neglect or ommission on your part as an administrator Yours respectfully signed by Thomas Hardee and Eliza Hardee