Northampton County, NC - Coaker, Sugar Estate-1816-Mason Coaker Bird legacy File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Steven J. Coker South Carolina Sumter District By William (Potts ?) Ordinary Sumter District Whereas Thomas Cooker Administrator of Estate of Sugar Cooker late of the District & State aforesaid Sheweth that there was a legacy left By Benjamin Cooker Deceased of North Carolina unto Mason Bird formerly Mason Cooker Daughter of said Benjamin Cooker Deceased which the said Sugar Cooker Executor of (said ?) Estate of said Benjamin Cooker Deceased hath never paid. I therefore Authorize & empower you the said William Canada Zachariah Dubose & Daniel McKinsey to appraise the Articles left as a legacy (to the said Mason Bird formerly Mason Cooker Daughter of Benjamin Cooker Deceased) mentioned in the said ~ Last Will & Testament of the said Benjamin Cooker Deceased & make a just & true return of the appraisement certified under your hands to the said Thomas Cooker Administrator of Estate of Sugar Cooker Deceased that he may return the same unto the Ordinarys Office & that, he the said Thomas Cooker may Discharge the same agreeable to his petition given under my hand this 11 day of March Anno Dimini 1816. Daniel Mckenzy (by his mark) William (Potts?) Ord _ S _ Di =========================================== South Carolina } Personally appeared before me Sumter District } Thos Rose Justice of the Quorum } William Canada Zachariah Dubose & Daniel Mckensey maketh Oath that they will make & just & true appraisement of the said property mentioned in said legacy (within ?) mentioned & make a just & true return of the same unto the within named Thomas Cooker Administrator of Estate of Sugar Cooker Deceased. W Kennedy Zachariah Dubose Thos. Rose JQ. ------------------------------ Source: Transcribed by Steven James Coker from a copy of the original document. Notes By Transcriber: 1. A word or phrase shown inside parentheses with a question mark indicates the transcriber is not confident as to the reading of the word or phrase. 2. A blank underlined space "__" indicates letters or words are missing or illegible in the copy. 3. For this presentation, little attempt has been made to layout the text identical to that shown in the document. In particular, words per line and line breaks may vary. Some attempt has been made to reproduce capitalization and punctuation as found in the original. However, this is not an exact and true reproduction. 4. Sugar, Thomas, and Mason are named in the will of Benjamin Coaker of Northampton, North Carolina in 1805. Steven James Coker http://www.wp.com/Coker http://members.tripod.com/~SCROOTS This transcription of the 1816 Estate of Sugar Cooker (COKER) was published in the COKER genealogy Forum at Coker-L@rootsweb.com on April 2, 1998. Copies of that email may be found in the Rootsweb archives at http://www.rootsweb.com and in the Coker-L archives at http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/Coker-L. ============================================================== 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. The 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. ==============================================================