Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 An inventory of the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN, deceased, taken this 16th day of December 1800. [INVENTORY LIST] WILLIAM WAER DAVID TURNER GEORGE GRAY, Administrator Proved before me this 10th day of February 1801 WILLIAM CHERRY, JP Page 1 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 An inventory of the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN, decased. [INVENTORY LIST] A true inventory of all that I can find CARTORN BRYAN {his x mark} Bertie County August Court 1744 Exhibited on in by Test BENJAMIN WYNNS, D Clk Page 2 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 Accounts of the hire of the Negroes & plantation of WILLIAM BRYAN, deceased, for the year 1802. LEONARD PURDEY GEORGE HARRELL ELIZABETH BRYAN Deduct for 10 months of negro Jack who was drowned two months after hiring. The Negroes & plantation left in Mrs. Bryan’s hands the last year to support the children and DICK, a boy, the present year for the same. GEORGE GRAY, Administrator Page 3 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 Bertie County To the worshipful court of Bertie Humbly showeth [Catherine] KATHERINE [BRYAN] ELLIS that your humble petitioner is executor of the last will and testament of WILLIAM BRYAN, deceased, and has since been married to AARON ELLIS, who is also deceased, and it is thus (as to the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN deceased) he had four sons, who, tho some of them has received part o what accrued to them from there deceased father’s estate, yet there remains balances due to some of them and he had also two daughters, the estate by indolence & neglect of my late or last husband has been unsettled or audited and my self being but a weak woman in affairs of this kind, humbly prays your worships will order or appoint some proper persons to state audit and settle the same to the intent I may be enabled to make a just and true inventory of my last deceased husband’s estate when my former husband’s is settled and the debts paid off. Page 4 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 State of North Carolina Bertie County Court May Term 1811 Ordered that GEORGE OUTLAW, AARON SPIVEY & JOHN BOND be & they are hereby appointed to divide off to SAMUEL HYMAN his wife’s part of the Negroes belonging to the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN, deceased, and that they make return to next court. Test [James Joseph] B [Hunt] clk ??? Agreeable to the annexed order of court we, the subscribers, have divided off to SAMUEL HYMAN in right of his wife NANCY [BRYAN] one negro boy name HARDY valued at two hundred and eighty three dollars, his proportion being two hundred & thirty eight dollars, which leaves a balance due from said HYMAN to the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN, deceased, of forty four dollars. Given under our hands & seals this 16th of May Anno Domini 1811 GEORGE OUTLAW AARON SPIVEY JOHN BOND Page 5 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 State of North Carolina To the sheriff of Bertie county, greeting. We command you to attach the estate of WILLIAM BRYAN goods, chattles, lands & tenements to the amount of twenty pounds specie or as much as to be found repleviable on security as shall be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and cost according the the complaints of ELISHA BRYAN and such estate so attached in your hand to secure or so to provide that the same may be liable to further proceedings there upon to be had at the court to be held for the county of Bertie at the court house in Windsor on the second Monday in May next so as to compel the said WILLIAM BRYAN to appear and answer the above complaint of the said ELISHA BRYAN when & where you shall make known to the said court how you have executed this writ. Witness STEVENS GRAY, clerk of our said court at Windsor the 10th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred & eighty four in eighth year of American Independence. STEVENS GRAY, CCC Page 6 of 9 ** PAGE BREAK ** Probate, NC, Bertie, William Bryan 1800 State of North Carolina Bertie County Court November Term 1811 Ordered that ELISABETH [Elizabeth] BRYAN, guardian to the orphans of WILLIAM BRYAN deceased, have liberty to sell the Negroes belonging to the said estate at six months credit in order to make a division. [James Joseph] B. [Hunt] ??? 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