Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 State of South Carolina county of Chester in Probate Court ex parte WILLIAM YOUNG and EZEKIEL SANDERS administrators July 5th 1800 in re the estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased Apartment number 53 Package number 842 Page 1 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 South Carolina Chester District by JOSEPH BROWN ordinary of the said district these are to authorize and Empower you or any three of you whose names are here under written to repair to all such parts and places as you shall be directed onto by WILLIAM YOUNG and EZEKIEL SANDERS executor of the last will of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased wheresoever any of the goods and chattels of the said deceased our or do remain and shall be shown to you by the said executor and their view and praise all and every of the said goods and chattels being first sworn before some magistrate to make a perfect inventory and appraisement thereof and to cause the same to be returned under your hands or any three of you to the set executor is within the time prescribed by law. Dated the 24th of July 1800 To HAZEL HARDWICK [HASSLE HARDRICK], JOHN RHODEN [JOHN RODEN], DANIEL GAGERS [DANIEL ZAGGERS], WILLIAM SANDERS, WASHTON HOPKINS [GEORGE W. HOPKINS] or any three of you. J. BROWN, ordinary Page 2 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 In the name of God Amen I GEORGE O'BRIENT of the District of Chester and state of South Carolina being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory do hereby make, ordain, constitute and appoint this my last will and testament viz I recommend my soul to God who gave it me and my body to be disposed of at the discretion of my executor is here after named FIRST I desire on my just debts to be paid then I give unto my beloved Son THOMAS O'BRIENT 400 acres of land including the plantation where I now live ITEM I lend to TEMPY STERNS during her natural life 100 acres of land including the house where JOEL WILSON lived and where I am building a house at her the said TEMPY STERNS decease I give the said hundred acres of land to my beloved daughter NANCY O'BRIENT and the residue of my whole estate to be equally divided amongst the following under named persons viz: SUSANNA WILSON, ELIZA O'BRIENT, POLLY O'BRIENT, THOMAS O'BRIENT, NANCY O'BRIENT, and TEMPY STERNS and to be divided at the discretion of my Executives Hereafter named and I do hereby nominate constitute appoint and ordain my trusty and well beloved friends WILLIAM YOUNG and EZEKIEL SANDERS as my true and lawful Executives to this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the second day of May in the year of Our Lord 1800 and in the 24th year of independence of America. GEORGE O'BRIENT {seal, his x mark} Signed and acknowledged in the presence of E. NUNN BENNET HUMPHREYS {his x mark} WILLIAM GARRARD {his x mark} Page 3 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 South Carolina Chester District I do hereby certify to JOSEPH BROWN, Esquire, ordinary of the said District that HAZEL HARDWICK, JOHN RODEND, WILLIAM SANDERS those of the within named appraisers did come before me ELIJAH NUNN of one of the justices for the said District I was duly sworn as the law directs to appraise and make a true and perfect inventory and appraisement of the said estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased. Given under my hand this 12th day of July 1800. E. NUNN Page 4 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 South Carolina Chester District Before me JOSEPH BROWN ordinary of the said District personally appeared Col. ELIJAH NUNN, BENNETT HUMPHREY, and WILLIAM GARRARD and being duly sworn declare that they saw GEORGE O'BRIENT sign and acknowledge the within instrument of writing as his last will and testament, to the best of their knowledge and belief said GEORGE O'BRIENT was of sound and disposing mind and memory and that they did subscribe as witnesses thereto in the presence of the testator. Sworn this 4th of July 1800. J. BROWN Page 5 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 WILLIAM GARRARD JOSEPH WILSON Page 6 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 Agreeable to and Order of Col. JOSEPH BROWN ordinary of Chester District to us directed we have met at his house of the late GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased to appraise and make a true and perfect inventory of the estate of said GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased being sworn to appraise and make out a true inventory and appraisement of the said State we hereby certify that the following is a just and true inventory of the set of State as shown to us. Given under our hands and seals this 12th day of July 1800. HAZEL HARDWICK WILLIAM SANDERS S. JOHN RODEN [INVENTORY LIST] Page 7 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased October 1800 TO TEMPY STERNS South Carolina Chester District Personally appeared TEMPY STERNS before me the subscribing Justice and being duly sworn as the law directs deposeth that the above account of $8.25 as it stands stated against the state of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased is just and true TEMPY STERNS {his x mark} Sworn to and subscribed this 18th of March 1801 before me. E. NUNN Page 8 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 Paid by EZEKIEL SANDERS to the ordinary on the account of GEORGE O'BRIENT estate deceased THOMAS O'BRIENT 1802 schooling ... NANCY O'BRIENT 1802 schooling ... Page 9 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 South Carolina Chester District received of EZEKIEL SANDERS one of the executor of the estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased the sum of $195 in full of all demands against the estate the personal property of the set of State I therefore relinquish all my right and claim or demands against the executives of the set of state. As witness my hand and seal this 31st of May 1811. test H. HARDWICK NANCY O'BRIENT STEPHEN CLEMENT Page 10 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 South Carolina Chester District Personally appeared JOEL WILSON and JOHN NIX before me the subscribing Justice being duly sworn as the law directs the said JOEL WILSON says that he was present on company with GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased and heard the said GEORGE O'BRIENT tell BURRELL SPELLERS to fetch him the said O'BRIENT a gallon of Whiskey from the said JOHN NIX farther further say that he the said SPELLERS did fetch the whiskey and the said JOHN NIX sayeth on his oath that he first fetch the whiskey by the said SPELLERS and never received any satisfaction for the same and that the said GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased is indebted to him $1 for said whiskey. Sworn to before me the 15th of September 1801. JOEL WILSON {his x mark} JOHN NIX {his x mark} Sworn to before me and subscribed E. NUNN Page 11 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 A return of the amount of sale of the estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased Recorded in Book B page 122 NOAH BENNET RICHARD DAVIS GEORGE DONALD HEZEKIAH DONALD WILLIAM DUFFLE WILLIAM FOWELL WILLIAM GARROTT ASHFORD GORE CLEM GORE DAVIS GORE JAMES GORE WILL GORE HAZEL HARDWICK JOHN HUMPHRIES JAMES JAY W JOHNSON ALLEN MAYFIELD JONATHAN MAYFIELD DAN MCCOLPIN DAVID MITCHELL JAMES MITCHELL LEWIS MORRIS JAMES MURPHY SHERROD NANCE ELIZA O'BRIENT JESSE O'BRIENT POLLY O'BRIENT THOMAS RODEN JOHN SAMPLE WILLIAM SCARF EDWARD SELF TEMPY STERNS DAN THOMAS HUGH THOMAS WILL WATTS ABNER WILKES DAVID WILLIAMS WILL WILLIAMS JOEL WILSON THOMAS YOUNG Page 12 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, Chester, GEORGE OBrient 1800 The estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT deceased to ELIZA and POLLY O'BRIENT South Carolina Chester District Personally appeared ELIZA O'BRIENT and POLLY O'BRIENT before me ELIJAH NUNN one of the justices for the said District being duly sworn as the law direct deposeth and say that the above account of $16.50 against the estate of GEORGE O'BRIENT, deceased, is just and true. ELIZA O'BRIENT {her x mark} POLLY O'BRIENT {her x mark} Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of November 1801. E. NUNN Page 13 of 13 ** PAGE BREAK **