Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 In the name of God Amen. I, CYNTHIA REEVES, of York District and state of South Carolina. I, Cynthia Reeves do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as follow (Viz): First it is my will and desire that my negro man ELI be sold and from the proceeds of that sale I direct all my debts to be paid and one fourth part of the balance of the proceeds of said sale to be given to each of my three Children: JAMES ALLEN [REEVES], ROBINSON [REEVES], and POLLY REEVES and the other fourth part, together with one Hundred and fifteen Dollars, now due me by my son JAMES ALLEN [REEVES], it is my will and desire should be equally divided between the children of my Daughter BETSEY [REEVES] BLAYLOCK when they arrive of age or marry. Second I also direct my Smith Tools to be sold and one third part of the proceeds. I give to my son JAMES ALLEN [REEVES] and the other two thirds to my son ROBINSON REEVES. Third It is further my will that the whole of my Household and Kitchen furniture all my Plantation tools and implements of every description all my Horses, Cattle and Hogs and every article of Personal Property I own be sold and the Proceeds of said sale to be equally divided between my son ROBINSON REEVES and POLLY REEVES. Forth I will and bequeath all am right Title and interest in and to the Tract of Land whereon I now live to my Son ROBINSON [REEVES] and POLLY REEVES Fifth and lastly I appoint my Son ROBINSON [REEVES] sole Executor to this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills and Testaments. CYNTHIA REEVES {seal} Signed sealed and delivered as last Will and Testament in Presence of us the subscribing witnesses who at her request and her request or Witnesses to the due the execution of the same. JOHN SPRINGS JOHN BOBBITT ELIZABETH BAXTEN [BAXTER] Probated December 12, 1838 Will Book '2' P-51 Case No. 38 File No. 652 Page 1 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Appraise bill of the estate of Mrs. CYNTHIA REEVES, widow, deceased, consisting of the following property. Negro boy YILI We the under named subscribers were legally qualified to appraising the above estate within. WILLIAM C. SCHOOLY ZADAK STURGIS J. H. CLAWSON 21st December, 1838 Page 2 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 A sale bill of the property of CYNTHIA REEVES, deceased, sold the 22nd January 1839 JAMES ALLEN ELIZABETH BAXTER MRS. BLALOCK JOHN BOBBIT JOSEPH CATHCART THOMAS CLAWSON ? DAVIDSON D. GADDING JOSEPH GLOVER SAMUEL HAMMOND JONATHON HANNSTER HARVEY G. MASSEY WILLIAM NEELY SMITH PATTERSON D. S. PATTON ? PAXTON THOMAS ROACH SAMUEL SCHOOLY JACKSON SPENCER R. A. SPRINGS D. STURGIS ZADOCK STURGIS DAVID THORP WILLIAM TODD THEODORICK WEBB MATTHEW WILLIAMS Z. YOUNG Page 3 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Amount of cash paid out by the estate of Cynthia Reeves deceased January 22nd 1839. CAMPBELL, surveying land MCELHANY, crying sale Z. STURGIS L. PATTERSON Page 4 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 A list of the notes of CYNTHIA REEVES deceased returned to me on oaths February 4th 1839 BC OYD [BENJAMIN CHAMBERS] Recorded Book R Page 163 Page 5 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 A list of notes belonging to the estate of CYNTHIA REEVES, deceased, the 22nd January 1839. JAMES ALLEN ELIZABETH BAXTER FANNY BAXTER D. M. BLALOCK JOHN BOBLET JOSEPH CATHCART THOMAS J. CLAWSON B. F. DAVIDSON JOSEPH GLOVER JONATHAN HAMILTON SAMUEL HAMMOND H. G. MASSEY DAVID PATTON M. ?. QUICK MARTHA RAY JACKSON SPENCE DANIEL STURGIS WILLIAM TODD MATTHEW H. WILLIAMS Page 6 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Amount of cash received from the estate of CYNTHIA REEVES, deceased, 22nd January 1839. JOHN JENNINGS SMITH PATTERSON WILEY REEVES THOMAS ROACH SAMUEL SCHOOLY R. A. SPRINGS JAMES STURGIS DANIEL THARK ZENNY YOUNG Page 7 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 ROBINSON REEVES executor of CYNTHIA REEVES deceased settlement March 5th 1841 Recorded Book of Returns Pages 103 & 104 Case 38 No. 652 Page 8 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 ROBINSON REEVES executor in account with the estate of CYNTHIA REEVES, deceased, settlement. HENRY G. MASSEY N. KIMBEL MARY BAXTER J. A. ALSTON WILLIAM REEVES ROBINSON REEVES POLLY REEVES JAMES ALLEN BETSY BLALOCK Sworn to before me March 5, 1841 BENJAMIN CHAMBERS OYD Page 9 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Georgia Coweta County Know all men by these presents that I JAMES GARISON & MARGARET GARISON, formerly MARGARET BAXTER of the county & state aforesaid for divers good causes & consideration we hereunto moving have made, ordered & appointed & by these presents do make, ordain & appoint JAMES SIMRIL of state of South Carolina & district of York our true & lawful attorney for us in our names & for our own proper use & befit to ask, demand, sue for & recover & receive of & from ROBINSON REEVES of district and state last mentioned all such, all such sums or sums of money, debts & demands whatsoever which are now due & owning unto us by & from the said ROBINSON REEVES & to have, use & take all lawful ways & means in our names or otherwise & to compound & agree for the same & acquittance for other or other sufficient receipts & discharges for the same for us & in our names to make seal & deliver & to do all other, lawful acts & things whatsoever concerning the premises as fully & in every respect as we ourselves might or could do were we personally present at the doing thereof & one or more attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid to make & again at his pleasure to revoke, ratifying & confirming & by these presents allowing whatsoever our said attorney shall in our name lawfully do or cause to be done in & about the premises by virtue of the presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & affixed our seals this twelfth day of July in the year of our lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. JAMES GARISON {seal} MARGARET GARISON {seal} Signed, sealed & acknowledged before me. HENRY K. ALLEN, JP Page 10 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Georgia Coweta County I WILLIAM NIMMONS deputy clerk of the Inferior Court for said county do hereby certify that HENRY K. ALLEN whose name appears to the foregoing letter of attorney as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the Peach and that full faith and credit ought to believed and given to his attestation as such and that the same is in due form. Given under my hand and seal of office this twenty third day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. WILLIAM NIMMONS, D. Clerk Georgia Coweta County I SAM G. ECHOLS one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that WILLIAM NIMMONS, whose name appears to the above certificate is an acting deputy clerk of the Inferior Court of the county aforesaid. Given under my hand this twenty third of July, 1839. SAM G. ECHOLS Page 11 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 JAMES GARISON MARGARET GARISON power of attorney to JAMES SIMRIL to be recorded Recorded Book R Pages 401, 402 & 403 Page 12 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 Warrant of Appraisement SCINTHA REEVES deceased estate ROBINSON REEVES executor December 12th 1838 Recorded Book M Page 156 & 157 Page 13 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 South Carolina York District By BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, Esq., ordinary There are to authorize & empower you or any three or four of you whose names are here under written to repair to all such parts & places as you shall be directed unto by ROBINSON REEVES, executor, of the estate of SCINTHA REEVES, deceased, & there view and appraise & inventory make of all such goods & chattels of the said deceased you shall be directed unto by said executor & return the same to the said executor within thirty days from this date. Given under my hand & seal this 12th day of December 1838 under your hands & seals or any three or four of you. Direct to ALEXANDER STURGIS, WILLIAM SCHOOLY, JOHN S. SITGREAVES, JACOB CLAWSON Esq & JOHN SPRINGS. BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, OYD Page 14 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 I certify that WILLIAM SCHOOLY & ZEDOCK STURGIS and my self was legally qualified as the law directs previous to appraising the estate of Mrs. SYNTHA REEVES, deceased. February 9th 1839 JACOB H. CLAWSON, JP Page 15 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 State of South Carolina York District By BENJAMIN CHAMBERS Esquire, ordinary To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: KNOW YE, that on the twelfth day of December which was in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight the last will and testament of SCINTHA REEVES lat of York District in this State, of South Carolina, deceased, was proved, approved, and allowed of; the said deceased having whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers goods, rights and credits, within the State aforesaid; by means whereof the approbation and allowing of her testament, and the power of granting the administration of all and singular the goods, rights, and credits, of the said deceased, to me is manifestly known to belong, and that the administration of all and singular the goods,rights and credits of the said deceased, and her testament, any manner of way concerning, was granted and committed unto ROBINSON REEVES named executor in the said last will and testament: being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, well and faithfully to administer, and make a full and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, rights and credits of the said deceased, and to exhibit the same into the ordinary’s office, in Your Court House in order to be recorded, on or before the first day of March now next ensuing; and to render a just and true account, calculation, and reckoning thereof, when thereunto required. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and in the sixty third year of American Independence. Page 16 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, SC, York, Cynthia Reeves 1838 ROBERTSON REEVES, executor of the last will & testament of SCYNTHA REEVES, deceased, statement. JAMES ALLEN WILLIAM CAMPBELL H. G. CATHCART B CHAMBERS J. H. CLAWSON ALEXANDER FEWELL JAMES MCELHANY JAMES SIMERAL Sworn to before me March 24th 1840 BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, OYD Page 17 of 17 ** PAGE BREAK **