Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 State of South Carolina County of Chester In Probate Court EX-PARTE ALLEN J. GREEN Administrator April 11, 1817 IN RE Estate of HALCOTT J. PRIDE deceased Apartment No. 56 Package No. 876 Book No. 7 Page: 207 Page 1 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 In the name of God, Amen. I HALCOTT JONES PRIDE, being of sound mind a& memory, do hereby make & declare this to be my last will & testament as to all my worldly goods … IMPRIMIS I give & bequeath to my brother FREDERICK J. PRIDE forty shares of Bank Stock in the State Bank of North Carolina with the dividends due thereon. ITEM I give & bequeath to my brother CADWALLADER JONES forty shares also, in the same bank, with the dividends due thereon. ITEM I give to FREDERICK J. PRIDE & CADWALLADER JONES, jointly, the bond due me by Dr. STRACHAN of Petersburg, VA, with the interest thereon, in order to purchase a carriage for AMARYLLIS [SITGREAVES] and a set of plate for REBECCA JONES. ITEM I give to Mrs. WINNIFRED SHARP of Petersburg, VA, two hundred dollars. ITEM I give to FREDERICK J. PRIDE man GEORGE, as a satisfactions for all claims of that nature. ITEM I give & bequeath to my sister LUCY P. GREEN, to her sole, separate & exclusive use, and benefit, not subject to the interference or control of any person or persons whatever, with full power to dispose of it as she may think fit & proper, my land & plantation on the Catawba River, Chester District, together with all my stock of horses, hogs, cows, also the crop of cotton, corn, fodder, oats, with all the plantation utensils of every description including wagon, cotton machine & “liren”, to her, the said LUCY P. GREEN I give the said property. ITEM I give & bequeath to my said sister LUCY P. GREEN, to her sole, separate & exclusive use & benefit, not subject to the interference or control of her husband or any person or persons whatever, all my negro slaves of every age or description (excepting man GEORGE) with full & discretionary power to dispose of them as she may think fit, to her, the said LUCY P. GREEN & to her alone, do I give & bequeath the above mentioned property. ITEM I give to the said LUCY P. GREEN all my furniture. ITEM I give to ALLEN J. GREEN my gig & gig horse, together with my new bridle & saddle. ITEM I give & bequeath to CADWALLADER JONES my bureau & all my books in North Carolina. ITEM I give to WILLIAM AGNES a full suit of clothes, “tay”, coat, neat, pantaloons & shoes of the best that he may choose from J. P. Hall’s store. ITEM I give five dollars each to the following Negroes: LEWIS, CHARLES, HOWELL, OSBORN, PETER, GALE, BILLY, DOLL, JACOB, LEVI, FANNY, SILLAH, JOE & to all the other grown ones $2.00 each. Page 2 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 In confirmation of all which I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 8th day of December 1816. HALCOTT J. PRIDE {seal} Test HYDE A. DAVIE ROBERT K. CROCKETT DAVID PATTON CODICIL I appoint and nominate FREDRICK J. PRIDE, CADWALLADER JONES & ALLEN J. GREEN executors of this my last will & Testament. HALCOTT J. PRIDE SECOND CODICIL I wish ALLEN JONES GREEN only to qualify as executor of my will, & I desire that my debts be first attended to. HALCOTT J. PRIDE Page 3 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 South Carolina Chester District By E. LYLES, ordinary & c. Personally appeared before me ROBERT K. CROCKETT & DAVID PATTON who being duly sworn as the law directs doth make oath and say that they saw HALCOTT J. PRIDE sign, seal, publish & pronounce & declare the within to be and contain his last will & testament & that he, the said HALCOTT J. PRIDE was then of sound & disposing mind, memory & understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief and that they, the said ROBERT K. CROCKETT & DAVID PATTON did sign their names as witness thereto at the request of the testator in his presence at the same time qualified ALLEN JONES GREEN, executor. Given under my hand the 31st day of March in the year of our Lord 1817. ROBERT K. CROCKETT DAVID PATTON E. LYLES, J. C. O. C. D. HALCOTT J. PRIDE, last will and testament recorded Book F Page 207 & 208. Page 4 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 South Carolina Chester District By E. LYLES, ordinary, C. D. DAVID PATTON aforesaid being sworn saith on his oath he saw the deceased HALCOTT J. PRIDE write and acknowledge … the above two codicils to be a apart of his last will & the interlining in the first codicil of the words I GREEN was done by deceased in his presence. Sworn and subscribed before me the 31st day March 1817. DAVID PATTON E. LYLES J. C. O. C. D. Page 5 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 State of South Carolina Chester District A list of the valuation and appraisement of the property of HALCOTT J. PRIDE deceased as produced to us by ALLEN J. GREEN acting execution to said deceased. [inventory list] $20,743.61½ Given under our hands the 11th day of April 1817 JOSEPH GASTON THOMAS HALL DAVID PATTON Page 6 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 The estate of HALCOTT J. PRIDE, deceased. WILLIAM AGNESS MRS. ANNE BAY ALEXANDER BROWN MAJOR JOHN CANTY WILLIAM CLARKSON, ESQUIRE DR. J. DAVIS JAMES K. DOUGLAS & CO. KIRKPATRICK DOUGLAS DR. DUNAVANT THOMAS DUNLOP JOSEPH GASTON, ESQUIRE ALLEN J. GREEN DR. THOMAS HALL MR. HODGES DR. JONES E. LYLES WILLIAM SIMPSON JOHN B. STRACHAN Certified on oath the 1 day June A. D. 1817 ALLEN JONES GREEN, Executor Page 7 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 Estate of H. J. PRIDE deceased To delivery of Yellow Servant GEORGE bequeathed to F. L. J. PRIDE, Esquire To transfer of forty shares of bank stock in the State Bank of North Carolina together with the eight and ninth dividends due thereon to FREDRICK L. J. PRIDE, Esquire it being bequeathed him by H. J. PRIDE, deceased. To transfer of forty shares in the capital stock of the State of North Carolina together with the eighth and ninth dividends due thereunto CADWALLADER JONES being a legacy bequeathed to him by the late H. J. PRIDE, deceased. To Mrs. WINIFRED SHARPS legacy $200. To STRAHAN’s bond paid over to CADWALLADER JONES and F. L. J. PRIDE agreeable to will $2,000. The balance of the estate being left to LUCY P. GREEN, sister to the testator has been paid over to her and is now held for her use by her husband as her trustee. ALLEN JONES GREEN September 1823 To E. LYLES, Esquire, Judge of the court of ordinary, Chester District, S. C. Page 8 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 State of South Carolina Chester District By E. LYLES, ordinary of Chester District. THESE ARE TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER YOU, or any three or four of you, whose names are here under written, to repair to all such parts and places within this state, as you shall be directed unto by ALLEN J. GREEN, executor of the goods and chattels, rights and credits of HALCOTT J. PRIDE, late of Chester District, deceased, wheresoever any of the said goods and chattels are or do remain within the said parts and places, and which shall be shown unto you by the said ALLEN J. GREEN, executor of said deceased’s estate and there view and appraise all and every the said goods and chattels, being first duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, to make a true and perfect inventory and appraisement thereof, and to cause the same to be returned under your hands, or any three or four of you, unto the said ALLEN J. GREEN executor of the estate of HALCOTT J. PRIDE on or before the first Monday of June next. WITNESS E. LYLES, Esquire, ordinary of the said district, the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and in the forty- first year of American Independence. TO MESSRS. JOSEPH GASTON, Esquire; DAVID PATTON, Esquire; Genl. WILLIAM R. DAVIE; Doctor THOMAS HALL, Esquire; ROBERT ROBINSON MEMORANDUM That on the 8th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen personally appeared before me, JOSEPH GASTON, one of the justices assigned to keep the peace in the district of Chester in said state DAVID PATTON Esquire and DOCTOR THOMAS HALL being two of the appraisers appointed to appraise the goods and chattels of HALCOTT J. PRIDE, late of said district, deceased, who being duly sworn, make oath, that they would make a just and true appraisement of all and singular, the goods and chattels of the said HALCOTT J. PRIDE, deceased, as shall be produced by ALLEN J. GREEN executor of the estate of the said deceased, and that they would return the same, certified under their hands, unto the said ALLEN J. GREEN, executor on or before the first day of May next. Sworn the day ad year above written, before me JOSEPH GASTON J. Q. Page 9 of 11 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will, SC, Chester, Halcott Jones Pride 1816 South Carolina Chester District JOSEPH GASTON, Esquire, one of the within named was duly sworn to execute on his part the within warrant of appraisement. Before me, DAVID PATTON, one of the justices assigned to keep the peace in said district on this 8th of April 1817. DAVID PATTON, J. P. 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