PICKENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Estate of David Hamilton Sr. 1839 Sale


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PICKENS DISTRICT REAL ESTATE DIVISIONS
Page 37: David Hamilton Sr. Real Estate
 1839.   South Carolina, Pickens District. Personally appeared before me
Gideon Martin & Reuben G. Cummings who being duly sworn on their oath said 
that they are well acquainted with that part of the tract of land willed by
David Hamilton Sr. to his Grandson Alexander Hamilton dec'd containing 108
acres and they do not think it worth $1000 that it cannot well be divided & 
Therefore think it best that the Ordinary should sell it for distribution
20th March 1839. signed by G..Martin & Reuben G. Cunning.
                               Andrew W. Kirkpatrick applicant
                                              vizt
                               Edmund Parsons & Elizabeth his wife)
Defendants
                               John Prater & Margaret his wife)
                               David Hamilton)
                               Heirs of Jane Hamilton)
                               Samuel Frasuer in right of wife Bethsheba)

For the sale of 108 acres of land the Real Estate of David Hamilton the
Grandson having died previous to his Grandfather said Tract lying in
Pickens District on the waters of 18 mile Creek 1839, April lst. Advertised 
for Absent Legatees to appear on or before 1st Monday of June next Ordered 
to be sold by the sheriff on the 1 Monday of Dec & postponed for council 
till the 6th of January 1840 and then the sale was forbidden by Mrs. Celia 
Hamilton. I therefore further postponed the sale hoping that the parties 
would compromise at March Court; this the applicant Kirkpatrick utterly 
refused to do, and urged the sale. 

Applicants Petition and 2d applicant. 
To the Court of Ordinary for Pickens District, So Carolina. 
The undersigned one of the Heirs of David Hamilton in right of my wife Mary 
petitions your court for the sale of 108 acres of land devised to his 
Grandson by the said deceased who died before the said Devisee, and 
consequently the will could not take effect. The Prayer of your Petitioner 
therefore is that the said Tract of 108 acres of land be sold by the Ordinary
as soon as practicable on a credit until the 25th of December next Given 
under my hand the 16th March 1840. signed by Andrew W. Kirkpatrick. Test Wm. 
Holcombe.

Ordered & Decreed that the sheriff advertised and sell the Tract of 108 acres
of land above described on the 4th day of May next or such other sale day as.

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