MARION COUNTY ESTATE RECORDS
BOOK A (1839-1849) (unindexed)

 Inventories, Appraisements, Sales, Returns, Vouchers.

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Inventory, appraisement and sale

 of Estate of McKinney Melton

Marion County, Georgia

1840 (pages 82-89, Book A)

An inventory and appraisement of the real and personal estate of McKiney Melton, deceased, this 22 Dec 1840.

Negro man named Dick $1,000.00
Negro man named Bob  $      1,000.00
Boy Jerry  $         800.00
Woman Beulah and her two children Antony and Tony  $      1,000.00
Woman Anny  $         500.00
Giel Ann  $         450.00
Woman Beck  $         300.00
Bay horse  $         100.00
sorrell mare and colt  $           77.00
gray horse  $           55.00
road horse  $           75.00
16 head pork hogs  $           55.00
beadstead, bed and furnature  $           25.00
beadstead, bed and furnature  $           25.00
beadstead, bed and furnature  $           25.00
small beadstead  $             8.00
lot of counterpaines  $           10.00
1/2 doz winder (sic) chairs  $             3.00
slab and furnature  $           20.00
wooden clock  $           12.00
lott sundries  $           13.00
shot gun, shot pouch, shot bag  $           12.00
pair saddle bags  $             0.75
7 head geese  $             4.50
62 head of stock cattle  $         248.00
3 cow hides  $             1.00
mans saddle and bridle  $             2.00
cross cut saw  $             2.00
2 pair steelyards  $             1.50
lott of pott weare  $           12.00
pair of smoothing irons  $             0.75
loom and gear  $             4.00
sythe  $             3.00
lott of coopers weare  $             8.00
lott of barrells  $             5.50
clock real  $             0.25
3 spinning wheels and 2 pair cards  $             5.00
bee gum  $             1.00
large chest  $             5.00
dyning table  $             2.00
lott of axes  $             5.00
lott of tools  $             6.50
hoes and log chain  $             2.00
lott of grubing hoes  $             2.00
lott of weeding hoes  $             2.00
12 iron wedges and frow  $             2.00
lot of plow hains  $             2.00
3 paid chain traces  $             2.00
lott of iron trymphry  $             2.00
Jerry waggon  $           15.00
side saddle  $             1.50
pair cart tyre  $             1.50
2 pair cart wheels  $           12.00
yoke work steets  $           30.00
crib corn on lot of fodder  $           35.00
25 head sheep  blank 
300 acres of land  $         800.00
1 note of Ambrose Jones  $         600.00
1 note on Ambrose Jones  $         700.00
1 note on Charles Beaufield  $           30.00
1 note on Jesey Beaufield  $           27.00
1 note on Elizabeth Driver  $           63.00

We do certify upon oath that as far as was produced to us by the Admr the above and four going contains a true appraisment of the

estate of McKinny Melton deceased to the best of our judgment and understanding this 22 day of Dec 1840.

Thomas Brady, R Peacock, John Cox, appraisers.

I do hereby certify that the above appraisers were sworn to perform their duty as appraisers according to law this 22 day of Dec 1840.

Simeon Hutchens JP.

 

Bill of sale of articles sold at the sale of McKiney Melton:

 

Mrs Melton 3 sles?  $             2.25
William Jackson  lott axes   $             4.31
Mrs Melton  lott plow tools   $             1.25
Thomas Brady  2 iron wedges & frow   $             2.50
Thomas Brady  2 iron wedges & frow   $             2.50
Elbert melton  lott of ---   $             2.00
John S Brooks  3 gubling hoes   $             2.37
Thomas Brady  lott sundries   $             1.75
Peter McBryde  lott tools   $             3.00
Elbert Melton  adds (sic)   $             0.50
William Bearfield  large pair stylards   $             1.75
William Bearfield  small pair stylards   $             0.87
Mrs Melton  Jerry Waggon   blank 
Mrs Melton  side saddle   $             3.00
William Bearfield  saddle and bridle   $             2.50
Cullen Cox  bridle martingell   $             0.75
Nathan Mott  lot horse shoes   $             0.27
Levi Bearifield  lot of leather   $             6.06
Mathew Melton  2 pr hanes and traces   $             2.00
Nimrod Busby  beads, bedstead, furnature   $            40.60
Mrs Melton  beads, bedstead, furnature   $            10.00
Mrs Melton  beads, bedstead, furnature   $            48.00
Mrs Melton  beads, bedstead, furnature   $            41.00
Henry Milton  bedstead   $             3.00
Mrs Melton  8 counterpains   $            14.00
Ezekiel Hughs  lot of windsor chairs   $             3.75
Jesse Tanner  blow horn   $             0.50
Mrs Melton  lot of chairs   $             2.00
Philip Thomas  cross cut saws   $             1.50
Mrs Melton  sideboard and furnature   $            21.00
Mrs Melton  lot smoothing iron   $             0.75
Mrs Melton  clock   $             7.00
Morgan Kemp  shotgun bag and pouch   $            10.62
Mrs Melton  chest   $             3.50
Mrs Melton  wheel and pr cards   $             1.00
John Pitman  wheel and pr cards   $             1.50
John Rushin  wheels   $             1.12
Mrs Melton  lot milk vessels   $             1.00
Mrs Melton  lot of tubs   $             1.75
Mrs Melton  2 potts   $             3.25
Mrs Melton  lot of sundries   $             0.50
Mrs Melton  oven fry pan   $             1.10
Mrs Melton  loom and gear   $             2.50
Mrs Melton  3 water pails lot pans   $             0.75
Jesse Tarver  pair sheer shears   $             0.12
Mrs Melton  lot sundries   $             5.50
Mrs Melton  crockety and bee stand   $             3.36
William B Stewart  lot hides   $             1.31
Henry Murphy  hogg   $             1.25
Joseph Robinson  5 sheep   $            11.25
Mrs Melton  5 sheep   $            10.00
Cullen Cox  5 sheep   $            10.00
Cullen Cox  5 sheep   $             9.06
Hugh Hall  5 sheep   $             6.18
Mrs Melton  9 head geese   $             5.20
Mrs Melton  18 head cattle   $          126.00
Matthew Melton  7 head cattle   $            43.00
James Garr or Goss  8 head cattle   $            34.00
Andrew Shely  9 head cattle   $            35.93
P J Pemberton  6 head cattle   $            24.37
John S Brooks  12 head cattle   $            48.75
William Sheely  2 steer   $            10.12
Mrs Melton  1 table   $             2.00
Patrick Brady  negro man Bob for hire   $          166.00
James Grover  negro man Dick for hire   $          180.00
Matthew Melton  hire of boy Jery   blank 
Matthew Melton  hire of woman and two childs   $            38.12
Matthew Melton   black horse  90
Mrs Melton   roan horse  80
Hugh Hall   sorrell mare and colt  73
Hugh Hall   gray horse   $            36.50
Mrs Melton   4 hogs   $            16.00
Mrs Melton   4 hogs   $            15.50
Levi Bearifield   4 hogs   $            12.50
John Pellman   4 hogs   $             6.62
Mrs Melton   2 sows and eleven pigs   $            11.00
Patrick Brady   2 sows and 6 pigs   $             8.00
Hugh Hall   2 sows   $            12.00
Mrs Melton   5 shoats   $             7.00
Jesse Tarver   5 shoats   $             7.25
Jacob Kleckley   5 shoats   $             7.00
Jacob Keckley   5 shoats   $             7.12
Hugh Hall   97 bushel corn   $            67.90
Tillman Hopkins   45 bushel corn   $            30.60
Henry S Melton   50 bushel corn   $            35.50
Mrs Melton   100 bushel corn   $            60.50
Mrs Melton   1 stack fodder   blank 
Patrick Brady   2 stack fodder   blank 
Henry S Melton   2 stack fodder   $             4.56
Hugh Hall   2 stack fodder   blank 
Patrick Brady   1 stack fodder   
Hugh Hall   lot seed cotton   blank 
Henry Murphy   pen pease   $             1.87
William Lockwood   pr cartwheels   $             6.37
Joel Heath   1 pair cart wheels   $            14.00
William Moody   cast iron   $             2.37
Mrs Milton   woman hire   $            35.00
Henry S Melton   1 girl hire   $            50.12
Matthew Melton   1 woman hire   $            32.12
Mrs Melton   rent for house and plantation   blank 
Mrs Melton for Hammack   2 acres   blank 
A Kirkland   5 head cattle   $            30.00
   $       1,964.15

Amount of sale of the negros:

John Rushin Bob  $       1,000.00
John Rushin  Dick   $       1,016.00
Matthew Melton  Jury   $          845.00
Matthew Melton  Bellah   $       1,005.00
Henry Melton  Ann   $          500.00
John Rushin  Annie   $          300.00
Widow  Beckey   $            30.00
   $       4,697.00

Elbert Melton, Admr, Jan 4, 1842

A statement of the acts and doings of Elbert Melton for the years 1840, 1841 and 1842. The estate in account.

Paid:  Voucher #   
Hotton and Junkins  #1   $            86.48
John A Low  #2   $             3.12
John A low  #3   $             3.00
S Bose or Rose  #4   $             3.50
Miles K Harman  #5   $            44.00
Silas W Curtis  #6   $            19.50
Nathan Busby  #7   $            32.72
John Studivent  #8   $            42.59
David Turner  #9   $          132.00
John Harrell  #10   $          516.06
L W Hammack  #11   $             5.30
John Harrell  #12   $          580.00
Jissup and Carmichel  #13   $            59.00
David Turner  #14   $          110.00
L D McMillon  #15   $             8.00
David Counts  #16   $            25.00
Marks and Ragland  #17   $             7.50
Nimrod Busby  #18   $            20.00
Patt Brady  #19   $            14.90
Robt Brown  #20   $             2.75
Kinchen Melton  #21   $            10.50
Thomas Dixon  #22   $             1.00
Gilbert Carmichael  #23   $             2.50

Sworn to in open court. 3 April 1843. B W Dowd

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