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This file was contributed by Martha Mewborn Marble and Guy Potts, Copyright May 2000. mmarble@erols.com ================================================================= JOHN AND GABRIEL PARKER ESTATES This is the only original document in the SYBIL HYATT COLLECTION Collection at Lenoir County Public Library, Kinston, NC On Bill of complaint of DANIEL MILLER and WINEFRED his wife, JOHN DAVISE and LITIA his wife, IMLA N. MILLER & MARY his wife AGAINST RACHEL COX, JULIA LOFTIN, WILLIAM A. COX executor of OWEN B. COX, decd, STEPHEN GOODING & LOUISA his wife, NATHAN PARKER, NANCY PARKER, JOHN PARKER and WILLIAM L. PARKER, the four last named infants, buy their Guardian JOSEPH R. CROOM Humbly complaining shewith unto your Honour your Orator DANIEL MILLER and WINEFRED his wife, JOHN DAVISE and LITIA his wife, IMLA N. MILLER & MARY his wife of the County of Lenoir; that JOHN PARKER Senior late of said county was in his lifetime and at the time of his death, seased of a large real estate and possessed of and well entitled unto a considerable personal estate, consisting of negroes, stock of cattle and divess other effects, of considerable value, and that the said JOHN PARKER in and about the month of December AD 1844 departed this life intestate leaving your Oratores, WINEFRED the wife of your Orator DANIEL MILLER, LILA the wife of your Orator JOHN DAVSE, MARY the wife of your Orator IMLA N. MILLER, the defendants RACHEL COX widow of OWEN B. COX, dec, JULIA LOFTIN widow of MAJOR C. R. LOFTIN, his Daughters and the defendants LOUISA wife of the defendant STEPHEN GOODING, NATHAN PARKER, JOHN PARKER, NANCY PARKER, WILLIAM L. PARKER, children of his decd son ZEUSIS PARKER who died in the lifetime of the said JOHN PARKER Senior , intestate, his grandchildren, next of kin and heirs at law; Yours Oratores further shew unto your Honour that since the death of the said Intestate JOHN PARER, dec, your Orators DANIEL MILLER, JOHN DAVSE, and OWEN B. COX, the later having since decd, obtained letter of administration of the goods, chattles, rights and credits of the said intestate, to be granted to them by and out of the court of Pleas and Quarter Session of Lenoir County and by virtue there of possessed themselves o the personal estate and effects of the said intestate to a large amount and value and which more than sufficient to pay and satisfy his just debts and funeral expenses, your Orators further shew unto your Honour that the said OWEN B. COX on or about the day of --- AD 184- having first duly made his last will and testament in writing departed this life and appointed WILLIAM A. COX hereafter named executor of his said will in and by the said will is the probate thereof when produced will appears, And your Orators further shew unto your Honour that the said WILLIAM A. COX above after the death of the said testator duly proved the will in the court of Please & Quarterfor the county of JONES and possessed himself of the personal estate and effects of the said testator to an amount much more than sufficent to pay his just debts & funeral expenses, And your Orator further shew unto your Honour, that upon the death of the said Intestate JOHN PARKER decd and in the lifetime of the said OWEN B. COX your Orator together with the defendant being next of Kin and heir at law of the said intestate proceeded to make an actual partition or division of the negroes and real estate of the said intestate, according to their respective rights and interest - they being tenants in common of the same in the partition of one ninth to each of your petitioners, DANIEL MILLER, WINIFRED his wife, JOHN DAVISE & LITIA his wife, IMA MILLER & MARY his wife, OWNE B. COX & RACHEL his wife, MAJOR C. R. LOFTIN and JULIA his wife, and one sixth jointly to LOUISA GOODING, NATHAN PARKER, JOHN PARKER, NANCY PARKER & WILLIAM L. PARKER, they representing their draw father ZEADUS PARKER, a son of the said intestate JOHN PARKER And such partition was actually made & assigned to be made; inrespevtion of any advancement made by the said intestate in his lifetime to any of his children, his next of kin and of all advantage to be devised therefrom the same being served and intended to be enforced by the said parties upon the final settlement or division of the personal estate of the said intestate. Your orators further show unto your Honour that MAJOR C. R. LOFTIN the husband of the defendant JULIA LOFTIN departed this life after the division or partition of the said slaves and lands of the said intestate & consequently settled his possession the said slaves. Your orator shew unto your Honour that your orator DANIEL MILLER & JOHN DAVISE surviving administrators of the intestate JOHN PARKER dec after paying all the debts and funeral expenses of the said intestate & settling the said estate, have now in their hands of the estate of the said intestate the sum of $---- which has now been duly ascertained by an account take under the authority & by the direction of this Honorable court, being the resedue of said estate which is distributed as aforesaid between your Orators and the said defendants according to the ??? respecting the distribution of intestates personal estate. Your orator further shows unto your Honour that the said intestate JOHN PARKER, dec, in his lifetime upon the death of his Brother GABRIEL PARKER intestate in the state of Georgia, suceded as his next of kin and heir at law to a large and valuable personal and real estate in said state, consisting of a valuable plantation and large number of slaves and that the said intestate JOHN PARKER in his life time gave an advance to his son ZEASAS PARKER, the father of the defendants LOUISA GOODING, NATHAN PARKER, JOHN PARKER, NANCY PARKER & WILLIAM L. PARKER a tract of land lying and being in Lenoir County in Trent River on ? the sum of fifteen hundred dollars as or more to purchase the same and which said tract of land the said ZEANIS PARKER subsequently sold to JAMES NUNN and upon the removable of the said ZEANIS PARKER from this State to the State of Georgia, the said JOHN PARKER in order the ? to set up and establish in life the said ZEANIS PARKER in said state, upon his said removable there, gave and advanced to the said ZEANIS PARKER in ? bonds & notes upon & due from responsible individuals in said State the sum of fifteen hundred dollars , being the bonds or notes of certain citizens of Lee County in that state as your Orators have been informed by the name of SHOTWELL and further by way of advancement to the said ZEANIS PARKER permitted and gave to ZEASIS PARKER one years use and enjoyment of his said plantation & negroes which he inhabited in said State from his brother, GABRIEL PARKER, dec, together with the profits and produce therefore said year which your Orator have been informed & believe were not only worth but amounted to the sum of Eighteen hundred dollars and your Orators charge that the said JOHN PARKER departed this life intestate without ever receiving the possession of the said advancement or receiving any portion therefore, as of calling the said ZEASIS PARKER or any of his representatives to an account for the same, and that the defendant STEPHEN GOODING & LOUISA his wife, NATHAN PARKER, JOHN PARKER, NANCY PARKER, WILLIAM L. PARKER have had the full benefit and advantage of the said advancement to their Father, in the increased value and quanity of his estate upon a distribution of the sum ? amongst them, and to which they have suceeded as his children & next of kin, he having departed this life intestate in the lifetime of his father the intestate JOHN PARKER, dec - Your Orators shew unto your Honour that your Orators DANIEL MILLER & JOHN DAVISE surviving administrators of the intestate JOHN PARKER, dec are anxious and desirous of settling the Estate of them now Intestate and of distributing the said sum of & ---- being the entire resedue of the estate of the said intestate which has not been disposed of & divided among his said next of kin, between and among your Orators and the said defendants his next of kin according to the statue made respecting the distribution of Intestate estate, but your Orator charge and so over the fact to be that the defendants STEPHEN GOODING & LOUISA his wife, NATHAN PARKER, NANCY PARKER, JOHN PARKER, WILLIAM L. PARKER are not entitled to share equally in right of their Father ZEASIS PARKER in & to one sixth of the aforesaid clear resedue of the estate of the intestate JOHN PARKER with your Orator and the other defendants inas much as their said father ZEASIS PARKER was advanced in his lifetime by the said JOHN PARKER, dec and the said defendants will bring into hotchpot ? in the division of said resedue, the lands monies & profits which were so given by said JOHN PARKER, dec to their father ZEASIS PARKER ----- the defendants are bound to before they can claim any share or portion of the estate of the said intestate to which they are entitled ---- (repeating what has already been said) ----- the defendant RACHEL COX survived her husband, OWNE B COX and the said OWEN B. COX departed this life before he reduced into possession the share of the said RACHEL --- yet the Orators have been informed and believe that the said RACHEL COX hath for a valuable consideration sold and released her said estate and interest to the defendant WILLIAM A. COX, executor of OWNE B. COX for the benefit and advantage of the estate of his said testator ---- Orators are advised that the defendant JULIA LOFTIN having survived her husband MAJOR C. R. LOFTIN, is entitle in her own right to one ninth part of the aforesaid resedue of the estate ----- your Orators request the said defendants RACHEL COX, JULIA LOFTIN, WILLIAM A. COX Ex of OWNE B. COX, STEPHEN GOODING & LOUISA his wife, NATHAN, JOHN, NANCY & WILLIAM L. PARKER join and make a just and equal partition -- J. W. BRYAN Sol for complainant END OF DOCUMENT GEORGIA, LEE COUNTY An Inventory taken by OWEN JENKINS, JAMES GAY, WILLIAM TYSON & MICHAEL KING of the Estate of GARIEL G. PARKER Decd on 14th May 1834 NAMES OF NEGROES............AGES........PRICES 1. Littleton................35..........$600 2. Jack.................... 16...........550 3. Arthur.. 16.. 500 4. Lewis.. 15.. 500 5. Lamb 24 600 6. Henry 18 600 7. Ned 19 600 8. Alfrad 20 600 9. Jacob 15 600 10 Salley 7.5 11. Richmond 8 800 12. Simon 24 700 13. Hector 35 700 14. Oeree 26 650 15. Abram 30 650 16. Jeffey 14 400 17. Shelvey 14 18. Anaca 12 750 19. Patey 60 20. Elijah 13 21. Cynthia 12 22. Wright 5 23. Delplag 3 Worth of Patey - Delplag is $1600 24. Hamilton 1 25. Obedience 62 Worth of above two $200 26. Chaney 6 27. Tom 34 28. Helene 12 Worth of above three $1400 29. Caroline 6 30. Shephard 4 31. Linda 33 Worth not given 32. Quilla 14 33. Donus 8 34. Maria 6 35. Nanny 4 36. Lisa 2 Worth of above $1700 37. Celia 18 38. Lipsey 3 Worth of above 2 $600 39. Entries not readable 40. Dinah 20 450 41. Peter 49 550 42. George 35 800 43. Hanah 20 450 44. Derry 23 700 45. Martha 16 450 46. Daniel 25 700 47. Susannah 14 400 48. Nancy 14 400 49. Obedence ? 20 50. Jackson 3 51. Mary 1 Worth of above 3 $700 52. Clark 14 500 53. Rilley 12 450 54. Lakey 35 55. Rosey 4 56. Vicy 3 Worth of above 3 $700 57. Clarissa 22 58. Primus 12 59. Martha 6 60. Elvey 1 Worth of above 4 $1100 61. Gadsey 18 62. Missoura 2 months Worth of above 2 $500 63. Mozilla 30 64. Hector 12 65. Jim 10 66. Matilda 7 67. Dempsey 2 68. Harrison 1 Worth of above 6 $1400 69. Rody 14 450 70. Cloe 23 71. Washington 11 Bettie 33 to 44 (written in without a number) 72. Edmond 8 73. Berry 7 74 Maddison 5 75. Benjamin 3 76. Zagree 2 Worth of above 8 $2000 ? 77 Betsy 22 78. Jesse 4 79. Manda 2 Worth of above 3 $750 80. Fkira 60 200 81. Anaka 30 82. Sarah 14 83. Eli 8 84. Jean 10 85. Marian 5 86. Cuper 3 87. Rayford 1 Worth of above 8 $2000 88. Dolley 23 89. Marshall 5 months Worth of above 2 $600 90. Chaney 37 91. Willis 6 92 Harriett 4 Worth of above 3 $850 TOTAL $33,600 Amount of horses, mules, household And other property 4149 Amount of cash 1995 Total $39,744 Cash on bank $87