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Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, Mrs. M.P. Brooks, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, Mrs. M.P. Brooks, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 4 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Memorandum Of Evidence, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Memorandum Of Evidence, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Memorandum of evidence Nuse Ireys (?) in relation to the petition filed by Mrs. Brooks to account of Sam'l Ivey one of the Executors of the estate of William Brooks. Includes statements that Ivey never took possession of the enslaved woman named Isabella, or the enslaved woman named Mary, nor did he think he had the right to do so.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 365 acres and 14 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Receipt For Taking Up An Enslaved Person, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Receipt For Taking Up An Enslaved Person, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for payment for taking up an enslaved boy named Moses


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1830, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1830, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 20 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1831, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1831, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 1380 acres and 15 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1835, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1835, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 370 acres of land and 12 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1828, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1828, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 75 acres of land and 20 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1832, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1832, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 1100 acres of land and 15 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1834, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1834, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 87 acres of land and 17 enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Account Of The Administration Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased,, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Account Of The Administration Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased,, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Account of the Administration of the estate of William Brooks, deceased, including jail fees and other payments on behalf or for enslaved persons


Brooks, William - Exceptions To The Accounts Of Samuel Ivey, Executor Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Submitted By Mary Brooks, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Exceptions To The Accounts Of Samuel Ivey, Executor Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Submitted By Mary Brooks, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Exceptions to the accounts of Samuel Ivey, executor of the estate of William Brooks, submitted by Mary Brooks, documenting goods and services used by Samuel Ivey, for which he did not account for, inclduing the work of an enslaved woman named Isabella, in the possession of Robert Fields, and the work of an enslaved woman named Mary.


Brooks, William - Responses To Exceptions Attributed To Samuel Ivey, Filed By Dr. Lattimore, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Responses To Exceptions Attributed To Samuel Ivey, Filed By Dr. Lattimore, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Responses to exceptions attributed to Samuel Ivey, filed by Dr. Lattimore, inlcuding statements about the location and current owners of the enslaved woman Isabella and Mary.


Brooks, William - Sales Of Enslaved Persons Belonging To The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Sales Of Enslaved Persons Belonging To The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Sales of enslaved persons belonging to the estate of William Brooks, deceased, including Nicholas and Patterson (sold together), Big [obscured], Joe, Moses, Jesse, Ned, Sally + son (sold together), Lani, Willim and Oliver (sold together), Eadies and Claiborne. List also includes the names of purchasers.


Brooks, William - Exceptions To The Annual Settlement Of The William Brooks Estate, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Exceptions To The Annual Settlement Of The William Brooks Estate, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Record of the goods and services that the executor of the estate of William Brooks had not charged himself with using, including the labor of an enslaved woman named Leah, for the year 1821.


Brooks, William - Summons In Re: The Matter Of The Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of William Brooks, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Summons In Re: The Matter Of The Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of William Brooks, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Order to the Sherrif of Adams County to cite all persons interested in the sale of the estate of William Brooks, to come to court and explain why the enslaved persons should not be sold.


Brooks, William - Estate Of William Brooks Deceased In Account With Samuel Ivey One Of The Executors, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Estate Of William Brooks Deceased In Account With Samuel Ivey One Of The Executors, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Estate administration record documenting expenditures on behalf of the estate in 1830, including the hire of enslaved persons


Brooks, William - Estate Administration Record For William Brooks, Deceased, 1834, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Estate Administration Record For William Brooks, Deceased, 1834, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Estate of William Brooks deceased in account with Samuel Ivey, admr., including payments for the labor of enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Estate Administration Record For William Brooks, Deceased, 1830, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Estate Administration Record For William Brooks, Deceased, 1830, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Expenditures by Lattimer, Executor of the estate of William Brooks, deceased, including payments made for the labor of enslaved persons.


Brooks, William - Petition To Sell Enslaved Persons Belonging To The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Petition To Sell Enslaved Persons Belonging To The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Petition to sell the enslaved persons belonging to the estate of William Brooks, deceased, in order to pay the remaining debts of the estate.


Brooks, William - Overseers Contract Between William Brooks And David Ford Harris, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Overseers Contract Between William Brooks And David Ford Harris, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Overseers contract between William Brooks and David Ford Harris, for services provided at Cotton Fields Plantation, located on St. Catherine's Creek.


Brooks, William - Statement Of Executors Regarding The Distribution Of The Estate, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Statement Of Executors Regarding The Distribution Of The Estate, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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State ment from Lattimore and Ivey regarding their inability to divide and distribute the estate due to lack of funds, and a request to sell some land from the estate.


Brooks, William - Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, With David Lattimore And Samuel Ivey, Executor., Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, With David Lattimore And Samuel Ivey, Executor., Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Envelope for probate records for the estate of William Brooks, deceased


Brooks, William - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of William Brooks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Order for the inventory and appraisal of the estate of William Brooks, deceased, including the following enslaved persons: a man Nicholas aged 50, a woman Patience aged 40, a boy Henry aged 11, a girl Edy aged 7, a girl Mary aged 4, a boy Claiborne aged 3, a woman Leah aged 50, Moses aged 13. Jessee aged 11, Sally aged 7, Ned aged 2, Jack aged 40, Leah aged 21, William 4 months, Bob aged 39, Sam aged 55, Joe aged 48, Sylvester (age not given), Priscilla (age not given), and James and Wincey recorded as "very old of …