Estate of Jeremiah B. Foster, Dec’d
Oct [__], 1816 — George Foster, adm’r
To Cash paid James Jones — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Littleton Rice — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Zachariah [surname] — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Farnandis — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Philip [Callahan] — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Jos’h McBrice — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid Wm [Paquet] — [amount illegible] — In full
To Cash paid George Foster — [amount illegible] — In full
Total: $192.33
Transcription: square brackets [ ] indicate letters/words not fully legible in the source image.

Estate of Jeremiah b. Foster, dec’d — as returned by Geo. S. Foster, adm’r
Sales bills as returned — $[207].72
Cash rec’d since from [_______] [_______] after the [_______] — $[17].25
H. [Morrow?]
Cash debts due him by — $12[.00]
Benj. Mabry — $[256].97
Against commissions allowance &c for his services on this business — $[10.__]
[Balance?] — $225.[13]
Cash paid out by adm’r — $192.33
$32.80
Sale of the effects and ordinary
fees for filing account and making distribution of Estate — $[6—]
[—] — $20.30
Balance for widow & two children:
For the widow — $8.93[n]
one third —
For two legatees — share for each — $8.93[n]
Totals — $17.86[n]
[Calculation made by]
[signature]
Transcription note: [square brackets] indicate letters/words or cents not fully legible in the source image.

Jeremiah B. Foster — Citation / Docket (Transcription)
Left page (note):
This is to Certify that
the within citation has been
lawfully Published by me
George Hicks [Shff/Shf]
Right page (docket):
Citation on the
Effects of Jerem[iah]
Foster — [Dec’d]
72
Note: [square brackets] mark letters or words not fully legible in the source image.

STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, }
[Union] District. }
By William Rice, Esquire, Ordinary of the said District.
WHEREAS George E. Foster hath applied to me for Letters of Administration
on all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Jeremiah
Foster, late of the District aforesaid, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all, and singular, the kindred and
creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me, at our next
Ordinary’s Court for the said District, to be holden at [Union Court House]
on the First Monday of February next, to shew cause, if any, why the said
administration should not be granted.
GIVEN under my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Fifteen, and in the thirty Ninth
year of American Independence.
Wm Rice [seal]

An Inventory of the Goods and
Chattels of Jeremiah Foster Deceas’d
the 21st Feby 1815
one cow and calf — $ 10 00
one cow — 7 00
one heifer — 4 00
one bull — 7 00
one small Do — 3 50
one mare — 40 00
one colt — 10 00
ten head of hogs — 20 00
one pair of plow harnesses — 1 00
one handsaw and Drawing knife — 1 25
two axes — 3 50
two pots — 3 50
one oven and one spider and pothooks — 3 00
one cotton wheel and cards — 1 25
one pair of cotton cards — 1 00
two trays — 0 37½
one pickling tub and one washing tub — 1 50
two bridles — 0 25
two plows one hoe and tomahawk — [1 10?]
one mattock — 2 00
one Earthen Dish, five plates, four cups and saucers, one bowl, one [mug],
pitcher. — 3 [—] 37½
two pewter basons one plate — 3 11 00
seven Spoons — 0 50
two bottles one tumbler — 0 50
one razor case and Shaving boxe — 0 25
two tin waiters — 0 75
one water pail piggin and Churn — 0 75
two chairs — 0 75
one trunk — 2 00
Brought over — 130 18

one table — 4 00
Set knives and five forks — 1 00
one mans saddle — 7 00
one womans saddle — 12 00
one loom — 3 00
two beds bedsteads and furniture — 30 00
one Shot gun and one sword — 5 00
one fire shovel — 0 75
one officers hat — 1 00
one hammer two awls and gimblets — 0 75
two bed quilts — 4 00
some seed Cotton $2.50 pr Cwt — 2 50
two Raw calf Skins — 0 75
four hundred feet of plank — 3 00
one blowing horn — 0 25
202 75
[margin note, vertical:] Appraisement of the Effects of Jermia Foster decd.
We John [Briggs?], William [Hames?] and John Foster appraisers of the
Estate of J. Foster decd do hereby certify that the list in [page] above is a
true appraisement of the Estate aforesaid as shewn to us by the
Administrator—
[signatures:] John Foster · [William Hames?] · [John Briggs?]

Transcription: Estate Sale/List (South Carolina, c. 1810s–1820s)
Nathaniel Foster — one [cow] — [$—]
John Foster — two calf hides — $1.00
Absolom Baly — one pair of plow hames — $2.00
Patsey Foster — one pot — $2.00
Patsey Foster — one pot & hooks — $1.62½
Patsey Foster — one spider — $1.12½
Nathaniel Foster — one oven — $1.93¾
George Foster — one mare and bridle — $43.00
John Fowler — one horse colt — $10.12½
Jarrot Foster — one man’s saddle — $6.16½
Patsey Foster — one hundred wt. of cotton — $2.02½
James Haney — one officers hat — $1.00
Thomas Foster — one sword — $2.12½
Patsey Foster — five knives and forks — $0.87½
Patsey Foster — one lot of pewter — $3.75
John Venbrick — one knife — $0.12½
Fred Foster — one shot gun — $11.25
John Foster — one Fore Shooter — $6.12½
Patsey Foster — one woman’s saddle — $15.62½
Patsey Foster — one cow and calf — $14.00
Patsey Foster — one household stuff — $1.00
Robert Foster — one bull — $3.12½
Absolom Baly — one bull — $10.00
John Foster — one heifer — $5.00
Patsey Foster — one cow — $9.62½
Fred Foster — one sow — $4.00
Hannah [Baiggs] — two barrows — $6.00
John Foster — one sow — $2.12½
Absolom Baly — one pair of [cart wheels] — $2.[30]
Foot note (faint): Amt $207.72; clerk’s note about distribution [to the widow & heirs].

Sale Bill of Jeremiah Foster’s Estate (1815) — Page 2 Transcription
Corrections applied: G. S. Foster; Patsey Foster (not Fortune); Wm. Millar (not Wilson).
Isaac Foster — one hammer, two gimlets — $0.50
Patsey Foster — one walnutt table — $5.00
Patsey Foster — one loom — $2.00
Patsey Foster — the earthen ware and bottles — $4.18¾
John Fowler — one brass & iron fire irons — $1.06¼
Patsey Foster — one bason, thread, spoon moulds — $7.11¾
Patsey Foster — one waiter and pewter plate — $0.25
Patsey Foster — one pail, piggin & churn — $0.30
Pleasant Foster — one razor and strop [box] — $0.62½
Patsey Foster — two chains — $0.50
Patsey Foster — one fire shovel — $0.75
Patsey Foster — one trunk — $2.43¾
Patsey Foster — one bed & side of furniture — $12.36
Patsey Foster — one bed quilt — $1.12½
Patsey Foster — one bed quilt — $1.75
Isaac Foster — one handsaw — $0.75
G. S. Foster — one drawing knife — $1.12½
Isaac Foster — one tomahawk — $0.25
Patsey Foster — one axe — $2.[6¼]
Wm. Millar — one axe — $2.[6¼]
Wm. Millar — one plow — $1.50
Absolom Baly — one plow — $11.25
Absolom Baly — one mattock — $1.25
Note: Brackets [ ] mark uncertain words or cents (e.g., “$2.[6¼]”). Amounts follow the $ . __½ style common in the period.