Location: Chatham County, Georgia
Deceased: Pray, John
Date Performed: 1819-12-08
Appraisers: Thomas P. Bond, Andrew Knox, James Bulloch
Estate Executors: John J. Maxwell, George M. Waters
Total Value of Property Appraised: $9545.60
Value of enslaved persons: $7700
Comments: Look for probate documents for John Pray in Wilkes, Chatham, Bryan and Liberty Counties.
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Est John Pray
Appraisement of Est Chatham County
Recorded in Book G folio 303
This [date omitted]
An Inventory and Appraisement of the Personal Estate (in Chatham County) of John Pray late of the County of Chatham, deceased, produced and shown to us by Jno. [John] J. Maxwell and George M. Waters qualified executors and made by virtue of a warrant of appraisement from the Court of Ordinary (of said Chatham County) to us directed and hereto attached.
Total $9545.60
Savannah 8th December 1819
Thomas P. Bond
Andrew Knox
James Bulloch
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| Name | Value | Description |
| Morris | 800 | carpenter |
| Johnny | 800 | carpenter |
| Tom | 800 | carpenter |
| Maria | 500 | |
| Murria [alt: Murrea] | 500 | |
| Hannah | 500 | |
| Salty (?) | 500 | |
| Isaac | 200 | “taylor” |
| Maria | 250 | child |
| Prescilla [alt: Priscilla] | 500 | |
| Nancy | 500 | |
| Yorrick | 600 | |
| Hester | 400 | |
| Harriott | 500 | |
| Martha | 250 | |
| Hamlet | 100 | child |
| Total 7700 | ||
| Property | ||
| Plate | 500 | |
| Library | 20 | |
| Glass and China Ware | 100 | |
| House & Kitchen furniture | 512 | |
| Beds and Bedding Bedsteads etc | 470 | |
| Wine | 240 | |
| Part of a bolt of Oznaburg | 3.6 |
Chatham County, Georgia, Court of Ordinary, Probate Records, probate records for John Pray, folder 66; Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/705489:8635 : accessed 14 Aug 2024), “Georgia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992” -> “Chatham” -> “Probate Records, Page-Putman, Folder 1-103,” images 1090-1091.