Rebecca Mastin Estate

Mastin, Rebecca, dec’d

Thomas Mastin is administrator for her estate.

APPRAISEMENT OF THE ESTATE of Rebeccah (Rebeca) Mastin decd, by Silas Ballard, Thomas Poland & John Waller on February the 21^st 1826. Sworn to be true by Thomas Mastin on 28 March 1826.

One Waggon & Harness

One horse

One mair

One Side Saddle

One chest

Four axes three hoes two cleves

One drawing knife

Two Reap hooks

Two plows

Two pair of horse chains

One Raw hide

One frat & hooks & spider

One Spinning Wheel

One Madoc?

Twenty head of hoggs

One yearling

Two Smoothing Irons

Three beads [beds] & Clothing

One negro boy Andrew

One negro girl Nancy

One Do

One negro boy Sam

One pair Piggen & Churns

Two dishes one basan [basin] & a half dozen pots

One pair of Stilliards

One Logchain

Slaves are one boy Andrew ($300), one girl Nancy ($300), then ditto on Nancy ($250), boy Vance ($600?),

Sold are two “Fellows”, two Women, one Girl and one Buoy, purchased by Wm. S [L?] Belser, Wm Mastin, Edward Lewis or Thomas Mastin.

Received of Thomas Mastin Administrator of the Estate of Rebeca Mastin Decd three hundred and Twenty Dollars in Full of my distribution Share as one of the Legatees July the 3^rd 1827. Wm Mastin (sig on a note)

Recd of Thomas Mastin Admr of Rebecca Mastin decd three hundred & Twenty Dolllars 68 ¼ cents in full of my distribution share. December 28^th 1826. H C Howard (sig on a note)

Received of Thomas Mastin Administrator of the Estate of Rebeca Mastin Decd three hundred and Seventy Five Dollars in Full of my distribution Share. Feby the 22^nd 1834.

Harmon? B. Howard (sig on a note)

Another partial piece of paper, showing “three/in full of my distribution”

INVENTORY of SALE FEB THE 22^ND 1826 of the estate of Rebecca Mastin Decd.

Buyers are: Hadly C. Howard, H. C. Howard, George Shackleford, Thomas Mastin, William Mastin, Edward Bell, Thomas Loftin, John Buck, David Finley, Thomas Poland?, William Shepherd, William __?__, James Sharp, Jesse Bozman, William Cook, James Barber, ? Monk, Anderson Hatley, with notes on Jacob G. McWhorter. Hadley C. Howard, Thomas Mastin, and William Mastin purchase the bulk of the estate.

Total sale amount is $1048.43 ¾.

AMOUNT CURRENT February 25^th 1834

Amount of Sale marked “A” 1048.43 ¾

Interest 1/1/1827 to this date 587.12

Amount of Sale marked “B” 1628.31 ¼

Interest 1/1/1829 to this date 673

TOTAL $3926.87

Minus court and seven years of administrator fees leaves $3723 for distribution to heirs.

Sworn in court by Thomas Mastin, administrator on February 25^th 1834.

The following entries appear in the Orphans Court books:

Orphans Court Bk 2, Jan Term 1826, p. 163. Orders to Thomas Mastin on estate of Rebekah Mastin. No heirs listed. Does list appraisers.

Orphans Court Bk 3, p. 69, order to Thomas Mastin to sell personal property of Rebeckah Mastin.

Orphans Court Bk 4, p 42.

[Elizabeth Mastin, Thomas Mastin Admr, ordered to file Final est. Jan. 8, 1834. Is this Thomas’ wife?]

Orphans Court Bk 4, p 62. Tuesday Morning February 25^th 1835, final settlement of Rebecca Mastin estate.

Ordered that Thomas Mastin pay William Mastin the sum of four hundred and seventy five dollars and 37 ½ cents, being his portion of said Estate.

Ordered that Thomas Mastin keep four hundred and sixty five Dollars and 37 ½ cents being his portion of said estate.

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay to Hadley C Howard in right of his wife Mary the sum of five hundred and sixty five Dollars and 37 ½ cents being her portion of said Estate.

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay to Henry G Howard in right of his wife Magory the sum of four hundred and sixty five dollars and 37 ½ cents, being her portion of said estate. [Note: daughter’s name given as McGairy in family history.]

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay to Peter B Mastin the sum of four hundred and sixty five dollars and 37 ½ cents, being his portion of said Estate.

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay to Haman [Harmon?] B Howard in right of his wife Lucy the sum of four hundred and sixty five dollars and 37 ½ cents, being her portion of said Estate. [Note: daughter’s name given as Sarah in family history.]

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay over to the representatives of John Mastin when known, the sum of four hundred and sixty five Dollars and 37 ½ cents, being his portion of said estate.

Ordered that said Administrator as aforesaid pay over to the representatives of Charlotte Mastin when known, the sum of four hundred and sixty five Dollars and 37 ½ cents, being her portion of said estate.

[Note that Charlotte Mastin, who married Joseph Jackson Edwards, and her brother John Mastin both moved to Mississippi. Charlotte to Yalobusha/Calhoun County, and John to Noxubee Co.]

Ordered by the Court that the receipts of the several heirs which have been given to said Administrator acknowledging full satisfaction of some of the above estate demands be recorded.

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Thomas Mastin appears in court to return the receipt of Peter B. Mastin for his share of the estate.