Amanuensis Monday~Summons to Sale Lands of John Ellis

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
 

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is a Summons to Sale Lands of John Ellis, 1872.¹


Transcription:
The State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield}
By Hugh Craig Judge of Probate
To Elisha Ellis Sr., Rebecca Ann Odom, Rachel Bone, Jacob Ellis, John J. Ellis, Wesley Ellis, Christian Kifsiah [Kissiah], Effy Ann Gainy, William Smothers and Elisha Ellis, Jr. legal heirs and representative of John Ellis Greetings:
 
You are hereby required to appear at the Court of probate, to be holden at Chesterfield Court House for Chesterfield County, on the 27^th day of December, A. D. 1872, to shew cause, if any you can. why the Real Estate of John Ellis deceased, Situate in Said County on Bear Creek, bounding lands of A. M. Tucker, Elisha Ellis, Sr., W. B. Davis and others and containing four hundred [400] acres more or lefs Should not be divided or Sold, allotting to the Said heirs at law the Share or Shares to which each one is entitled according to their respective legal rights.
Given under my hand and seal this 15^th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and seventy Two and in the 97^th year of American Independence.
s/Hugh Craig
Judge of Probate

There are two Probate Folder for John Ellis.

Probate Folder #285 can be accessed here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-35028-53?cc=1911928


Probate Folder #308 can be accessed here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-35897-54?cc=1911928

If you know the relationship of John Ellis to the individuals named within this document I would like to hear from you. 







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[1] “South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-35866-15?cc=1911928 : accessed 15 May 2016), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0282-0330 > image 954 of 1448; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.