Chesterfield County SC Estates~Estate Folder #201-Thompson B. Powell

This is a new series of posting, appearing every Sunday, on selected Estate Folders from the Estate files of Chesterfield County. No known estates exist for the period before the Civil War. They were destroyed with the burning of the Courthouse. There are a few “Equity Records” in the State Archives. Do not overlook this valuable resources if you are looking for ancestors in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. 

Today we will be looking at the following Estate folders:

Folder #201
Thompson B. Powell ¹
This estate folder begins at image #1085 and ends with image #1110.(images 1085-1110) 

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Thompson B. Powell was an early and successful planter in Chesterfield County. He was born in 1802 and his parents are unknown. 

He married about 1834 Mary ‘Polly’ Boatwright daughter of Lewis Boatwright and Sarah Lundy also a well known family within the country.   

Thompson and Sarah had 4 children; 3 daughters and a son.

• Mary E. Powell, married William Monroe Hurst
• Richard Thompson Powell, married M. W. T.
• Ann Rebecca Powell,  married Ferguson Hale Smith
• Ellen E. Powell, never married

Thompson died about 1866. I have not found an exact date for his death but there are clues within his probate folder (Folder #201) and Chesterfield County Land Deeds.

Probate Folder #201.
Richard Thompson Powell submitted an application for Letters of administration on his Dad’s estate on 11 June 1866. (Image #1090). Letters were granted and the Administration Bond was signed on 25 June 1866. (Image 1108 & 1109)

Image 1109

Image 1108

Appointed appraiser’s for the estate were S. D. Timmons, Michael Davis (my 3rd Great Grandfather) and G. R. Boatwright.

Documents within the estate folder though they don't contain a death date clearly shows that Thompson B. Powell died sometime time in early 1866.  Image 1109 above dated 11 June 1866 is the earliest dated document within the estate folder thus supporting the fact that Thompson B. Powell passed away sometime before 11 June 1866. 



Chesterfield County, SC, Deed Book 4, Page 321; Contain a land deed between W. M. Hurst & Wife to Samuel Powell, William M. Hurst and wife Ellen are selling off 57 acres of land allocated to them [William M. Hurst and his wife Mary E. [Powell] Hurst] in the division of the estate of the late Thompson B. Powell, 7 April 1873. Thompson B. Powell was granted 257 acres on Abrams Creek, 12 Oct 1857, Book 89, page 299.²









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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-1-19384-39383-52?cc=1911928 : accessed 12 March 2016), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0153-0227 > image 1085 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Deed Book 4: page 321, W. M. Hurst & Wife to Samuel Powell,; Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.