On 17 July 1818, Gilbert Purvis, John Johnston, Felix Powell, and Moses Harrelson signed an Administrative Bond in Horry County, South Carolina to administer the Estate of one James Purvis, Deceased. I wrote about this Administrative Bond here:
https://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2012/04/horry-district-administration-bond.html
The Bond reads as follow:
Gilbert Purvis - Horry District, SC - March 1818[1]
Recorded March 1818
State of South Carolina }
Horry District } Know all men by these presents that we John Johnston, Gilbert Purvis, Moses Harrelson and Felix Powell are holden and firmly bound unto Henry Durant Esquire Ordinary for aforesaid District in the full and just sum of Ten Thousand to be paid to the said Henry Durant or to his successors of this District or their certain attorney or officers, To which payment will and truly be made, and we bind ourselves and every of us own and every of our heirs, executors, administrators, for the whole and in the whole jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated the Seventeenth Day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and in the 43rd year of America Independence.The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound John Johnston and Gilbert Purvis administrators of the goods, chattels and credits of James Purvis deceased do make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular, the goods, chattels, credits of the said deceased, which shall come into the hands of knowledge of the said John Johnston, Gilbert Purvis, or unto the hands of any other person or persons for them…”
if you recall some of my post, 1818 is about the year that most of the Chesterfield County Purvis families decided to migrate westward. Especially so with the Gilbert, James F. and Joseph Purvis families. There may also have been a John and Alexander Purvis that left with this group. Definitely, they all were closely related and there is no doubt that a James Purvis passed away sometime around July 1818.
But who was this James Purvis?
In the above post I stated that I believed him to be a son of Gilbert Purvis and the Father of James P. J. Purvis and William H. H. Purvis. After further research, I do not believe this James Purvis to be the father of these two men. Their father made the trip to Mississippi and shows up in tax records to about 1833 and his name is James Johnston Purvis or Johnston James Purvis.
I do still believe that James Purvis who died about July 1818 is the son of Gilbert Purvis and father of a James Purvis, Jr. involved in this lawsuit.
June 1817
Edy Norris }
Vs }
James Purvis Jun.} On motion of Mr. BULLARD Solicitor for the Defendant James Purvis Jun. giving security satisfactory to Commissioner that he will not remove the negroes JACK and NANN mention in the case out of the limits of the state until the final decision of the right to the said negroes by this court in this ne exeat issued in this case be dissolved, that he abide the decree of this court relation to said negroes JACK and NANN. [2]
Also in recent days, I have found another document related to the death of James Purvis.
Transcription:
NOTICE
I FOREWARN all persons from trading for a note of hand given by me to James Purvis, Senr. Late of Chesterfield District, for one hundred dollars dated the first day of January 1818, and payable the first day of January 1819, with conditions thereto providing I got sufficient titles to a tract of land purchase by me from the said Purvis, and as I have failed getting sufficient titles, I am determined not to pay the same unless compelled by law. Haywood Todd
Chesterfield C. H. Dec. 29, 1818 44-Y
This document/Notice clearly states that James Purvis, Sr. is deceased and it’s dated Dec 29, 1818 in the same year that the Administrative Bond was issued on the estate of James Purvis.
Land deed between James E Purvis and Haywood Todd
28 chs to a corner, thence S. E. 8-56 Chs to …. Thence N22-50 Chs to a Pine 38 thence NW 4 - 25 Chs to a corner thence SW 76-16 Chs to a corner thence NW 14-33 Chs to the beginning Pine containing one thousand Eighty-one [1081] acres. Reference being had to the above Plat will more plainer Shew the shape and boundary of the Same, together and with all and singular the rights members hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining unto the Said Haywood Todd his heirs and afsigns forever, and I do hereby bind myself my heirs executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend against every other Person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof. Witnefs my hand and seal, this the 29th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and seventeen and in the forty-seven year of the independence of the United States of America.
Assigned, Sealed and … in presence of }
Hugh Craig
Phillip Sellers
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1. Horry County South Carolina, Horry District Administration Bonds 1803-1818 (Conway, Horry County, South Carolina: Probate Office, n.d.), Administration Bond - Gilbert Purvis, page 71.
2.Lee G. Barrow, Cheraw District, South Carolina, Court of Equity: Volume 1: Minutes,1801-1823 (Gainesville, Georgia: Bargraphica, 2012), page 41.
3. Camden Gazette, "Forewarn Notice," Camden Gazette, Camden, SC, 28 January 1819, Vol 3, Issue 146, page 2, Failure to obtain title to land.
4. South Carolina State Library Digital Collections - https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/discover
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