Court for November 28, 1821. Suit in Chancery. Sterling E. Harrison, Theophilus Harrison, Edmund Harrison and Mary Ann, Cornelius and Charles Eaton Haynes, who are infant children of Martha Haynes who together with the said Sterling E., Theo.; and Edmund were children of Theo. Harrison, dec'd. and together with Elizabeth L. Harrison were devisees of Lewis Hicks, dec'd. against Phil Claiborne, Exor. of Sally Hicks, dec'd. who was Exor. of Lewis Hicks, dec'd. and James B. Claiborne and Sally Lewis and Martha Eliza Lewis by the said Phil Claiborne, their next friend. Ordered that Estate of Lewis Hicks, deceased, be divided into two equal parts. . . and that one half of the land. . . be assigned to James B. Claiborne, the devisee of Sally Hicks, deceased and that the other half of the land be sold. . . and transfer to the complainants, Theophilus Harrison, Edmund Harrison and Sterling E. Harrison one bond each, and to the three infants complainants, Mary Ann, Cornelius, and Charles Eaton Haynes on bond thereof in right of their mother, Martha Haynes formerly Harrison, daughter of Theo. Harrison and one of the devisees of Lewis Hicks, dec'd. to be transferred to their guardian; one bond transfer to . . . they divide equally between Sally Lewis Rieves and Martha E. Rives, daughters of Willis Rieves.
Order Book 29, page 233, Brunswick County, Virginia