Includes application for pre-emption to buy swamp lands, and affidavits of witnesses, and a listing of swamp lands by legal description. Chattel mortgages, 1930-1932. Arranged chronologically, the records provide name of mortgager and mortgagee, date of filing, and details on conditions of the mortgage. Additional scattered files between 1890 and 1940 indexed by name. Both will or estate may contain, among other documents, executor's account, notice of probate, statements of creditors, inventory of the estate, petition for final settlement, letters testamentary, and decisions on claims.
Guardianship can pertain either to minors or the insane.
Some case files for 1835-1889 are missing. Documents filed in court concerning the settlement of deceased individuals' estates. Hand written copies of the original will made by an individual. Provides executors' names, details on real and personal estates, names of heirs, and some entries list funeral expenses. Condemnation records, 1902-1919.