Jolliffe's Executors vs. Hite, et als. -- O.S. 170; N.S. 60-- Bill, 18th December, 1794. March, 1797, James Gibbs made defendant, and in April, 1798, abates as to him and revived as against his representatives. Complainant is Lewis Walker, executor of last will of Elizabeth Jollif, who was executor of William Jollif. Bill states, in February, 1771, Henry McCabe, William Gibbs, James Kirk, John Hite, Jr., Jacob and John Hite gave their bond to Elizabeth Joliffe, executrix of Wm. Joliffe, for £1,800. John Hite, Jr., died 177_, testate, John Hite's (Jr.) son, Jacob Obannion. Hite died 17__ without issue and his estate descended and devised to his sisters, Mary Hite, Sarah Buchanan and Katherine Lee. Bill is to compel payment by sale of Hite's lands. Defendants are, viz: Mary Hite, Pitt Buchanan and Sarah, his wife, Theoderick Bland Lee and Katherine, his wife. William Gibbs left James Gibbs, his eldest son and heir, then an infant, who took possession of part of the property sold by orator's testatrix to William Gibbs and John Hite, Jr., in Frederick County. James died intestate about 1797, unmarried, leaving William, Anne, Patty Gibbs, Mathew Frame and Massie, his wife, his heirs. Answer states Jacob Obannion Hite, son and heir of John Hite, Jr., died leaving Mary, Sarah and Catherine, his daughters. James Gibbs was alive 13th June, 1796. Will of John Hite of Berkeley County. Wife, Sarah; son, Jacob Obannion. (John's father "has been unfortunately killed by the hands of violence, and it is probable he has left no will proposes division between his son and John's brothers and sisters of that large tract of land lying in the Indian country in South Carolina, being part of an undivided tract held by father under a deed from the Cherokee Nation to Richard Pearis, the said Pearis's Indian son and testator's father.) Daughter, Mary; sister, Mary; sister, Elizabeth. Children, Jacob Obannion, Mary, Catherine, and an infant unbaptized. Dated 25th October, 1776. Recorded in Berkeley, 18th March, 1777. Deed 9th November, 1776, by Henry McCabe and James Kirk of Alexandria to William Gibbs and John Hite, Jr. Recorded in Frederick, 4th March, 1777.
