Legal complaint, Barker v. FitzSimons et al., page 2 (paragraphs 5–8)

A typewritten page on aged paper, continuing the body of the complaint. Several phrases are inserted in ink in a clerical hand, with longer marginal notations along the lower portion.

5th: That Susan Milliken the sister and devisee of said Edward P. Milliken, departed this life intestate on the Third day of May, 1883 leaving surviving her as her only heirs at law and distributees, her brother the said John B. Milliken and the children of her predeceased sister Ellen Barker, above named as Plaintiff and Defendants.

6th: That the said John B. Milliken departed this life on the First day of November 1889, leaving a last Will and Testament dated February 24th 1881, whereby he had devised all of his Estate, Real and Personal, to his sister Susan Milliken, who however had predeceased him.

7th: That the only heirs at law and distributees of said John B. Milliken are the children of his deceased sister Ellen Barker, above named as Plaintiff and as Defendants.

8th: That the Real Estate of which the said John B. Milliken died seized, consists of: (a) a tract of land in Williamsburg County between Lanes and Salters stations on the Northeastern Railroad, containing One Hundred and Seventy-eight Acres, more or less; Bounded on the West by lands now or late of Captain John A. Salters, on the North by land now or late of John W. Gordon, on the East and Southeast by the Northeastern Railroad and on the South and Southwest by land now or late of C.W. Olsen. (b) One-half Interest in above named CASTLE RUIN TRACT, of which Edward P. Milliken died seised. © All that Plantation or Tract of land on Cooper River in Berkeley County known as NORTH MULBERRY [struck through, illegible] and certain Pineland Tracts as described in the Deed of Conveyance of [handwritten ink insertion:] James Tupper, Master in Equity, dated 17 December 1867, Recorded 18 February 1868 in the Registry of Mesne Conveyances for Charleston County, Book “D” #15 p 151, excepting from said Pineland Tracts, some small tracts which were conveyed by said John B. Milliken during his lifetime to certain parties. All of which Plantation and Pineland [insertion above the line:] (tracts), however, had been mort-

[handwritten ink continuing in lower margin:] gaged by the said John B. Milliken in his life time: (d) His one half of a Tract of Land known as “Ellery” on the Monck’s Corner Road adjoining the Mulberry Plantation on the West. [It] had descended to him from his father Thomas Milliken as [also from] his sister Susan Milliken and his brother Adam T. Milliken — the other moiety of said Tract having in like manner descended to children of the late Ellen Barker above named as Plaintiffs and Defendants.