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Lentz Probate Records
Jacob G. Lentz was born in North Carolina, married Sarah Emerson about 1819, possibly in Limestone County, Alabama, moved to Missouri in 1820 and then to Texas. He arrived in Bastrop County, Texas, as a Stephen F. Austin colonist in 1832. He was granted a league of land near Red Rock and was killed by Indians in 1840 on the banks of a creek that has come to be known as Lentz Branch. The following proceedings are on record at the courthouse in Bastrop, Texas. Volume B, Page 93, Probate Minutes Monday, February 22nd, 1841 This day a regular term of the Probate Court met at the Court House in the Town of Bastrop, present and presiding Greenlief Fisk Judge of Probate, Preson Conlee, Sheriff, Court being called proceeded to business. Mrs. Sarah Lentz petitioned the Court praying the Court to be appointed Administratrix of the Succession of Jacob G. Lentz, Decd., and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that due and legal Notice of said application had been given and no objections made thereto. It was therefore considered by the Court that the said Sarah Lentz be appointed Administratrix of the Succession of the said Jacob G. Lentz, Decd., and that she be required to enter into Bond and Security as the law in such cases requires, and that citation issue to W. R. Hancock, (?) Patterson, and Henry Bright, requiring them to take an Inventory and appraise the property and effects of the said deceased, and the same so made out, to be returned to this Court on or before the next Term hereof.
Volume B, Page 76, Probate Records Republic of Texas
§ Know all men by these presents that I, Sarah Lentze as principal and Edward Burleson & James Doyle, as securities are held and firmly bound unto Greenlief Fisk, Probate Judge, or his successors in office, in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made we bind Ourselves, Our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 23rd day of February A.D. 1841. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas, the above bound Lentze has been appointed administratrix of the Estate of Jacob Lentz, Dec'd. Now if the said Lentz shall well and truly administer upon all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of said Jacob Lentze, Dec'd., shall make and return to this Court a true and correct Inventory of all the Goods, Chattels and Credits belonging to said Estate of whatsoever kind and shall do and perform all things to the legal administration of said Estate, and make a perfect showing thereof of the same, when thereunto required so to do by this Court, then the foregoing to be null and void, otherwise to remain full force and [?}. Given under our hands and seals this day and date above written.
Signed Sarah Lentze {seal}
Volume B, Page 77, Probate Records Republic of Texas
§ To all whom these presents may come, Greetings: Know ye that whereas, Jacob Lentze, late of the County of Bastrop, having died and Mrs. Lentze having made application to the Probate Judge of said county for Letters of Administration upon the estate of the said Dec'd. We therefore, desirous that the said estate should be faithfully administered upon for the disposing of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said Dec'd agreeably to the provisions of the law in such cases, made and provided and also for the legal demanding and collecting of all the dues and credits of whatsoever kind due and owing to the said Dec'd and which belonged to him at the time of his death, and for the discharging and paying of all that the deceased at the time of his death was indebted as far as the Goods, Chattels and Credits of this said Estate intends and the law requires. We therefore reposing special trust and full confidence in the Honor skill and capacity of Sarah Lentze do hereby authorize her to administer upon said Estate, requiring of her the said Sarah Lentze to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of said Dec'd that may come to her knowledge and to exhibit the same together with a just and true account of your administration whenever thereunto required, so to do by this Court. By the Terms of these presence we commit full power, Ordain, Constitute you the said Lentze Administratrix of the Estate of Jacob Lentze, Dec'd.
Volume C, Page 5 Order Appointing Commissioner to Partition Headright Case No. 182, 1849 Partition of 1/2 League
of Land It is Ordered and Decreed by the Court that partition be made of the half League of Land a part of the Headright of said dec'd between the Heirs of said Jacob Lentze. To wit: Sarah Lentze, the widow of said decedent and Henry C., Eunis E., Ann Eliza, Amanda H., and Thos. H. Lentze and Mary J. Russell and that John Harvey, John H. Jenkins and A. W. Hill be appointed Commissioners and Ordered to make said partition setting apart one equal half of said half League of Land in point of value to the said Sarah Lentze, and the remaining half to be equally divided between said Heirs.
Additional records not shown here, as listed below, are on file in Bastrop County: Volume B, Page 107, Probate Minutes Volume B, Page 243, Probate Minutes Volume B, Page 316, Probate Minutes Volume B, Page 327, Probate Minutes Volume B, Page 355, Probate Minutes Volume C, Page 10, Probate Minutes Volume C, Page 16, Probate Minutes
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