Following is an inquiry I recently posted to the HOLMES venue at GenForum "I'm looking for information on a LWT or estate administration for Nathaniel Nesbit Holmes who died before 1825 perhaps in or near Augusta, Richmond County, GA. He was survived by at least one child, a daughter named Sarah Ann Holmes. Sarah Ann Holmes married Thomas D. Pate 3 Feb 1825 in Augusta, Richmond County, GA. Thomas D. Pate apparently died about 1827. No evidence of children of this union has been found. Sarah Ann Holmes Pate married Samuel Hopkins Peck 24 Dec 1828 in Augusta, Richmond County, GA. The 1840 census enumeration for Samuel H Peck in Richmond County, GA indicates the presence of several slaves in the household. It is not known if these slaves came from a Holmes legacy, from a Pate legacy or were acquired by Peck. Any assistance or leads appreciated. Both Holmes and Pate are sometimes rendered as DeHolmes and DePate Joel Pate"