Included in this series are miscellaneous loose estate records filed with the Cobb County Court of Ordinary, 1837 to 1877. These are mostly papers submitted by administrators or executors of estates as required by law to document the settling of the estates of deceased citizens. The most commonly found documents are: (1) administrator's bonds, (2) inventories and appraisements of es­tates and sale bills, (3) guardian's bonds, (4) letters of administration, (5) orders of dismission of admin­istrators, (6) orders to sell lands, (7) returns of widow's support, (8) probated wills, (9) receipts taken by an administrator or executor when he made payments in settling an estate