Bertie  COUNTY  NC Estate  Land Division William Bishop

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DIVISION OF PROPERTY - WILLIAM BISHOP - BERTIE COUNTY 

The document is written in brown pen on lined paper.
It is folded into fourths and on the back it says: 

Wm J. Bishop et all,....order for County to divide
Land. Powell et all. To Sept. Court 1868....Henry
Gatling, Esqur., W. W. ? Smallwood, Jas. A. Weaver,
Lemuel ? Maid, Jac. T. Lambertson ? 

Northampton County, - June ? ...A.D. 1868. It is
ordered by the laws as it has heretofore been that
the Sheriff of the County, - ? Henry Gatling a
Justice of the Peace; ? T. Lambertson ?, W. W. ?
Smallwood; Esqur., James A. Weaver, and Lemuel ?
Maid ?, or any three of them........., who after
having been duly qualified, they having the Court
lawyer with them, shall.....a certain track of Land,
in this County - containing about fifteen hundred
and eleven Acres & three fourths River Land; also
two hundred and seventy Acres of Land and formerly
the property of one William Bishop of Bertie County,
being the same upon which William Bishop lately
departed this life, intestate, and adjoining the
land of Edward Jacobs & others, & divide and allot
the same in the following manner, to wit: to allot
and set apart to William J. Bishop, Geo. Bishop,
Lucy E. Bishop, Fannie Bishop each one fifth in
value and to (blank) [Leila] and (blank) [Edgar]
Powell, children of a deceased Daughter one fifth in
value of said Land as set forth in their petition,
and if an equal division be impracticable as to
value, then the County....shall change the more
valuable dividend or dividends, until such time as
sums of money as will make the division equal, and
report their proceedings to the next term of this
Court. Regist. ? June ? 29th A.D. 1868 (Signed)
Peter N. ?