CABARRUS COUNTY, NC - LAND - Kirkpatrick/McEachern Petition - 1885 ************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Cindy McCachern McCachern@worldnet.att.net *************************************************************** North Carolina, Cabarrus County-- By an order issued by J. C. Gibson and dated January 10th, 1885, it being in answer to a petition filed by W. H. Kirkpatrick and wife M. J. Kirkpatrick, heirs at law of John C. McEachern deceased praying the court for a division of the land of the said John C. McEachern deceased, among the several heirs at law of said deceased, not including the widows dower we were appointed in answer to said petition a jury to value lay off and divide said tract of land in equal value arriving the three children of said deceased having been summoned we met on the premises on the 3rd day of February 1885 and being sworn, we proceeded to lay off and divide, after carefully viewing the premises and carefully considering the interest of all the heirs did make a division of said land as we thought just and equitable in money and number of acres, without either lot being assessed to pay the other or others any book division as follows viz: Lot No. 1--Beginning at a pile of stones Mrs. Addie Blairs corner and runs S 15 E 33 1/2 poles with S. W. Harris line to a W __ on North bank of Back Creek thence S5 W crossing Creek 71 poles and 17 links to a stone and small cedar a corner of parsonage lot and SW Harris corner, thence N 72, W 36 poles to a stone near a Hickory on SW Harris line thence N 15 1/2 E 100 poles crossing creek to the beginning, containing fourteen and one quarter acres, which we value at two hundred dollars ($200.00) and assign to Mary Ann McEachern a minor heir of John C. McEachern deceased. Lot No. 2--Beginning at a large pine Mrs. Addie Blairs corner and runs with her line S 15, E 20 1/2 fpoles to a pile of stones a corner of lot N. 1-thence with line of lot No. 1 S 15 1/2, W 100 poles crossing creek to a stone on SW Harris line and a corner of lot No. 1 thence with SW Harris line N 72 W 32 poles to dower corner thence with corner line N 22 1/2, E 114 poles crossing creek to the beginning containing sixteen and three quarter acres, which we walue at two hundred dollars ($200.00) and assign to Samuel W. McEachern a minor heir John C. McEachern deceased. Lot No. 3--Beginning at a large pine tree mrs. Addie Blairs corner and runs with her line N 15, E 57 poles to a stone W. H. Kirkpatricks corner thence with his line N 65, W 64 poles to a stone near the road thence S 10, W 28 poles to a stone thence S 16 1/4, W 45 poles to a stone dower corner thence with corner line S 75, E 50 poles to a peach tree, thence N 86 E 10 poles to the beginning containing twenty five and one half acres which we value at two hundred dollars and assign to M. J. Kirkpatrick, wife of W. H. Kirkpatrick and heir at law of John C. McEachern deceased. Witness Wm. Profst Shff. A. C. Alexander (seal) J. Linker (his mark) D. Alexander (his mark) Rec'd and registered July 31st 1885 J. Patterson, Register of deeds