Chowan County, NC - Petition of Drew Welch, 1851 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To the Worshipful the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Chowan The Petition of DREW WELCH as administrator of WILLIAM T. BUSH, deceased, show your worship that at May Term 1851 of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Chowan County-administration Was granted him by said Court on the estate of the said Bush & your Petitioner cannot find Personalty of his intestate’s estate sufficient to satisfy the debts against his intestate: The amount of debts & the charges of administration as near as your Petitioner has been able to ascertain is about Sixty Dollars & the assets which have come into his hands to be administered will not exceed five---Dollars wh that it will be necessary to sell real estate to satisfy said debt. Your Petitioner further shows that his intestate the said William T.died seized and possessed in fee simple of a certain tract of land in the County of Chowan containing by estimation fifty acres more or less adjoining the lands of JOSEPH CANNORS, JEREMIAH WARD, LUKE MING, THOMAS HOLLOWELL having been conveyed to said William by THOMAS (GARRETT??) to said William by deed dated the 4th day of November. He further shows that it would greatly to the prejudice of the heirs at law of the said WILLIAM T. to sell a part of this said tract of land and he therefore Prays that the worshipful Court will order & desire a sale of the whole. He further shows that his intestate left as his heirs at law ELISHA, ANDREW, RICHARD, QUINTON, ABRAM & JOHN all infants under twenty-one years of age whom he prays maybe made parties, hereto and for the purpose that subpoenas may issue commanding them to & for this purpose your Petitioner wills (more pray?) PAINE, & BENBURY For Petitioner DREW WELCH with that the matter & things set forth in the forgoing petitton which are stated as of his own Knowledge are true and the rest he believed them to be true. Sworn to in open Court This Aug Term 1851 DREW WECH William A. Skinner, clrk. Xerographic copy of the original by North Carolina State Archives Sept 11, 1973 Transcribed by Mary Lou Wolfarth June 11, 2004 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mary Lou Wolfarth ___________________________________________________________________