NC, Craven,  Court Records, STEPHEN WETHERINGTON

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ESTATE OF STEPHEN WETHERINGTON

Eben Fife & wife & others vs John Wetherington & others
Petition for distribution
Filed 12 April 1807
14th Feby 1807


To the Worshipful the Justices of Craven County Court

The petition of Ebenezer Fife and Hally his wife, Laney Wetherington & Betsy 
Wetherington, minors by the said Eben. Fife their best friend, and Mary 
Wetherington minor by Elijah Hutchins his (sic) Guardian, humbly sheweth - That Stephen 
Wetherington late of Craven County died intestate in the year 1803, possessed 
of and entitled to a very valuable personal estate. That the said Stephen, left 
eight children viz your petitioner, Halley, Laney, Betsy & Mary Wetherington 
and John Wetherington, Nathan Wetherington, Ann the wife of Nathaniel Peters and 
Southey Wetherington, who were entitled to distribution of his personal estate 
of said intestate... but your petitioners charge that the said John, Ann & 
Nathan had been advanced by the intestate in his life time, nearly to the amount of 
their respective share of his personal estate.

Your petitioners further show That administration of the estate of the said 
Stephen Wetherington was by this Court at Newbern 1803 granted to the said John 
Wetherington & Nathan Wetherington who possessed themselves by virtue of said 
grant of the goods, chatels & effects of the intestate to the amount of Two ? 
thousand pounds or some other large sum.  Your petitioners have frequently in a 
friendly way applied to the said John Wetherington & Nathan Wetherington for a 
settlement of the amounts of their said administration & that your petitioners 
share of the personal estate of said intestate might be paid or delivered them for 
their use with which reasonable request the said administrators have hitherto 
refused to comply. To the end therefore that the said John & Nathan Wetherington 
may set forth & discover ?? & full inventory of the personal estate of the 
intestate of that the same consisted, how & when the same has been disposed of & 
the value thereof-that the said John & Nathan Wetherington & Nathaniel Peters & 
Ann his wife may produce to this court on oath an inventory or account of all 
the personal property given them or put into the possession of either of them by 
the said intestate in his lifetime, or be considered to have received each his 
full share of the said deceased estate and that the said John & Nathan 
Wetherington may be decied ?? to pay your petitioners their respective share of the 
estate of said Intestate & that your petitioners may have and other further relief 
in the premises as may be agreeable to equity & good conscience.  May it please 
your Worships to grant your petitioners writs of subpona directed to the said 
John Wetherington and Nathan Wetherington and to the said Nathaniel Peters & Ann 
his wife & Southey Wetherington who don't join in this petition, commanding 
them to appear before you at the Court to be held at Craven County on the second 
Monday in ???, then & there to answer the premises & to perform & abide such 
decree as to your Worships shall meet.

Signed by an attorney whose name I can't read