Cumberland County, NC - Petition for Partition of Lands of Elisha Pipkin, 1825 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ State of North Carolina } Cumberland County } December Term 1825 To the Worshipful the Court of Pleas Quarter Sessions in and for the County and State aforesaid The petition of Lewis Pipkin, Daniel Rutty & Amy his wife, Jonathan Rutty & his wife Polly, Jacob Herring Crissy his wife, Jesse Pipkin & Elisha Pipkin, Elizabeth Pipkin, Archibald Pipkin, Stuart Pipkin by their guardian Lewis Pipkin, & Eliza Pipkin Daniel Pipkin Cloe Ann Grizzy Pipkin by their guardian Dan'l Hurd - Humbly sheweth that sometime in the year 1824 the late father of your petitioners Elisha Pipkin died intestate in the County aforesaid between Cape Fear & Upper Little River - adjoining each other containing twelve or thirteen hundred acres more or less - That your petitioners are the children & heirs of the said Elisha Pipkin, that Betsy Pipkin the widow of the said Elisha hath already had her dower in the said land measured and laid off and your petitioners are desirous to have their respective portions of the said land divided and laid off to them and therefore pray your worships to appoint Commissioners to divide & lay off to your petitioners their respective portions on the said lands according acts of Assembly in such case made & provided Strau__ for Petitioners A true copy teste John Armstrong Clk Dec Term 1825 Ordered by the Court that the prayer of the Petitioners be granted & that John Hodges Dan'l McLean Hector Stuart Neill McNeill & Malcolm Shaw be Commissioners to divide the land & make return with their appropriations & proceedings under their hands & seals to next term teste John Armstrong Clk March Term 1826 - no return - ordered that the same Commissioners act, with leave to report to June Term Teste Jno Armstrong Clk State of North Carolina To the sheriff of Cumberland County Greeting: you are hereby commanded to summon John Hodges Daniel McLean, Hector Stewart, Neill McNeill & Malcom Shaw freeholders & with them proceed who after being duly sworn to make partition & appropriations of the lands of Elisha Pipkin dec'd between & amongst his heirs at law agreeably to their petition exhibited to our worshipful Court (a copy of which is hereunto annexed) & agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made & provided & a copy of their proceedings & appropriations do you return together with this writ to our next Court to be had on the first Monday in June next Witnesses John Armstrong Clerk of said Court at Fayetteville this the first Monday of March AD 1826 Jno Armstrong Clk Issued 24 April 1826 State of North Carolina I Alexander McPherson Jr Clerk of the Superior Court for Cumberland County do certify that the above is a true copy of the petition & order of the Court appointing the above Commissioners to divide the lands & the same was duly executed the said sheriff John Black & the return of the Commissioners was duly registered in the Division book in the Registers Office of Cumberland County In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this the 6th day of February AD 1875 A.M. Pherson Jr Clc By E.S. Winslow DC [the date of this last record of 1875 is as written] Heirs of Elisha Pipkin Dec'd Petition of Partition Fee due $2.25 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts ___________________________________________________________________