Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Lancaster, Prudence - Estate 1868
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Tommy Colbert clycolbert@aol.com June 23, 2011, 1:46 pm

Source: N C Archives
Written: 1868

	Lancaster, Prudence estate 1868, Edgecombe County Estate Records, 
NC State Archives CR.037.508.73.  Petition of John Lancaster, 
administrator of Prudence Lancaster, dec’d. against David Lancaster, 
Dossey Lancaster, a nonresident of this state, Polly Moor, wife of 
Hansel Moor, a nonresident of this state, Nancy Taylor, widow of A.D. 
Taylor, Martha Bullock, wife of Jonathan Bullock, and the children of 
Willie Lancaster, viz. Wilson Lancaster and Jesse Lancaster, adults and 
nonresidents of this state and Lousia Prudence Lancaster, an infant 
over fourteen years of age and a nonresident of this state and without 
guardian in this state and (blank) Lancaster, name unknown an infant 
under fourteen years of age and a nonresident of this state and without 
guardian in this state, petition states that in Dec. 1867, Prudence 
Lancaster died intestate and that at Feb. Ct. 1868, he, John Lancaster 
was appointed administrator of Prudence Lancaster’s estate; debts 
against the estate amount to $750 or thereabouts; the personal estate 
of the deceased consisted of a small amount of household and kitchen 
furniture, one old (horse), seven or eight head of hogs and that the 
same had been sold and brought the sum of $66.46, none of which has 
been applied to the debts at the present time; the said intestate by 
the will of Austin Whitehead took an option for life on 345 acres of 
land adjoining the lands of (F.M. Barnes) Ansey Braswell, and others 
with remainder in fee for her four boys, David Lancaster, Dossey 
Lancaster, Willie Lancaster and Robert Lancaster; that on the 14th day 
of Feb. 1849, Willie Lancaster sold to Prudence Lancaster, tenant for 
life, his one fourth remainder interest for the sum of $100 and that by 
this conveyance the said intestate died seized and possessed of an 
undivided one fourth interest in said land which is estimated as being 
worth $300; that said intestate left surviving her the following 
children and grandchildren who are her only heirs at law, to wit: David 
Lancaster, Martha, wife of Johnathan Bullock, Nancy Taylor, widow of 
A.D. Taylor, deceased, all of Edgecombe Co. and James Lancaster of the 
county of Wilson and Dossey Lancaster, a resident of Ruckersville, 
Tippo Co., in the State of Mississippi, and Polly Moor, wife of  Hansel 
Moor a resident of (blank) in the State of Mississippi and the children 
of Willie Lancaster, dec’d., viz. Wilson Lancaster and Jesse Lancaster 
adults and Louise Prudence Lancaster an infant over the age of 14 years 
and (blank) Lancaster, name unknown, infant under the age of 14 years, 
all residents of (county unknown) in the state of Mississippi; your 
petitioner states that the personal assets are insufficient to pay the 
debts of the said intestate and that a sale of the real estate above 
described is necessary to pay said debts; signed John Lancaster, 12 
July, 1869.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/lancaste2727wl.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/

File size: 3.4 Kb