Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Robbins, John - Estate 1833
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Written: 1833

	Robbins, John, 1833.  Petition of Josiah Ellinor vs Wright W. 
Joyner states that John Robbins died in the year 1819 after making a 
will.  John Mercer and others were appointed as executors but Mercer 
alone took the “burden of executing said will”.   One item in will 
bequeathed “all the remainder of my Negroes be hired out until my 
grandchildren come of age & then to be sold & Equally divided amongst 
them.”  This was done in 1826.  In the pursuance of the bequest 
aforesaid in the year 1826 a division was made between & amongst the 
grandchildren of the testator by    commissioners returnable to Feby 
Sessions 1826 by which division the shares of Warren Barnes, William 
Barnes, Evelina and George W. Amason children of Nancy Robbins the 
daughter of the testator were allotted their share of the Negroes of 
the deceased Catharine Williams, daughter of (Rode) Robbins daughter of 
the testator was allotted her share of said negroes- Patsy Pender then 
of full age was allotted her share of said Negroes she being a daughter 
of Elizabeth Pender who was a daughter of the (petitioner had been 
written but scratched out) testator and that the following Negroes to 
wit Dublin, Fanny Moses Rose Lettice and Presturn having to pay the 
Barnes aforesaid $88 and $20 to Thomas Amason on account of his 
daughter Evelina, were allotted to John Andrew Nancy & James Pender 
children of Elizabeth aforesaid as tenants in common that John Pender 
is now of full age & has taken into his possession a part of said 
Negroes & the remainder have been taken into possession of Wright W. 
(Joining) as guardian of Andrew & James & Nancy Pender & have been 
hired out as such by him”; petitioner Josiah Ellinor intermarried with 
Nancy Pender in the year (1811) and that the said Nancy died some time 
thereafter that and petitioner was appointed administrator of said 
Nancy by the court and prays that Wright W. (Jorner) as guardian be 
summoned to next court on fourth Monday of May next and answer several 
matters and whether as guardian he did not receive the Negroes allotted 
to John Andrew & James Pender & Nancy the former wife of your 
petitioner and that John Pender who is now of full age be summoned to 
answer the several matters aforesaid, how many of Negroes he received, 
their value and yearly hire and your petitioner prays that 
disinterested commissioners be appoint to divide the Negroes above 
named between John Andrew and James Pender together with your 
petitioner , signed (illegible, not Josiah).   Edgecombe Co. Estates, 
NC State Archives CR.037.508,104.


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