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WILLIAM BLOUNT RODMAN PAPERS - Private Collection #76 - North Carolina 
Archives, Raleigh, NC

This is a huge Collection and I only went through those boxes that appeared to 
have Dobbs, Greene or Lenoir County Papers. Rodman was an attorney from 
Washington, NC and it appears he had few clients in the Old Dobbs area. Most of these 
records are sketchy notes Rodman made and often they do not make sense. There 
are a lot of Pitt County documents and Roger Kammerer has pulled the Pitt 
Papers.

BOX 76.13

ESTATE OF WILLIAM LOVICK

No date but WOODLEY was a Doctor in the mid 1800's - Estate of WILLIAM LOVICK - 
Lenoir County - to J. C. NEAL and wife ELIZA - to appear at Court in Lenoir Co 
1st Monday in July to answer to THOMAS WOODLEY exec of MR. LOVICK
  3rd Monday in March - N. Hunter, Clk

On the back of the document - THOMAS WOODLY Exr of WM. LOVICK dec vs ANN E. 
GREENE et all - Petition for settlement of estate - copy for J. C. NEAL and WIFE

END OF DOCUMENT


ESTATE OF NATHAN BLOUNT

To the judge of Court of Equity - Lenoir Co - Bill of complaint of JOHN C. 
WASHINGTON executor of NATHAN BLOUNT, dec against - ELIZABETH BLOUNT, WILLIAM P. 
BALANCE and MARY HIS WIFE, SARAH TOPPEN and NATHAN B. TOPPEN the two last infants 
of tender years and REDING L. MYERS:

NATHAN BLOUNT published his will on 4 April 1849 - will as follows:

NOTE: THIS WILL IS ALREADY POSTED ON THE LENOIR CO ARCHIVES SITE

Suit not settled between BLOUNT and HERRING ---- your orator provided ELIZABETH 
BLOUNT with $4000 for land --- she wished slaves and other property of BLOUNT 
desposed of --- Negro Harriet has had a child and ELIZABETH BLOUNT to retain 
her: Negroes Allen and Samuel have been hired out for 3 years - not sure if they 
allowed to choose a new owner or be liberated - is the executor allowed to give 
them their freedom

NOTE: This case appears to be connected with the issue of freedom for the 
slaves per the Will of Blount

END OF DOCUMENT



GREENE COUNTY MISC FOLDER

MARTHA ANN LASSITER received land by her mother, MARTHA REDDICK who bought land 
from BRANN ?? of 250 acres - BLANEY TURNAGE in possession - land sold under 
EXEC vs UZZELL LASSITER bought by HENRY WILLIAMS ---- JAMES WILLIAMS, Clerk of 
County Court was one of the Execs. Of HENRY WILLIAMS and guardian of the children 
of HENRY WILLIAMS  ??? unreadable lands to BLANEY TURNAGE from year to year for 
4 or 5 years --- TURNAGE cut wood from land and then he moved away

Greene County Court owed $500

END OF DOCUMENT


11 February 1859 - this is an extremely long document and repeats itself over 
and over and is mostly a list of notes owed

I. W. H. HORNE of Greene Co for $1.00 pd by EDWARD CARMON and J. W. DIXON of 
Greene sold - one house and lot in Snow Hill, household and kitchen furniture - 
Lot #3 of one acre; one office and lot now occupied by H. F. McDugald Drugstore 
and lot of sd W. H. HORNE on lot 24; 1/2 interest in house and lot of L. A. 
CASWELL known as lot conveyed by said L. A. CASWELL to W. H. HORNE and J. ROUSE by 
deed then again by C. H. HARPER to W. H. HORNE' one store and lot known as 
Wicks corner' also following tracts: one adj town on SS of county road leading west 
from town containing 7 1/4 acres and known as land conveyed by HENRY SHEPHARD 
to sd HORNE; one tract of 100 acres and known as land conveyed by RICHARD SMITH 
and wife to HORNE adj R. H. SUGG, A. H. SUGG, J. REYNOLDS; one tract in 
Johnston Co of 200 acres; personal property - negro woman Maria, negro boy George, 
negro woman Nancy and her two children Mary and Apsley, negro woman Stager, negro 
man Jack and John.

This grant intended as security for payment of following notes - within 2 years

1 note to JOHN HARVEY guardian to minor heirs of J. G. EDWARDS dec for $700 to 
which note B. S. EDWARDS and E. CARMON are securities; one note to J. HARVEY 
for $1050 to which J. T. Freeman, J. W. DIXON and R. HARPER are securities; one 
note to J. L. FREEMAN guardian for J. H. HARPER for $1150 to which R. H. BLOUNT 
and E. CARMON are securities -

NOTE: List of notes goes on for a number of pages, but I ran out of time at the 
archives

WIT  HENRY BEST,  O. J. PATE

END OF DOCUMENT


DEED OF GIFT - LEWIS HARRELL TO LANEY AYTON HARRELL

12 May 1823 - LEWIS HARRELL for love and affection gave his daughter in law, 
LANEY AYTON HARRELL, wife of JOSEPH HARRELL, a negro girl Nancy and her daughter 
Phillis - but he "lent" to her for her natural life and after her death gave to 
her heirs --- this was determined not a gift because of the limitation

END OF DOCUMENT

MARTHA and HENRY WILLIAMS ad of WM WILLIAMS (are of B. F. HAZLETON) received 
judgement against JAMES WILLIAMS adm of RICHARD EDWARDS dec for $23.25 on 5 Sept 
1839 and $6.35 for court cost - B. F. HAZLETON suggest that laws ? have 
descended to SUSAN CAROLINE EDWARDS heir of RICHARD EDWARDS - 20 June 1848 - Executed 
on WILL CARROWAY - WILL CARROWAY guardian of S. EDWARDS because MARTHA WILLIAMS 
is married to JAMES WILLIAMS and HENRY WILLIAM died intestate and JAMES 
WILLIAMS is his ADM.

HENRY WILLIAMS died about 1841
JAMES WILLIAMS is of Duplin County

END OF DOCUMENT


PARTIAL COPY OF WILL OF JOSEPH HOUSE

ITEM #3 - I give and bequeath after the death of my daughter SUSANNA DIXON the 
tract of land loaned to her in the 2nd item unto her lawful heirs to be divided 
equally among them.  I also give to the heirs of sd SUSANNA the above mentioned 
Negro in the 2nd ITEM

ITEM 2 - I lend to my daughter SUSANNAH DIXON during her natural life one tract 
on the NS of Rainbow adj lands of FREDERICK DIXON, BENJAH DIXON, LEO DIXON, 
JOSEPH TAYLOR, and JOHN CONNER ? being the land I purchased at KITCHEN DIXON.  I 
also lend her 5 Negroes which she now has in her possession to wit woman Nancy 
and her 4 children

Dated 30 May 1823
Proved May 1, 1824 - JAMES HOUSE and JAMES W. HAWKES, EXEC

END OF DOCUMENT



JOHN PATTERSON FOLDER

28 July 1847 - JOHN PATTERSON is defendant

JOHN BRITT vs JOHN PATTERSON - attachment in Greene Court of Pleas and 
Quarterly session on 2nd Monday of Aug 1847 - ordered that the bacon, Spirits, flour, 
sugar, molasses and coffee levied upon a credit of 6 months - to be sold to 
JESSE VAUSE

MOSES PATTERSON by his council, WM B. RODMAN and F. B. SATTERWAIT moved the 
court recind an order made on Thursday Aug Term 1849 requiring the clerk to pay to 
Wm H. HORNE the amount of his debt against JOHN PATTERSON

Case decided in favor of the Def - MOSES PATTERSON Trustee for JOHN PATTERSON - 
all money arising from sale of property --- JOHN BRETT says JOHN PATTERSON owes 
him $435 - PATTERSON absconded or removed from sd County

END OF DOCUMENT


JOHN RASBERRY vs OWEN JONES AND WILLIAM A. BRAND

Greene Co - Spring Term 1849 - OWEN W. JONES and WILLIAM A. BRAND to the Bill 
of complaint of JOHN W. RASBERRY ---- WILL B. RODMAN - sol for defd. --- JOSHUA 
ROUSE Esq a JP ---- sometime in the year 1847 RASBERY indebted to OWEN JONES 
amounting to $280.27 --- not able to meet payment ---- would have to sell 
property and wanted an extention of time ---- JONES agreed but he urged him to 
increase the loan and money would be placed in hands of WILLIAM BRAND who was an 
overseer of JONES

END OF DOCUMENT



ESTATE OF THOMAS EDWARDS FOLDER

NOTE: This became a Supreme Court Case and abstracted by Ruth Fentress. To 
avoid duplication, I have eliminated the notes here and posted the Supreme Court 
Case with additional notes found in the Rodman Collection.




WILLIAM WILLIAMS VS BENJAMIN W. BEST FOLDER

A platt showing lands in dispute - WILLIAM WILLIAMS is the plan and BENJAMIN W. 
BEST is the def.

The land was bounded by the Nahunty on the south, on west is CHAMBERS UMPRY 
patent of 350 acres on 12 Oct 1767 and is intersected by Sauls Creek - the north 
is bounded by JOHN MOORINGs patent of 405 acres on 26 Sept 1766 - below the land 
is WILLIAM FORT'S Deed to NATHAN HOLMES of 56 1/2 acres and below that is 
WILLIAM TEAGUE's patent of 400 acres on 11 April 1754 --- to the east of TEAGUE is 
WILLIAM NEAL'S 200 acre patent on 21 Nov 1744

END OF DOCUMENT



BOX ENTITLED LEGAL PAPERS - MISC 76.14

I picked out any that looked like Greene or Lenoir but there could be others

? WILLIAMS vs BENJ BEST - regarding a patent line of WILL TEAGUE for 400 acres 
dated 28 Sept 1754

NOTE:  This appears to go with the above case

Mentions a deed from HENRY B. HOLMES on 6 Sept 1841
Mentions a deed from WILL R. SHERROD and WIFE to H. B. HOLMES for 56 1/2 acres 
on 8 April 1839
Mentions  NATHAN HOLMES will proved 7 Feb 1817 - HENRY BEST proves ? SHERROD's 
wife to have been a legatee
MENTIONS WILL FORT to NATHAN HOLMES on 9 Nov 1813 - no possession of 56 1/2 
acres at any time

DEF. Shows declaration of Plft admitting title in plft by JOHN EXUM - 22 years 
ago

JESSE HINSON proves the same 30 years ago - he is now 60 years old

DEF produces a deed from JOHN LANE to BEN LANE for 200 acres out of TEAGUE'S 
patent dated 1796



MISC ESTATE PAPERS

JOSHUA SPEIGHT and wife vs A. SCARBOROUGH AND OTHERS

JOHN HARPER died in year --- having a will - in the 5th clause he bequeathed to 
daughter ANN POPE the Negros Mary and Taney --- the latter is dead and Mary has 
several children.  The bequest was to ANN POPE for her life then to her 
children.  After death of HARPER, ANN md DAVID SCARBOROUGH by whom she had one child, 
IRA ?? SCARBOROUGH.  MRS. SCARBOROUGH is still in possession of the slaves. The 
injunction granted in this case is a special one - ANN attempted to sell in 
Sept 1851 - an absolute estate in slaves, Mary, West and Ellen (latter 2 children 
of Mary) to EDWIN G. SPEIGHT who was fixing to move out of state. PLF told 
SPEIGHT about the will and ANN denied trying to sell them;  SPEIGHT decided to buy 
and risk the title. ANN says her children not entitled to slaves. OWEN W. JONES 
married one of ANN'S daughters - JONES also wanted slaves sold and wanted his 
share of money



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