Johnston-Wayne County NcArchives Court.....Barnes, Jacob 1844 ************************************************ 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: Stewart & Maryann Barnes stbarnes@embarqmail.com December 25, 2009, 8:18 am Source: Johnston & Wayne Co. Libraries Written: 1844 Slave and Land Division of Jacob BARNES of Johnston County, North Carolina [Six pages - Unknown compiler - First Page (1) typed and stamped:] Public Library of Johnston County, JOHNSTON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA, RECORD BOOK A#2, 1810-1864, WEYNETTE PARKS HAUN, 243 ARGONNE DRIVE, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, 27704 [from the BARNES surname file at Wayne County Public Library, Goldsboro, NC] [Next page (2) typed {Page 96}, with a portion of dockets 44 and 46:] "46, State of North Carolina, Johnston County To the Honorable Judge of the Superior Court of Law & Equity for the said County. We the undersigned having been summond & duly sworn by the Sheriff of the County Aforesaid to divide & allot the negro Slaves belonging to the Estate of Jacob BARNES decsd. so that certain distributees in said Estate might be put in possession of their distributive shares or Lotts agreeable to Law & their petition granted beg leave to respectfully to report: that we consider the said negro slaves to be worth the sum of Six Thousand Five Hundred & sixty dollars and their being Eight Heirs in said Estate, we find the average lot or share to be worth Eight Hundred & Twenty Dollars, - that agreeable to said petition and order baring date the 4th Monday in Sept. 1843 We allot to Simon AYCOCK Lot No. 3. Sherood, Rinda, & Larkin valued at Eight Hundred & Twenty five dollars ($825.) being five dollars more than his distributive share and we adjudge that he pay to No. 5 Demsey GRANT five dollars in money. We also allot No. 5. James, Cole, & Child valued at Eight Hundred Dollars to Demsey GRANT being Twenty Dollars less than his distributive Share and that he receive from lotts no. one, two, four & six fifteen dollars which with the five [Next page (3) typed - {Page 97} with remainder of 46, plus 47 and 48, and beginning of 49:] dollars th said AYCOCK has to be pay him, make Eight hundred & Twenty dollars his distributive Share. We further allot No. (7) seven Abby & child & Jack valued at Six Hundred & seventy five dollars to Bythan ALFORD and that he receive from Simon AYCOCK One Hundred & fifty Dollars ($150) in money which sum said AYCOCK has heretofore received from said intestate by way of advancements which said sum makes no (7) seven Eight 47 Hundred & twenty five dollars $825., making five dollars more than his proportionable Share which sum we direct he pay to No. (8) Eight We furthur allot No. (8) Eight Presmus & Peter valued at Five Hundred & Seventy dollars to SIMMS heirs & further find that said SIMMS has heretofore received by way of advancement from said intestate Two Hundred & thirty five dollars ($235) which makes this lott worth Eight Hundred & Ten dollars being ten Dollars less than his distributive Share, and we adjudge that he receive from no. (7) seven five dollars as above directed, and also five dollars from No. one, Two, four & Six, which makes his distributive share $820. We leave Lots no. one London & Rhoda, valued at Eight Hundred & Twenty five dollars, No. 2 Jonas & Rinda valued at Eight Hundred & Twenty five dollars, Lot No. 4 Sharper Rachel & Nathan valued at Eight Hundred & Twenty five dollars, Lot No.6 Haywood, Mary & Framen valued at Eight Hundred & Twenty five dollars in Joint Stock for the Benefit of Sarah BARNES, Jacob BARNES & Bethany BARNES minor Heirs of said intestate. all of which is respectfully submitted, under our hands & seals. Adin POWELL (Seal), Kedar WHITLEY (Seal), Jas. H. RAIFORD (Seal), John ATKINSON (Seal) State of North Carolina, Johnston County. Superior Court of Law March Term 1844. Then was the above report returned in open Court & ordered to be recorded & registered. W. R. LEE, C.S.S. {Page 97}". [Next page (4) - Handwritten:] Land Division - Heirs of Jacob BARNES, "Lot - 1 Jacob Barnes, Jr. - Joining Samuel Strickland [m. Nancy Ann MUSGRAVE]; Lot - 2 - Bethany - married Bizzell [m. Everett Abram BIZZELL]; Lot - 3- Zilpha - married Renfrow [m. Merrit RENTFROW]; Lot - 4 - Joanna - Joining Whitley line [m. Bythan B. ALFORD]; Lot - 5 - Simms - Heirs [through Mary who was a granddaughter]; Lot - 6 - Aycock [Kiziah m. Simon AYCOCK]; Lot - 7 - Sarah - married Benjamin WELLONS" [Next page (5) - Hand drawn copy of plots of land that were divided and also handwritten note at top of page:] "Jacob Barnes, Est., Sarah Barnes, wife of Jacob, Sarah died 139 [unclear as to what this means], Jacob married - Nancy" [Nancy WILLIAMSON, and after Jacob's death Nancy married Dempsey GRANT]. "Tract 1st (1444 Acres): No. 1st 195 Acres - Jacob's; No. 2nd 275 - Bethany Bizzell; No. 3rd 250 - Zilphia Renfrow; No. 4th 245- Joanna Alford; No. 5th 250 - Simms; No. 6th 249 - Aycock. Track 2nd (483 Acres): No. 7th 483 Acres - Sarah Wellons. Tract 3rd (100 Acres): - Belonging to No. 7." [Next pages (6 & 7) - Copy of handwritten Division of Tracts to the heirs of Jacob Barns, for Jacob: Bethany: Zilphia: Joanna: Simms Heirs: Aycock: and Sarah Barnes, ending with:] "State of North Carolina, Johnston County, May Term 1842. Then was the foregoing Division duly entered in open Court & confirmed & ordered to be enrolled & Registered -- Enrolled in Land Book B. Page 130 & 31 - Registered the 29th July 1842". Note: There is another page in the BARNES surname file at the Wayne County Public Library at Goldsboro, NC, pertaining to the estate of Jacob BARNES:] "Land Book I Docket 228 [page 11]. - Johnston County - Div. of negroes of Est. of Jacob Barnes. Value $1560.00 March 1844 to Simon Aycock: inserted and handwritten Simms heirs: Bython Alford: Demsey Grant: Bethany, Sarah & Jacob Barnes, minor heirs of Jacob Barnes, dec." [End] [Re-copied with original spelling, comments in brackets added for clarification, by Stewart & Maryann Barnes, email: stbarnes@embarqmail.com in the hopes that the records will help other researchers.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/johnston/court/barnes1268wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.5 Kb