Lenoir County NcArchives History....Promissory Note, 1862

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, December 16, 2018.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SUTTON TO ANNIE HILL SUTTON, 1862

Six Months after date with interest from date we 
promise to pay Benj. F. Sutton exr. of Hardy Sutton snr 
deceased or order the sum of thirty-Six 60/100 Dollars 
for Value received witness our hands & seals 
Jany 9th 1862 

[lower-right corner of the document has been torn away.]

[back side]

Mrs Ann. Sutton’s note.

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

Hardy Sutton died Sept. 11, 1861, approximately four 
months before the date of this promissory note.

This is the second document in the Clellan Sutton 
Collection in which the suffix, Sr. (Senior), occurs 
with Hardy Sutton's name. Technically, Sr. was 
incorrectly assigned since none of Hardy's and wife, 
Annie Hill Sutton's sons were named Hardy Sutton, Jr.

The name(s) and accompanying signature(s) of the 
borrowers of this document have been torn away. The 
seal that accompanied a name is partially observable. 
The inscription on the back side of the document, 'Mrs 
Ann Sutton's note,' makes it unambiguously clear that 
the torn away signature on the front side of the note 
was hers. However, the plural forms of words used in 
the narrative of the note suggest there may have been
at least one other signature that accompanied Ann's. 
This name remains unknown.

Ann (or Annie Hill) Sutton was the wife of Hardy Sutton. 
Benjamin Franklin Sutton was one of their 14 children, 
was the executor of his father's estate, as indicated 
in the note. Why Ann, widow of Hardy (deceased) had to 
borrow money from her husband's estate that was being 
managed by her son, Benjamin Franklin, also remains a 
mystery.