LENOIR COUNTY, NC - COURT - Sarah Wiggins.

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NEW BERN DISTRICT (NC) CRIMINAL COURT ACTION
(NC Archives, Box DSCR 206.326.1)

Abstracted by: Rose Parks Rt.1 Box 119-B Avery Texas 75554-9722, 
201ramp@dishmail.net
Thanks to Roger Kammerer for locating this source. I was able to find 
Gershom Wiggins wife name which many had mistakenly said was Marie and 
his wifešs father.
    
North Carolina Dobbs County
11th day of April 1772 
Nehemiah Wise for his wife Ann, John Hull and Joseph Rateliff, planter 
personally appeared before me Benjamin Caswell, JP Nehemiah Wise for his 
wife Ann the sum of 500 pounds proclamation money and John Hull and 
Joseph Rateliff 250 pounds like money to be levied of their goods, 
chattels, land and tenements respectively.
To the use of our said Lord the King his heirs and successors on the 
condition the said Ann Wise shall make her personal appearance before 
the Chief Justice of Superior Court at Newbern to give evidence against 
Sarah Wiggins, wife of Gershom Wiggins, charges of suspicion of having 
murdered her own infant child.