LINCOLN COUNTY, NC - COURT - John and Epps Robinson Petition
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Transcribed from original document, located in NC State Archives in Raleigh.  
Located in Lincoln County Estate Records, 1779-1925,call number 
C.R.060.508.133.

Frances Wilkerson 1842

State of North Carolina        In Equity
Lincoln County

	The petition of John Robinson and Epps Elizabeth Robinson his wife and 
Sarah Elizabeth Wilkinson an infant and minor unter the age of twenty-one 
years who petitions by her guardian Michel Lineberger to the Honorable the 
Judge of the Court of Equity of said County humbly complain in service (?) 
unto your Honor that in the year Francis Wilkenson departed this life in said 
County intestate seized and possessed of a Tract of Land lying in said county 
and situate on Flat Rock Creek in Said County adjoining the Land of Gabriel 
Milligan and others containing one hundred and forty-eight acres more or less.  
That said Francis Wilkerson also left a negro girl named Sinda that he left 
the Widow Epps Elizabeth Wilkenson him surviving who has since intermarried 
with John Robinson and hath a right to Dower and a distribut- share of the 
personal property and one only daughter Sarah Elizabeth Wilkinson of Tender 
age as aforesaid one of your Petitioners.
Michel Linebarger Term (?) of Lincoln Court was appointed administrator of the 
Estate of said decedent and took upon himself the labor of administering the 
same and afterwards the same Michel Lineberger qualified as Guardian to the 
said Sarah Elizabeth.
	Your Petitioner John Robinson and Epps his wife aforesaid became 
entitled to Dower in said Land and to one half of said negro Sinda but being 
of opinion that if dower is laid off of said Land it would diminish the value 
and also that a sale of the negro Woman Sinda is necessary for the settling 
said estate and the payment of the distributive portion, the said John 
Robinson and Epps his wife and Michel Lineberger administrator as aforesaid 
and Guardian of the said Sarah Elizabeth do pray Your Honor to order adjudge 
and decreed that the Land aforesaid be sold under a decree of the Honourable 
Court on such Terms as the Court may deem right and that from the proceeds 
thereof a full equivalent by law of under the courts direction in lieu of 
Dower of the said Widow and secured as the Court deems right and they further 
pray that sale may be decreed of the Negro Sinda as aforesaid land the money 
arising from said sale be dived according to Law.  All your Petitioners 
representing unto Your Honor that the Verily believe a sale of the realty in 
manner aforesaid and personalty will be of advantage to all the Petitioners 
especially the Minor.

And as duly bound
				Signed B. Shipp Brother (?)


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