Lincoln-Burke County NcArchives Wills.....Anthony, Philip March 19, 1827
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Source: North Carolina Archives, Estates Or Inventories, Lincoln County, C.r.060.508.3
Written: March 19, 1827

Philip Anthony, 1827. Only fragments of the actual partition document survive. 
The following is a transcription of that which remains. When able, certain 
words which appear to be reasonable have been inserted, and are underlined:

	State of North Carolina, Lincoln. Agreeably to an act _________. 
Lincoln County Court at January session ____, We the subscribers being summoned 
to divide an appropriate _____ of land lying in said County _____on both sides 
of Pott’s Creek ____ according to the last will and testament of PHILLIP 
ANTHONY, Sen. Between Paul Anthony, PHILIP ANTHONY, and Charles Shull in right 
of his wife Magdelena (formerly Anthony), have met the 17th day of March 18__ 
on the premises of co____ in day today until the 19th, and who after being 
sworn in due ___n form according to law have proceeded to divide and 
appropriate the said land accordingly. (To wit): To Paul Anthony 247 acres more 
or less, east side of said creek including the house where he now _____, 
bounded as follows viz. Beginning at a post ____ (at A) Nelson’s corner, ___ 16 
degrees east 74 poles to a red oak, thence north ___ 111 poles to a B___  ____, 
48 degrees east 81 poles to a post oak, thence ___26 degrees east ____ _____ 
____south 42 east 62 poles to a post oak ________________________ thence 
south________ to a s____. [now over half the remaining document is missing, 
however there is a plot map which gives a fair amount of information.] 
_______________ a small black __________ east bank of Pott’s __________________ 
stake on the east b_______________________
The east bank of said ____________________- 63 degrees east 68 poles to the 
______________.

	To PHILIP ANTHONY _______________ of Pott’s Creek on the ___________ a 
post oak ?Howar’s? corner ________________ 42 east 63 poles to a 
_______________ thence south 76 degrees west _______________ south 40 degrees 
west 14 poles ___________________ three maples on the ________________ thence 
south 29 degrees west ____________________ thence down the vario 
_____________________.

	Also to Charles Shull _________________ironwood oak ___________________ 
63 degrees west 63 poles __________________ of the original 
_____________________ Carpenter’s corner ______________________ of said Pott’s 
Creek _________________ said Pott’s Creek _______________________.

	The first ‘petition to partition’ the tracts left to the heirs of 
PHILIP [I] ANTHONY was filed in Lincoln County at October session, 1805, and it 
concerned a parcel of land that PHILIP [I] forgot to name in his will:

	“The petition of George, Daniel, Paul, PHILIP and Benjamin Antony, also 
Charles Folks in right of his wife Barbara Folks, formerly Barbara Antony, and 
Charles Shull, in right of his wife Magdelena, formerly Magdelena Antony,, 
children and legatees of PHILIP ANTONY, deceased, humbly showeth to your 
worships:

	“That PHILIP ANTONY died in the year 1796 intestate as to one certain 
tract of land lying in Lincoln County on Leonard’s Fork, a water of Indian 
Creek containing about 170 acres bounded by Adam Whitsenhunt’s land on the 
east. Your petitioners pray your worships to appoint a jury to divide and lay 
off the said land, agreeable to the Act of Assembly in which case? made a ____ 
between the said petitioners  and others, heirs and legatees of the said Philip 
deceased, and your petitioners ever will pray. [Signed by each]


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