Petition    Thomas Green, Howell Green, Chalmers Green,
Robert Green & Rebecca Green
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State of North Carolina           Court of Pleas and Quarters
Montgomery County


    To the worshipful the Justices of said Court The petition
Thomas Green, Howell Green, Chalmers Green, Robert Green & Rebecca
Green Respectfully showeth unto your worship that they are tenants in
common of a tract of land situate in said county containing about
three hundred and twenty acres. The said Thomas Green being entitled
to one half of said land and Howell Green, Chalmers Green, Robert
Green, & Rebecca Green heirs at law, Robert Green, dead, to the other
half of said land.  The said land adjoining John Mason, Wm. Green and
others.  Your petitioners further show that they are sin to hold and
enjoy their share of said land in severalty and to that end they pray
your worship to appoint five commissioners to divide the same into
two equal shares by proper mets and bounds and to allot and set apart
one share to Thomas Green and the other to the minor heirs of Robert
Green and if an equitable division can not be made thus and in that
case to charge to the more valuable divider with such such sum as
they shall deem necessary to be paid to the divider of the inferior
value in order to make the division and to report this proceeding to
the next term of the court.