MOORE COUNTY, NC - WILLS AND ESTATES - Joshua Phillips Estate Petition for Elizabeth Phillips (widow) --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Chatham County, North Carolina Documentation for Year's Support June 10, 1884 North Carolina Chatham County In the matter of Elizabeth Phillips widow of the late Joshua Phillips dec'd. The undersigned J.R. Jones Justice of the Peace Bryant Borroughs & William A. Smith commissioners summoned to lay off and allot to the said widow a years support for herself and family after being duly sworn, that we fine upon examination, that said family consist of her self only, and we assigned to her the following articles of personal property from the estate of said deceased. The values then to (_?_). To wit: House hold & Kitch Furniture $ 25.00 Farming Tools 12.00 Two work oxen 25.00 Two cows & calves 20.00 Four Head cattle 20.00 (____?____) 14.00 One shot gun (4.00), One Rifle Gun (6.00) 10.00 140 lbs. Flour (3.75) One bu Corn (1.00) 4.75 Hatter Tools (5.00) 16 lbs. Bacon (1.92) 6.92 Wheat & Oat crop 35.00 $172.67 We fine that there is not a sufficiency to make the amount allowed by Law, we therefore assess the deficiency at one hundred & twenty seven 33/100 dollars all of which is respectfully submitted. This June 10th 1884 J.R. Jones, J.Peace B. Borroughs William A. Smith ************************************************************************ Transcriber's Note: Document copied at the N.C. Archives, Raleigh, NC on Sept. 10, 2004. Joshua Phillips' brothers & sisters "may" have been William, Berry, Stephen, Catherine and Chloe of Chatham and Moore County, NC. Joshua and Elizabeth Phillips lived in Moore County, NC from 1850-1880, however, this document was filed in Chatham County, NC. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Lunsford Sandycope@aol.com ___________________________________________________________________