Newhanover County NcArchives Court.....Cunningham, Thomas 1804
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Source: Familysearch.org
Written: 1804

Thomas Cunningham Estate, 1804

Division of Negroes of Cunningham Estate among the heirs rendered to March 
Term 1804. Witness: A B Toomer CC

We the subscribers being called upon by Thomas Robeson, Thomas Callender and 
Joshua Potts in behalf of the Heirs of the late Thomas Cunningham to lay off 
and divide the following Negroes into six shares as the Estate of Thomas 
Cunningham deceased

To Thomas Robeson for three shares
A Negro man named Quash valued at $400
A Negro woman named Rachel and child John at $300
A girl named Fanny at $170
A boy named James at $100

Subject to a payment of ten dollars to be paid to the next mentioned share

To Thomas Callender for one share
A Mulatto girl named Kitty valued at $300
To received as above stated $10
To be paid by the next mentioned shares $36 2/3

To Polly [Mary] and Jane Kirkwood one share each
A Mulatto girl named Crissey valued at $270
"    "     "     "   Peggy at $250
"    "     "     "   Sally at $210

Deduct the thirty six dollars and two thirds to be paid as above

Six shares at $346 2/3 each share comes to the amount of the whole valuation

New Hanover County
Wilmington
16th Decm'r 1803
Wit: Robt W Brown

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North Carolina New Hanover County 
Wilmington NC

To whom it may concern we whose names are hereunto subscribed being Heirs at 
law to the estate of the late Thomas Cunningham to wit Thomas Robeson for his 
own sixth, the same for Jonathan Robeson by power of attorney for his one 
sixth, the same for John Kirkwood by purchase and sale for one sixth amounting 
to three sixths in claim to said Estate, Thomas Callender by marriage with 
Elizabeth Robeson by heirship for one sixth, Mary Kirkwood her one sixth and 
Jane Kirkwood her one sixth by heirship, do hereby severally agree to manner 
terms and proportion of the within division of the said nine Negroes and we do 
all further acknowledge that each and every of us have individually received 
in possession from Joshua Potts Executor by and through the within the 
valuation and division made by Peter Maxwell, Thomas N Pasteur and Christopher 
Dudley the identical shares as so allotted to us and the said Thomas Callender 
on his part hereby acknowledges that he has received of Thomas Robeson ten 
dollars and of Mary and Jane Kirkwood their thirty six and two thirds dollars 
in fulfillment of his share of said Negroes; 

And we do all and every of us forever release each other in the premises as 
touching the Negroes and Mullattoes of said estate being each content with our 
respective shares in possession; 

And further we do severally agree that the Old Negro Virgil and Fanny his wife 
shall remain excluded from our undivided individual claim or possession and 
that we will each in proportion to our respective shares of said estate 
support and maintain those two old Negroes as long as they live they being no 
longer able to labour

In Witness of this our agreement and division of Negroes &c we hereunto 
severally do subscribe our hands and set out respective seals at Wilmington in 
New Hanover County the sixteenth day of December 1803 being the day on which 
the said Negroes were divided

Thomas Robeson
Thomas Robeson purchased of John Kirkwood
Thomas Robeson purchase of Jonathan Robeson
Thomas Callender
Mary Kirkwood
Anna Jane Kirkwood

Wit: Robt W Brown


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