ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Mary Jane Kirkland Petition
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Petition to Court by Mary Jane Kirkland concerning estate of her deceased 
husband John Kirkland

State of North Carolina
Orange County

I Mary Jane Kirkland do hereby release all my right to administer on the 
estate of John Kirkland late of Orange County, my husband, now deceased.

And I do hereby request that Thomas Webb of Hillsborough may be appointed his 
administrator.

Witness my hand and seal this 5th Oct 1874.
Witness
J.W. Norwood			Mary Jane Kirkland (seal)

William S. Kirkland and Elizabeth Kirkland, Isabella Kirkland, Margaret Long 
wife of Thomas Long all of Orange County are the only surviving next of kin of 
John Kirkland deceased being his brother and sisters.  He had three other 
brothers Samuel who died in Orange County leaving children, Joseph who died 
before said John in the western country without even having been married, 
Johnston, who died in Arkansas leaving children, tho nothing known of them

And William Kirkland states that it is the wish of the next of kin here that 
Thomas Webb shall act as administrator of John Kirkland deceased.

Oct 5, 1874

Witness
J. W. Norwood				W. J. Kirkland

(on the back of the petition - numbers in () were written above the boys' 
names)
Mary J Kirkland widow, Thos R (18), Ervin J (14), John (10), land 124 acres on 
Old Field Creek adj Mary Freeland, C W Johnston, & Matilda Hogan.