Orange County NcArchives Wills.....Mangum, Arthur November 24, 1789 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ben Franklin ben.franklin.ffru@gmail.com May 2024 Source: Loose Will, NC Archives CR 073.801, Will Book Volume B, pages 100-101 Written: November 24, 1789 Recorded: Aug 1793 Testator: Arthur Mangum In the name of God Amen I Arthur Mangum of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina, being in pirfect Sense and memory, but Calling to mind the mortality of Man that it is appointed for all men once to die I do make and ordain this My last Will and testament disanuling all Other Wills by my heretofore made, first and principally I give and bequeathe my Soul into the hands of Almity God who gave it me and my body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and all the worldly goods it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give devise and dispose of in the form & manner following ----- Imprimis I give and bequeathe to my beloved Wife Lucy During hir widow hood or life four hundred acres of land in cluding thi plantation whereon I now live also one Negro Wench named Peg & Child Peg[?] also on[e] negroe fellow named Jutus also one negro Wench named Judy and her in Crease also household and Kitchen furniture also [blot out] two work Horses and Allen the Gray Coult also --- --- --- Item I give and be queathe to my Son William Mangum two hundred acres of Land adjoining Sihon Bobetts line and John Mizes Line and bound- ed on the rig [ridge] path to the East Runing on a square for complement to him & his Heirs for ever Item I give and bequeathe to my Daughter Sallay Bobitt five head of Hoggs --------- Item I give and bequeathe to my Daughter Holley one hundred acres of Land joining John Mizes & James Bobbetts[Roberts?] line and William Mangums, and also one negroe boy named Sam and one Horse named Dick, & Sadle Item I give and bequeathe to my Daughter Clarey[?] one hundred acres of Land joining of Holley Land and one Negro Girl named Seal[?] and a Sorrel Mare and Saddle -- Item I give and bequeathe to my Daughter Chaney one hundred and fifty Acres of Land joining of Clennisses Land and James Bobbatt s[Robbart s] Line, and one Negro boy named Jack ---- also two Cows and Calves and ten pounds specie also one sow and piggs -- --- --- Item I give and bequeathe to my Son Arthur Mangum two Cows and Calves and two Sows Item I give and bequeathe to my Son Willie Mangum stevin[?] pounds specie My Will and Desire is that after my Just dibts are paid the remainder of my Estate that is not already given away (both real and personal be Equally Devided betwen my Son[s] William Arthur and Wilie Mangum and my Daughters Holley and Clary and Cheni Mangum to them and their heirs for eaver ---- Item Lastly, I appoint Constitute and ordain my true and trusty friends John Carrington and William Mangum Juneir to be the Executors of this my last will and testament in Witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth Day of November 1789 and Signed Published and Declared In the presence of -------------- Arthur (seal) [Will Book Volume B, page 100] In the name of God Amen I Arthur Mangum of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina, being in perfect Sense and memory [but] calling to mind the mortality of Man that it is appointed for all men once to die [I] Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament disanuling all other Wills by my heretofore made, first and principally I give and bequeath my Soul into the hands of Almighty God, who gave it me and my body to the Earth to be burid in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, and all the worldly goods it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give devise and dispose of in the form & manner following ----- Imprimis I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Lucy during her widowhood or life four hundred Acres of land including the plantation whereon I now live also one Negroe Wench named Peg & Child [Peg?] also one negroe fellow named Jutus also one negroe Wench named Judy and her increase also [household] and Kitchen furniture also two work Horses [and Allen] the Gray Colt also --- Item I give and bequeath to my Son William Mangum two hundred Acres of Land adjoining Sihon Bobetts line and John Mize Line and bounded on the ridge path to the East runing on a square for complement to him and his Heirs for ever ---- Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Salley Bobitt five head of Hoggs -- Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Holley one hundred Acres of Land adjoining John Mizes s & James Bobbetts line & William Mangums, and also one negroe boy named Sam & one Horse named Dick, & Saddle. Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Clarey one hundred Acres of Land adjoining of Holley Land & one Negroe Girl named Seal & a Sorrel Mare and Saddle. Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Chaney one hundred & fifty Acres of Land adjoining of Clennisses Land and James Bobbitts Line, and one Negro boy named Jack, also two Cows & Calves and ten pounds Specia, also one Sow & piggs -- --- --- Carr'd Over [Will Book Volume B, page 101] Brought Over Item I give and bequeath to my Son Arthur Mangum two Cows & Calves & two Sows ---- ---- Item I give and bequeath to my Son William Mangum Ten pounds Specia -- Item my Will and desire is that after my Just Debts are paid the remainder of my Estate that is not [already] given away [both real and personal] be [Equally] divided between my Sons William & Arthur & Wilie [Mangum] & my Daughters Holley & Clary & Chene Mangum to them and their Heirs forever ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Lastly I appoint Constitute and Ordain my true and trusty friends John Carrington & Wm. Mangum junior [to be the] Executors of this my last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty fourth day of November 1789 Signed Published & declared In the presence of Arth W (seal) Additional Comments: Will Book Volume B, pages 100-101 Recorded Aug 1793 Estate Papers comprise 131 pages and are found in a folder labeled "Mangum, Arthur (1789)". This folder contains a mix of two estates, that of this will's testator who died in November 1789, and the estate of his son, Arthur Mangum who died in 1813, leaving widow Dicey and children: Durrell, William Cynthia, Clary, Wiley & Arthur, listed as under 21 in August 1826. John J. Carrington was the Administrator of this estate. Son of testator Wiley died intestate without issue. [Estate Papers - Petitioner to Divide Land Nov 1795] State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Orange County } November Term 1795 To the worshipful the Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Orange The amended Petition of William Mangum, Sion Bobbit and Sarah his Wife, Williams Cozart and Hawley his Wife, David Parker and Clarimond his Wife, Chaney Mangum, Arthur Mangum and Wilie Mangum Infants by their Guardian and next friend the above named William Mangum and of Lucy Mangum widow of the said Arthur Mangum deceased, --- Humbly sheweth, That your Petitioners filed their Petition in this Worshipful Court in February term 1795, wherein they stated that Arthur Mangum died intestate some time in the year 1789, leaving your Petitioner Lucy c[?] Mangum his widow and Relict, and seven Children to wit your Petitioners William Sarah, Hawley, Clarimond, Chaney, Arthur and Wilie - that your Petitioner Sion Bobbit has married Sarah - Your Petitioner Williams Cozart, Hawley -- and your Petitioner David Parker, Clarimond --- That the said Arthur Mangum died possessed of a large personal Estate. - and that Administration of the Goods and Chattels Rights and Credits that were of the said Arthur Mangum deceased had been granted by this Worshipful Court to John Carrington in August Term 1790, in virtue whereof the said John Carrington possessed himself of the said Estate of the aforesaid Arthur Mangum deceased and sold a great part of the same to the value of Five hundred pounds or some other larger and more considerable sum -- You Petitioners therein further stated that the said John Carrington was or had been in possession of a certain Specie Certificate of the value of One hundred pounds or thereabout the property of the said Arthur Mangum deceased for which the said John Carrington never had accounted -- That there were outstanding debts due and owing to the said Arthur at the time of his death to the amount of one hundred pounds or upwards -- That your Petitioner were respectively entitled to [page 2] a distributive share of the said Arthur's Estate after the payment of his Debts -- And that the said John Carrington had wholly refused to ---- account with your Petitioners. -- Your Petitioners now further shew that over and beside the property herein before mentioned as having been sold by the said John Carrington and also over and besides the amount of the outstanding debts above specified, he the said John Carrington in virtue of his said Administration became possess of the following notes of hand - Viz. -- as will more fully appear in and by a Schedule of property of the said Arthur Mangum deceased returned by the said John Carrington and filed among the Records of the Worshipful Court to which your Petitioners crave leave to refer - the amount of all which notes he the said John Carrington hath since received together with the Interest accruing thereon --- You Petitioners further shew that the said John Carrington has received in virtue of his said Administration the sum of Fifty pounds or thereabouts from Matthew McCawley, and also the sum of £11.19.7 or thereabouts from one John Mise being the among of 11 1/2 acres of land at twenty shilling and ten pence per Acre which the said John Mise owed to the said Arthur Mangum in his life time --- also the sum of sixteen shillings from one Joseph Waller who owed the same to the said Arthur Mangum in his life time --- also the amount of an account which the said Arthur Mangum in his life time had proved against the Estate of one James Vaughan, of which the Exact sum is unknown to your Petitioners, -- also the sum of Thirty pounds or thereabouts which the said John Carrington as Administrator aforesaid recovered by Suit at Law against one Thomas Young, and your Petitioners aver that these several last mentioned accounts and sums so ---- received by the said John Carrington have not been by him returned in his Inventory as of Right they ought to have been. --- Your Petitioners further shew that the said John Carrington hath hitherto wholly refused to settle or account with them for or to pay them their respective shares of the said Intestate's Estate sometimes pretending and giving out in speeches that he has received nothing [page 2] nothing in his capacity as Administrator aforesaid, Whereas in truth and in fact he has in that capacity received the several larg[e] and considerable sums herein before set forth, together with others which your Petitioners are not able to specify by reason of the concealment of the said John in that regard. -- At other times admitting that he has received large sums of money and other property of great value in said capacity of Administrator, but pretending that the said Arthur Mangum died greatly involved in debt, and that the said Money and property so received by him the said John Carrington as Administrator aforesaid has been paid and disposed of in discharge of said debts, Whereas in in truth and in fact the said Arthur Mangum at the time of his death owed no debts whatso[e]ver, or if he did owe any they wee Extremely small and trifling in value. -- At other times the said John Carrington will admit that he has received large sums of money as Administrator aforesaid, but pretend that the said Arthur Mangum at the time of his decease was indebted to him the said John to the amount or more than the amount of the sums he has received as Administrator and that he therefore has a right to retain the property come to his hands as Administrator in discharge of the debt so due him by the said Intestate - Whereas in truth and in fact the said John instead of being a Creditor of the said Arthur Mangum at the time of his death, was at that time largely indebted to him - for your Petitioners alledge that some time before the death of the said Arthur Mangum to wit in March 1788 a settlement took place between the said Arthur and the said John - when it appeared by the accounts of both parties that he said Arthur was indebted to the said John in the sum of Twenty seven pounds for which the said Arthur gave his bond to the said John, and at or about the same time the said John bought a horse of the said Arthur at the price of Fifty dollars, and it was agreed at the time of the said settlement that the Debt of Fifty dollars due by the said John to the said Arthur for the horse should stand against the Debt of Twenty seven pounds due by the said Arthur by his Bond to the said John, and that the said Bond should not thereafter bear Interest that the said parties were then entirely clear and discharged each for the other. --- And your Petitioners further shew that since the Said [page 3] Said settlement and before the death of the Said Arthur - the said John became indebted to the said Arthur for the sum of £17.0.6 but to him the said John at Granville Court in May 1788 - And also in the further sum of £27 or thereabouts it being the value of a Tarbrough inspected Tobacco Note for 1200 lbs of Tobacco lent the said John by the said Arthur in January or February 1789, which said Tobacco was then worth and sold for 45/per hundred weight. Also for the further sum of £42.10.-- paid by one William Roberts to the said John for and on behalf of the said Arthur in June 1789 or thereabouts -- Also for the further sum of £18.6.7 or thereabouts it being the value of 1222 lbs of parcelled Tobacco of 30/ /Cwt delivered by the said Arthur to one John Knight at the special instance and request of the said John. --- And because it may be alledged by the said John Carrington that the said Arthur Mangum after the settlement of March 1788 and before his death contracted other debts with the said John (the contrary of which your Petitioners aver to be true / - Your Petitioners pray that the said John Carrington may be compelled by the process of this Worshipful Court to produce his Books at the next succeeding Term before this Worshipful Court or such persons as they may appoint for that purpose in order that the same may be inspected and Examined as far as related to the transactions and dealing of the said John Carrington with the said Arthur Mangum deceased or any of your Petitioners And your Petitioners pray that the said John may be compelled by the process of this Court full true and perfect answer to make on his corporal oath to all and singular the matters and things herein contained in as full and ample a manner as if they were here again repeated and put by interrogatories - and further that he may on his said oath fully fairly & clearly account with your Petitioners for and about all his transactions and dealing of whatsoever nature with the said Arthur Mangum in his life time, and as his Administrator since his death - and that he may pay over to your Petitioners and each of them their respective shares of the said Estate as the Worshipful Court shall decree and direct - And whereas by Some or one of the Acts [page 4] Acts of the General Assembly of this State it is enacted among other things to the foll'g effect that all Administrators shall settle with such persons as are entitled to distributive shares of Intestates Estates within two years after they shall have obtained their letters of Administration - and whereas several to wit three years have passed since the said John Carrington obtained his said letters of Administration over and besides the said two years allowed him to settle by the Act of the General Assembly as aforesaid --- Your Petitioners therefore pray that this Worshipful Court will decree the said John Carrington to pay such damages and Interest on the sum due your Petitioners by the said John Carrington at the time he was by law bound to ---------- settle with them, as the Court shall think meet for the ----------- detention aforesaid. And your Petitioners pray that the Court will grant them such other and further relief as they in their discretion shall think fit. ------- William Nash Counsel for Petitioners [Estate Papers - Inventory 21 Aug 1790] An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Arthur Mangum Dec'd taken this 21st day of Augt. 1790 [sundry items omitted] 7 Negroes [Estate Papers - Estate Sale 24 Sep 1790] September 24th 1790 A list of sundry goods sold at the Land of Arthur Mangum deceased By the Sheriff of the County and Returned By Mr John Carrington Executor on the Said [e]state [sundry articles omitted] to 1 Negron wench and Child 116..0..0 [Estate Papers - Estate Sale 19 Mar 1813] A list of the property of Arthur Mangum Decd sold on the 18th day of March A.D. 1813 on nine months Credit sold by John J. Carrington Admr. of sd deceased [sundry items omitted] Wm Hall 1 Negro Girl Lot ---- 191.-- Wm P. Mangum one Negro boy Lewis -- 132.01 1 Negro woman Peg -- -- -- 101.01 1 Negro Man Jaba -- -- -- 100.-- William Duke Senr 1 Negro girl Hannah 375.50 John Hunt 1 Negro man named Edmund 470.50 [sundry items omitted] Additional Inventory & account of Sales of the personal property of Arthur Mangum Decd. return by John J. Carrington Admr One Negro fellow by the name of Jack who was under mortgage to one David Parker by said intestate & redeemed by said Carrington by paying $400.00 on the 31st day Jany 1815 & Sold 20th February at public sale to Wm. P. Mangum at six month Credit for $810.30 cts [Note: Some of this was not legible in this copy, but there are several copies of this from which parts were read.]