PERSON COUNTY, NC - COURT - Petition to Sell for Division - Reuben Walton
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Petition to Sell for Division - Reuben Walton

North Carolina               In Equity
  Person County              Spring Term 1860
To the Honorable the Judge of said Court
This petition of Abner Walton, Loftin Walton, Jesse Walton, Martha Walton, 
James W. Featherston and Nancy his wife, Ransom Frederick & Joanna his wife, 
Mary, John, Samuel & Charley Woods children of Ezekial & Elizabeth Woods 
desc, who are minors, and in their behalf by their next friend the said James 
W. Featherston  and William son of John Stephens & Eliza his late wife who 
also is a minor & sues by his next friend the said James W. Featherston and 
children of Solomon Peed & Nicey his late wife..
Respectfully showeth unto your Honor that Reuben Walton late of said County 
died intestate & without a wife during the present year leaving him surviving 
aforesaid petitioners, Abner Walton, Lofton Walton, Jesse Walton, Martha 
Walton, Nancy wife of the said James W. Featherston, & Joanna wife of the 
said Ransom Frederick his children & Mary, John, Samuel & Charley Woods 
children of Ezekial & Elizabeth Woods, both desc, which said Elizabeth was a 
daughter of said Reuben Walton...children of Solomon Peed & Nicey his late 
wife who also was a daughter of said Reuben Walton and William son of John 
Stephens & Eliza his late wife who also was a daughter of said Reuben 
Walton...grandchildren & only heirs at law upon whom his real estate 
descended between them to be divided as tenants in common.
And your petitioners further show the said intestate was at the time of his 
death seized in fee simple of a tract of land situated in the County 
aforesaid & a part thereon leading from Leasburg to Roxboro adjoining the 
lands of John Harris, James Wagstaff & others --- said tract consisting of 
about three hundres acres.
And your petitioners further show that they desire to have partition of said 
lands made amongst them according to their respective rights and interests 
therein, but that oweing to the size of the said tract of land, the number of 
the parties interested, the nature & quality of the soil, & other causes, it 
is impossible that actual partition thereof can be made without serious 
injury to the parties interested.  Your petitioners therefore pray your Honor 
to order a sale of said land, on such terms as your Honor shall deem just & 
reasonable & that the proceeds of the sale may be divided among them 
according to their respective shares & interest, in the said land & may be 
paid to & secured for them according to law & the c----? of this Honorable 
Court.
And your petitioners are in duty bound will ever pray          
                                               M. McGehee  Sol.
                                                for petitioners