Robeson County NcArchives Photo Document.....Minutes ************************************************ 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: Donna Newman centavo@lserv.com January 21, 2013, 4:02 pm Source: F H L Microfilm #554636 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2615gph.jpg Image file size: 261.3 Kb County court minutes 1797-1813, North Carolina, Superior Court (Robeson County) (/) torn [Deeds were always either "acknowledged in open court" or "proved by oath of...." and then ordered to be registered; to eliminate redundancy, these have been abstracted simply as "acknowledged" or "proved by...."] Page 236 [image 121a] At a county court of pleas and Quarter sessions begun and held for the county of Robeson on Monday the fourth day of April and twenty seventh year of American Independence AD 1803 Present the worshipful Elias Barnes Duncan Campbell & John Little Esquires The sheriff returned the Venire Facias from which the court selected the following gentlemen to attend as grand juros during this term / to wit / Hugh Brown Foreman Angus McGill Neill McGill Robert McLauchlan Peter Lamon James Humphrey Angus McDugald Hector McMillan Washington Cade Wm Brown Archibald Smith Neill McAlpin & Archd Rae and John Rae constable sworn to attend them Ordered that Alexander Grimes be overseer of the road in room of Hector McMillan Last will & testament of Finlan McCorvey proved by Daniel Smith and admited to record when Hugh Brown Neill Buie Danl Buie Edward McCorvey & Naprez McCorvey qualified as executors to said will Ordered that the following hands hereafter work under William Gilchrist overseer of the road / to wit / John Pursel & his hands Malcom Gilchrist & his hands Archd McMillans hands Randoll Curries hands and Malcom McLeod Ordered that John McEacharn be overseer of the road in room of John Buie Page 237 [image 121b] Ordered that John McDaniel be overseer of the post road from Campbells Bridge to John McPhauls old field & the hands work on said road as they formerly did under John Millan Ordered that Gilbert Brumble pay to Pheby Cox five pounds for the year 1803 for the maintenance of a bastard child whereon he stands charged to be the reputed father Ordered that Henry Purvis be overseer of the road from the Bear spring on Jacobs swamp Simon Coxes and that the following hands work under him / to wit / Jospeh Atkinson William Atkinson Curtis Sugs Josiah Ivey Wiley Taylor James Taylor Levi Cox Simon Cox Junr Benjamin Lovet Henry Lovet Meredith Barnes Jethro Barnes & Jesse Barnes Administration on the estate of Saml Kennedy deceased is granted to Roger McSwain & Duncan Campbell who qualified as such and entered into bond in the sum of five hundred pounds with Daniel Campbell their securities Ordered that the admr of the estate of Saml Kennedy deceased sell said estate and return an amount of said sales to next court Ordered that the sheriff summon the following gentlemen to attend as jurors of the next Superior Court for the District of Fayetteville / to wit Thomas Sewell Robert Haills John Little Elias Barnes & Noah Pitman Ordered that Jacob Pitman be overseer of the road in room of Robert Bullard File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2615gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb