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, 4:38 pm Source: F H L Microfilm #554636 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2634gph.jpg Image file size: 287.1 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 274 [image 140a] Alexander Patterson Duncan Campbell and John Little Esquires who was appointed to settle with Nancy Campbell admx of Danl Campbell deceased made a report which was ordered to be filed The last will and testament of John Rowland deceased proved by James Lee and Isham Pitman Junr and admited to record when Alfred & Alexr Rowland qualified as execrs to said will Ordered that Duncan McAlpin and Alexr Little's negro boy Jacob hereafter work on Alexander Littles bridge Ordered that the county trustee pay to John Regan Register the sum of eighteen pounds twelve shillings and six pence in full compensation for his books furnished by him as Register James Lee appointed constable in Captain Lees district who entered into bond with Richard Grantham Junr his security William Ward appointed constable in Captain Stephen Sterlings District who entered into bond wiht Benjamin Loe his security The execr of Jacob Banres deceased returned an inventory of the deceaseds estate ordered to be filed Solomon Thomas filed his petition in this court praying five commissioners to be appointed agreeable to an act of assembly to divide the lands of his deceased father agreeable to his will ordered therefore that Robert Haill John Storm William Regan James Smith & William Moore Senr be commissioners to divide the same and make report of their proceedings to next court Ordered that David Torry James McNeill Robert McLauchlan ? McNeill & Hector McNeill be a committee to divide the [estate of] Danl McPherson deceased and make a report of [their proceedings] to next court Page 275 [image 140b] Alexander Patterson Duncan Campbell & Archd Buie ? who was appointed a committee to settle with David ? guardian to the orphans of Robert Councill deceased reported that there was due said orphans in the hands of said guardian the sum of £77..12..5 which report was ordered to be filed Whereas it appears that the following persons Inhabitants of Captain Buies district / to wit / Peter Smith Branson Barlow William Munroe John McPhail Senr John McPhail Junr Malcom McGugan John Patterson & Andrew Puff have actually given in their lists of taxable property in the above mentioned district agreeable to law but owing to some contentions with respect to boundery lines are supposed to be liable to taxation in Captain McNeills District - ordered that the above named persons be exempt from the payment of all taxes as Inhabitants of Captain Buies District Ordered that a Negro boy of James Stevens by the name Reubin hereafter be exempt from working on publick roads William Herring Esqr returned an execution [at] the suit of Nathan Horn against ? for seventeen pounds ten shillings with interest and costs levied by Richard Grantham constable on one hundred & fifty acres of land ordered that the sheriff sell the same Court adjourned untill tomorrow nine oclock Wednesday January the 4th 1804 Court met according to adjournment Present the worshipful Jospeh Wood Sampson Bridgers Noah Pitman & ? Esquires File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2634gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb