Sampson County, NC - Jonathan & Everitt Carr Petition, 1839

State of North Carolina }  Court of Pleas and
Sampson County          }  Quarter Sessions Aug't Term 1839

To the Justices of sd Court
The Petition of Jonathan Carr and Everitt Carr humbly Shewith unto 
your Worships that their father Jonathan Carr late of said County 
died seized and possessed of the following lands and teniments in 
said County to wit

Beginning at a stake on the run of Reaves dam creek swamp Buntings 
corner 4 poles above the main road, thence as his line So 37 wt 6 
poles, thence down course 1/4 poles to a stake near the road thence 
So 2 1/2 Et crossing the road 21 poles So 87 Et 20 poles So 35 Et 
22 poles So 53 Et 14 poles So 50 E 48 poles to a stake by a water 
oak at the Mechims ditch run thence up the run So 32 Wt 9 poles So 
74 Wt 8 poles to a Birch on the side of the run Buntings other 
corner of a 23 acres deed thence the lines of sd deed So 30 Wt 10 
poles to a Stake thence So 52 Wt 12 poles to a Post Oak thence So 
35 Wt 34 poles

Which said land divided to your Petitioners and Harry B. Carr and 
Ann Turner who intermarried with Alfred Turner and also to the 
Heirs at Law of (blank) Rawls namely Mary, Ann, Elizabeth and 
Rachel Rawls

And your Petitioners further shew unto your Worships that the said 
Harry B. Carr and Ann Turner & husband resides in the State of 
Mississippi that the said (blank) are minors and that your Petitioner 
Everette has been appointed their guardian

Your Petitioners therefore pray your Worships to Decree a Partition 
of said lands among the Heirs at Law of the said Jonathan Carr dec'd 
and for that purpose that five Commissioners should be appointed to 
make such partition as is prayed for & that they may present their 
proceedings to the next Term of this Court and that your Worships 
will grant such other and further relief on the premisis as the 
nature of their case may require and as shall deem needed & right 
to your Worships & we will ever pray

                                    [signature illegible]


Source: Sampson Co, NC Estates Records 1784-1923
        Carson v. Caswell
        CR.087.508.12
        Two estates in this folder
        More in folder not copied

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