Wilson County, NC - Petition to Sell Land for Assets

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Lucy Ruffin <lruffin@macs.net>

This document relates to Theresa White Ruffin, wife of Duncan Lamon 
Ruffin, and is a "Petition to Sell Land for Assets." It comes from a 
Wilson County, NC Special Proceedings Book.

Superior Court: Wilson County
David Williams, Adm.
Theresa Ruffin
      vs
P. Farrow, Celia Farrow, Elizabeth Johnson, Margaret Johnson, K(i)siah 
Johnson, Charley Ruffin, Nancy Ruffin, Guilfor Ruffin
Petition to Sell Land for Assets

To the Clerk of the Superior Court for said County:
The petition of David Williams Administrator respectfully showeth-
Outstanding debts about $75. Value of personal estate (0000) nothing.
That, at the time of her death, the said intestate was seized in fee 
simple of the following land, a tract of land in Wilson County adjoining 
the lands R. D. Johnson, P. S. Petway & others, containing twelve acres, 
or thereabouts of the value of about $10 per acre.
Your petitioner further showeth-
										                  (  ?  ) Blount
                                         Attorney for Petitioner

David Williams, Adm.
      vs
Perry Farrow & wife & others
The administrator begs leave to report that in accordance with an(d)
order hertofore issued that he, after having given the required notice 
offered for sale the land discribed in the petition, on the 14th day of 
January 1871 at the Court House door in the Town of Wilson, where and 
when P. S. Petway appeared and bid the sum of three hundred dollars 
which being the last and highest bid, he was declared the purchaser who 
immediately complied with the terms of sale. The administrator further 
reports that the price is a fair one and recommends the confirmation 
thereof.
																																				D. Williams, Adm.
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