NCSA Gates County Estates Records C.R.041.508.23 Abram CROSS 1821 file

State of No. Carolina/ Be it remembered that on the 18th of January 1821 James CROSS
Columbus County / of Gates County died Intestate leaving behind him a mother brothers and sisters on whom his Estate descended by Inheritance
Know ye that I Moore LENNON and Wife Sarah LENNON (formerly Sarah CROSS) Do by these presents for and in consideration of the honor and respect due to a Mother in the decline of life and the good will we bear to a sister and brother in law do freely voluntarily and of Our own mind Give Grant bargain and sell and by these presents doth Give Grant bargain and sell to Priscilla CROSS and Edwin CROSS and wife all our part of the Estate of said James CROSS dec'd (viz) the money part to said Priscilla CROSS and the land part to said Edwin CROSS and wife
The aforesaid Estate so coming we warrant and forever defend unto the said Priscilla CROSS and Edwin CROSS and wife Free and clear from the claim or claimes [sic] of us our Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 10th of May 1834.

Haynes LENNON Wright LENNON (X )

Sign'd and seald Moore LENNON (Seal) in presence of Sarah LENNON (Seal)

 

NCSA Gates County Estates Records C.R.041.508.24 James CROSS 1821 file

State of North Carolina }
Gates County } In Equity
To the Honbl. the Judges of the Court of Equity for the County aforesaid This bill of complaint of Priscilla CROSS of the County and State aforesaid shews your honor that one James CROSS the son of your -orator- [crossed out] /oratrix/ [interlined] departed this life in the year 1821 intestate having as his only distributees brothers & sisters and your oratrix. That administration upon the estate of the said James was committed to one -Edward- /Elisha/ CROSS a brother of the said James who duly qualified himself for the discharge of the duties of said office, and as such administrator collected the debts due the said James and reduced the other personal assets of his intestate into? possession, and paid off the debts due from the said James and then died having a large fund due -of- the distributees of the said James of one thousand five hundred dollars or more. That upon the death of the said -Edward- /Elisha/ CROSS intestate administration upon his estate was committed to one Abram CROSS of the said County who took into his possesion all the estates? in action and personal assets of his intestate into his possession amounting to five thousand dollars or more. That the said Abram being impressed with the belief that as the [2nd page] administrator of the said -Edward- /Elisha/ he succeeded to the rights of the personal representative of the said James, took into his possession all the funds which the Said -Edward- /Elisha/ held belonging to the estate of the said James and distributed the Same at different times among the distributees of the Said James, with the exception of Sarah LENNON to whom he never paid any thing, and charged such payments in the accounts kept by him as the administrator of the said -Edward- /Elisha/ CROSS. That the said Abram as the administrator of the said -Edward- /Elisha/ in the year 1824 procured the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of the said County to appoint certain respectable individuals to State and audite his accounts as the administrator of the said Edwin [sic] which account so stated the said Abram returned to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the Said County and in it the said Abram Charges the estate of the Said -Edward- /Elisha/ with the Sum of one hundred & Eighty one 16 1/2/100 Dollars "the amount of Kurstook [sic] WATSON & wifes claim not applied for" all of which will appear by reference to the said account now on file in the /Clerks/ office of the said Court. Your oratrix further Charges that the said Kurstook WATSON spoken of in the said entry of the said account [3rd page] intermarried with -Sarah- the said Sarah who is a sister of the said James in the year [blank] he being at that time a resident of South Carolina, where he and the said Sarah continued to reside until the year [blank] when the said WATSON died leaving the said Sarah Surviving. That the said Sarah has since married one Moore LENNON of the County of Columbus in the State of North Carolina, and that the said Sarah and her present husband Moore LENNON have by a deed bearing date the 10th day of May 1834 bargained transferred and assigned to your oratrix the distributive share of her the said Sarah of the estate of the said James CROSS, and that by virtue of the said assignment your oratrix is well entitled to to [sic] receive the same. Your oratrix shews your honour that Since the said assignment has been executed to her, she has by her frinds? applied to John R NORFLEET the administrator of the said Abram CROSS, the said Abram having departed this life some time in the year 1830, for the payment of the said distributive share, which he has refused to do, and that previous to the Said assignment as well in the life time of the said Abram as since his death -applications- similar applications have been made with no success. Forasmuch as [4th page] Your oratrix is remediless in the premises at will? by the strict rules of the common law, and can not have adequate relief save in a court of Equity, where matters of this sort are cognizable and relievable To the end therefore that the said John R NORFLEET may /upon his corporal? oath/ careless? assets of his testator, and that he may answer the premises in as full and ample a manner as if the Same were here repeated and be specially interrogated thereto, and that he may be decreed to pay? to your oratrix the full amount that was due the said Sarah as one of the distributees of the said James, And for general relief. And may it please your honor to grant to your oratrix a writ of Subpoena with a copy of this bill to be served upon the said John R NORFLEET administrator of the said Abram to appear &c. And your oratrix will ever pray Aug MOORE Sol for Compl.

[Back of document: Priscilla CROSS vs John R NORFLEET admr of Ab. CROSS Orig Bill To Spring Term 1835 A. M.

Transcribed 3 March 2003
by Raymond Parker Fouts