CARRINGTONDiceyLawSuit

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Title	CARRINGTONDiceyLawSuit
Author	Records of the Orange County (NC) Supreme Court
Source ID	S1077
Text	DOCUMENT OF THE ORANGE COUNTY SUPREME COURT The State of North Carolina Be it remembered that heretofore Dicey Mangum Exhibited & filed her Petition in the Clerk's Office of the Superior Court of Law for Orange against John J. Carrington & others in the words and figures following (to wit) State of North Carolina Orange County Superior Court of Law September Term 1821 The Petition of Dicey Mangum against John J. Carrington, George Moore & Elizabeth his wife, Herbert Sims & Nancy his wife, Carrington Knight, William Knight, John Knight, Nancy Knight, Elizabeth Knight Jeptha Knight, James Knight, Jefferson Knight, Meekins Knight, Raleigh Knight, Mary Knight, and James Carrington by his guardian John J. Carrington. Humbly sheweth unto your Honor that your Petitioner's Father John Carrington late of the State and County aforesaid departed this life Intestate about the first day of November 1817 seized and prosessed of a large and valuable Real Estate lying and being in the Counties of Orange & Person in the State aforesaid Viz • of a tract called the Store house tract containing Two hundred & Twenty six Acres more or less adjoining the Lands of William Cain & John J. Carrington; • of one other tract of Ninety Acres more or less adjoining the Lands of Herbert Sims & others; • of one other tract of Three hundred and thirty four acres more or less called the Forsythe tract adjoining the lands of Abraham Parker & others; • of one other tract of Two hundred acres more or less called the Joel Gibson tract adjoining the land of Col. William HUNT & others; • of one other tract of Twenty six & half Acres more or less adjoining the Land of William Cain; • of one other tract called the ALSTON tract of two hundred & five & one half Acres more or less adjoining the Land of Col. William HUNT and William Cain --- all of which tracts lie in the County of Orange aforesaid --- • And of one other tract of Seven hundred & forty Acres more or less lying in the County of Person and bounded by the county line. --- Your Petitioner further sheweth unto your Honor that the said John Carrington deceased left him surviving the following Persons his children and heirs at Law Viz • John J. Carrington of the County of Orange & State of North Carolina, • Nancy Sims Wife of Herbert Sims of the said County & State, • Mary Knight wife of John Knight of the State of Georgia, • Elizabeth Moore wife of George Moore of the State of Tennessee and • your Petitioner, your Petitioner further sheweth that your Petitioner's Father had one other Son by the name of James who died in the year 1801 leaving him surviving a Son by the name of James Carrington his heir at Law who is now residing in Orange aforesaid an infant under the age of twenty one years to whom John J. Carrington had been appointed Guardian by the County Court of Orange, that the aforesaid Mary Knight departed this life in the year 1820 leaving her surviving the following children her heirs at Law Viz • Carrington • Jefferson, • John, • Nancy, • Elizabeth, • Jeptha, • James, • William Knight, • Meekins, • Raleigh & • Mary Knight all of whom reside in the State of Georgia and the eight last of whom are Infants under the age of twenty one years. Your Petitioner further sheweth that her father in his life time made advancements to several of his aforesaid Children by giving to them respectively the tract or parcel of Land following Viz • to Mary Knight aforesaid one tract of one hundred & Seventy two Acres more or less lying on Mountain creek in the County of Orange adjoining the lands of Thomas Horten & others; • to Nancy Sims aforesaid one tract of Two hundred & twenty Acres more or less in said County adjoining the Land of David Parker & others; • to James Carrington deceased aforesaid one tract containing two hundred & twenty five Acres more or less called the red Cabbin tract adjoining the Land of William HUNT & others; • to John J. Carrington one tract containing Three hundred and Ninety nine acres more or less adjoining the Land of William Cain; both of said last mentioned tracts lying in the County of Orange. Your Petitioner is advised and beleives that she is by the Laws of Descent entitled to one Sixth part of the land aforesaid to the end therefore that an equal Partition of said Land may be made among the Defendants in this Petition and your Petitioner. Your Petitioner prays that this Court may appoint Commissioners to Survey and make Partition of said Land according to Law and report the same to this Court and that your Honor may make what other and further Order in the premises that may to your Honor seem meet and your Petitioner will ever pray. P. H. Mangum atty pro Petn
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