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Subject: Re: Foreman, Benjamin and/or Edward
Date: 22 Jan 2002 17:24:53 -0700

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Transcribed from the Original
Located in the State Archives, Raleigh, NC
By Ben Askew,Jr and Owen Harrell

State of North Carolina December Term 1802
Pasquotank County

To the worshipful Justices of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County
aforesaid-
The Petition of Christopher Cartwright and Mary his wife,William Snowden and Sarah his wife,
Benjamin Foreman and Thomas Foreman ,humblt shewith,that Joseph Foreman late of the said county
desceased died intestate seized and possessed a small tract of land lying and being in said County
aforesaid containing about thirty acres which ------ to your petitioners Mary,Sarah Benjamin,Moses and
four other children.Namely Clarkey,Robert,James and Nancy as Tenants in Common ,and your
petitioners further show that they are desirous of obtaining a partition of the said land and humbly pray
that ------ ----Esq., James White ,Nathan (?Obieman?),John (?---?) and Hugh Knox may be appointed to
divide the same agreeably to the directions of the acts of the General Assembly in just care made and
provided And your petitioners also show that the four youngest children namely Clarkey,Robert,James
and Nancy are infants under age and have no guardian they therefore pray that some decent person may
be appointed by the worshipful Court ----- that Justice is ------- to them in the partition of the said land
And your partitioners as in ?duty

?-----------------?for the petitioners

Hugh Knox appointed as guardian ---
For the infants ?said?

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