These data are from the estate records of John CARRINGTON, who died 1 Nov 1817. As
found by Robert R. PERRY,
transcriptions are from the first folder of the estate files of John CARRINGTON on the LDS
FHL film 02057319, Estate
Records in the Archives of North Carolina, filmed by LDS on 2 Nov 1966.
The following summary, except for marriage bond dates and John CARRINGTON's birth and
death date, are data found in the
estate records of John CARRINGTON who died in 1817. A copy of an original marriage bond
may be obtained from the North
Carolina Archives. These bond dates came from USGenWeb and CARRINGTON-L messages.
John CARRINGTON, Sr., the father of the following John CARRINGTON, whose partial estate
records are transcribed here,
married Mary, who died intestate in 1814. The estate of John CARRINGTON, Sr., was settled
upon Mary's death and is
found on the LDS FHL film 02057319. During his lifetime, John, Sr. distributed his land
to his children.
1. John CARRINGTON, Sr. From other data, proof of
which is not found at this time, John was born
in 1733 and died in 1803. His wife Mary died
in 1814.
Children: John, George, others
2. John CARRINGTON died intestate on 1 Nov 1817.
Children:
Mary CARRINGTON marriage bond to John
Knight in 1792. John and Mary bought
land from John CARRINGTON in 1795 and
sold this land to George CARRINGTON.
Descendants of Mary and John are found at
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~jepzzz31.
Dicey CARRINGTON marriage bond to Arthur
Mangum on 27 Apr 1801.
Elizabeth CARRINGTON married George MOORE.
Nancy CARRINGTON married Herbert SIMS.
John J. CARRINGTON marriage bond to Fanny
CARRINGTON on 20 Jan 1810.
James CARRINGTON marriage bond to Areneah
CARRINGTON on 27 May 1800. James had one
son named James, born ca. 1801. James,
the father, died in 1801. James, the son,
had many lawsuits over his inheritance in
Orange County, North Carolina. Areneah
lived in Davidson County, Tennessee.
The following is the court record of the petition of Dicey MANGUM to divide and distribute
the land of her father to his
lawful heirs and of the court orders to assess and divide the land, acknowledgement of the
responses of the defendants,
and final decrees of the court cases pertaining to the land surveys and monies division.
Note that many of the
punctuation marks are missing as the film does not show the evaporated ink marks.
THIS IS THE 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
The defendants answered the above foregoing Petition and at September Term 1829 a Decree
being made in the said Cause is
in the words & figures following (to wit)
Dicey MANGUM vs John J. CARRINGTON & others
This cause coming to be heard upon the Petition answers of the Defendants Verdicts
rendered upon the issues made
in the Cause interlocutory Orders and exhibits filed. It is Ordered adjudged &
Decreed that Andrew BORLAND, Williamson
BURTON, Nicholas JONES, Sampson MOORE & Reuben FARTHING be appointed commissioners to
divide by Metes & Bounds the
tracts or parcels of Land mentioned in the Petition. Viz the Store house tract containing
Two hundred & Seventy six
acres more or less -- the tract of Ninety Six acres more or less adjoining the Land of
Herbert SIMS & others. The
FORSYTHE tract of Three hundred thirty four Acres more or less --- the Joel GIBSON tract
of Two hundred Acres more or
less; the tract of Twenty Six Acres and one half Acre more or less adjoining the Land of
William CAIN --- And the tract
of Seven hundred & forty Acres more or less lying and being in Person County and
bounded by the County line into six
equal dividends and appropriate the same equally among the petitioner Dicey MANGUM and the
Defendants John J.
CARRINGTON, Herbert SIMS & wife Nancy, James R. CARRINGTON, George MOORE & his
wife Elizabeth, and the heirs at Law of
Mary KNIGHT deceased in the following manner. Viz that the Commissioners in the first
place proceed to assess the value
of the tract of Land advanced to the said Mary KNIGHT by her father John CARRINGTON in his
life time of One hundred &
Seventy two and more or less lying on Mountain Creek in Orange County and bounded by the
Land of Thomas HORTEN and
others at the time such advancement was made Viz in the year 1795 and bring such value
into Hotehpot in the
ascertainment of the sixth part of the Lands to be divided of the heirs at law of her the
said Mary KNIGHT and therewith
equalizing the dividend of the said heirs with the others --- and that the said
Commissioners or any three of them may
make under their hands & Seals; to the next term of this Court to be held for Orange
County at the Court house in
Hillsborough on the Second monday in March next.
In testimony whereof of I Abner B. BRUCE, Clerk of said Court do hereunto
subscribe my name at Office
in Hillsborough the Second monday of September A.D. 1829.
(Signed) A. B. BRUCE C.S.C.
Ordered that the Sheriff of Orange County Summon the Commissioners, named in the above
Decree, to meet on the premises
and for the purposed therein expressed and that they make due return of their proceedings
in all respects as the Law
directs in such Case made & provided at the next term in March next 1830. Test A. B.
BRUCE C.S.C.
issued 3rd October 1829
--
Robert Perry
2710 Mt. Vernon Drive
Dickinson, Texas 77539
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