Balser Isley, Jr. - Estate Records
Transcribed by Peggy Reece Bruckner, January 7, 2001
from NC State Archives Copy
Guilford County Original Estate, NC 1778-1942 CR.046.508.130
Balser Iseley 1848
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Petition for Partition of Land
John Isely & Others
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North Carolina } Superior Court of Law
Guilford County } Spring Term 1849
To the Honorable the judge of the Court
aforesaid
The petition of John Isley, Polly
Iseley,Emanuel Iseley, and Nathaniel Isely the
last named an infant under the age of
twenty one years who petitions on his behalf
by his brother and next friend
John Isely.
Humbly Complaining shew unto your
Honor your petitioners aforesaid that they
are the only Children and heirs at Law
of Balser Iseley decd late of said County
who departed this life intestate in the later
part of the year 1848 ~ That the sd
Balser died signed and possessed of two
tracts of land one in the County of Guilford
and the other in the County of Orange.
The first the home tract upon which sd
Isely resided adjoining the lands of David
Greeson, Roddy Cotner, and others &
Containing one hundred and eighty six
acres ~ The Second adjoining the lands of
Isaac May & others in Orange and containing
ninety eight acres ~
Your petitioners shew unto your Honor
that Catherine Isely the widow of said
intestate has applied for her dower in the
said lands which has been decreed to
her by the County Court of Guilford at
February Term last ~ that said lands
have descended upon your petitioners
as heirs at law of the said deceased ~
that they now hold the same as tenants in
Common and as such are entitled to
petition and to have the lots of each assigned
to him or her in severalty And they there
fore pray your worships for a decree of
partition ~ that five commissioners may be
appointed unconnected with your petitioners
either by affinity or causing unity whose
duty it shall be to divide said lands
among your petitioners as nearly Coequally
as possible and assign to each his share
in severalty. And they further being for
all other and further relief and all other~
this and further orders and decrees from
time to time to be made which the nature
and circumstances of their case
may seem to require and which to your
Honor shall deem just & proper. And
your petitioners as in duty bound will
ever pray
Ralph Gorrell
atto for petitioners