North Carolina
Cumb County
Whereas Gilbert McCarter late of the county aforesaid did on the evening of the third Instant most 
inhumanely Murder his Wife and has made his Escape privately from Justice –
These [sic] are in his Majesty's Name to authorize and Impower You to Imprefs Man and Horses to Aid 
and Afsist in taking the said McCarty and this shall be your Warrant Given under Our hand this 5th 
day of August 1765.
Robert Mackie
Thomas Burnside

To the Sheriff of Cumberland



State of North Carolina
Cumberland County

Pursuant to a commifsion to [torn] J[torn] Hay and John Beck Esquires two of the Justices of the Peace of 
said county aforesaid, Directed [torn] from the Superior Court of Equity for the District of Fayetteville, 
in a Suit in Said Court now depending wherein John Eccles & others are complainants and Robert Park & others 
are defendants – Sarah Dyer appeared at the Court House in Fayetteville on Monday the fourteenth day of 
September 1801 – agreeably to notice hereunto annexed and the service thereof acknowledged by the defendants 
– Said Sarah Dyer being duly sworn made the following answers to Interoggatories put to her by the 
Complainant in the above mentioned Cause ––

Question– Are you or are you not acquainted with the Lots described in Complainants Bo[torn]
Answer– I am well acquainted with them all
Question– Were those Lots formerly the Property of James Dyer & Richard Carrol
Answer– They were
Question– Do you know of there being a [torn] of Lands held jointly between [torn] said James Dyer & 
Richard Carrol
Answer– I know there was a division long b[torn] any Title claimed by William Park the Father of the 
present Defendant
Questn– When that Division was made do you know what part of the said Lots were taken by James Dyer & 
what part by Richard Carrol
Ansr– The part on both sides & adjoining the Creek on the North Side of the Road were held by said 
James Dyer including the Tanyard & other improvements under that Division & pursuant to said agreement 
Richard Carrol pofsefsed himself of that part of the Lots on the South side of the Road formerly called 
old Street and now Bow [or Bone?] Street & lived thereon 
Questn– Did James Dyer after this Division make any improvements on his part of said Lots
Ansr– He did build a House and Kitchen
Questn– Was this property pofsefsed by said James Dyer sold by him to any person & to whom
Ansr– It was sold to Col. Edmund Fanning by James Dyer
Questn– Did you join in the deed of conveyance then made & executed by your Husband the said James to 
the said Fanning
Ansr– I did
Questn– Did your Husband to your knowledge ever execute any deed to any other person than to said Fanning 
for the aforesaid premises
Ansr– Not to my knowledge – & [torn] [torn] sure I never joined in executing [torn] other conveyance for 
said property
Questn– Did William Park father of the Defendant Robert, ever claim or any other person under him, any part 
of the premises so pofsefsed by James Dyer & sold by him [torn] Edmund Fanning
Ansr– He never Did – untill later I understood that a suit was brought by the present Defendant as heir 
of William Park against the Heirs of Robert Cochran Deceased
Questn– At the time of this Division of t[torn] Lands or Lots was Carrol satis[torn]  [torn] [torn] the 
portion the [torn] to him allotted – or did he [torn] claim any other part of the property allotted to 
James Dyer under [torn] said Division
Ansr– Carrol was satisfied & I never [torn] of his claiming any part of what was allotted to James Dyer 
after the Division took place
Questn– Do you know from whom James [torn] purchased the property mentioned in the complainants Bill
Ansr– From John Newberry
Questn– From the time of the Division of James Dyer and Richard Carrol, who [torn] been in pofsefsion of 
the part o[torn] the premises allotted to said D[torn] until the present day
Ansr– James Dyer, Edmund Fanning Robert Cochran, Robert Cochrans Heirs and the present Complainant John Eccles 
Questn– Do you know at what time the copartnership between James Dyer & Richard Carrol was Difsolved
Ansr– As to the exact time I cannot say, but am certain it was at or before the time of the Division of 
the Lots which took place before I was married & to the best of my remembrance I was married in the year 
One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty Two

Sarah Dyer

Sworn to and signed
[torn] day and at the place
[torn]said in our presence

John Hay J.P.
M[?] Burk J.P.