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Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.24), Box 24
Hoskins, Britton, 1829
To any lawful officer to execute and return. Whereas John Roughton constable has returned an execution bearing date 15 Jan 1829 against Richard Brickhouse & Briten Hoskins deceased in favor of Jesse Alexander, Amos Thorogood et al for the sum of eight dollars plus interest from 16 Oct 1824 and also the sum of one dollar and twenty cents old cost beside your fees for this service we therefore command you to levy upon the goods & chattels and for want of goods and chattels lands and tenements of the defendants sufficient to satisfy this execution interest and cost besides your fees for this service. Dated 21 Jan 1829. Levied on the lands of Richard Brickhouse on 24 Jan 1829 by John Roughton. No goods & chattels to be found.
Bond dated 27 Oct 1835 in the amount of five hundred dollars appointing Jno. Hoskins guardian to Benj., Joseph, Sylva & Elizabeth Hoskins orphans of Britton Hoskins deceased, Tully Wynne & Hez. G. Spruill securities.
To the Sheriff of Tyrrell County greeting - Whereas John Den lately in the Superior Court of Law held in and for the County of
Tyrrell and State of North Carolina at the courthouse in Columbia September Term 1848 by writ, and by judgement of the same court recovered
against Samuel Leigh his term then and yet to come, of and in a certain tract or parcel of land situate and lying in the County of Tyrrell,
and bounded and butted as follows, viz. adjoining the lands of Samuel Leigh and the lands of John Brickhouse & others being the land
whereon Britton Hoskins lived and died containing four hundred and fifty acres more or less with the appurtenances which John Hoskins,
Frances Thomas, Joseph Hoskins, Elizabeth Hoskins, Silvia Hoskins, Sally Hoskins and Benjamin Hoskins had demised to John Den on the
first day of December in the year 1845 to hold the same to the said John Den and his assigns from 1st day of December 1845 for & during
and unto the full end and term of twenty years thence next ensuing & to be fully completed & ended by virtue of which said demise the said
John Den entered into the said tenements with the appurtenances and was possessed thereof, until the said Samuel Leigh
afterwards viz. on the 2nd day of December 1845 with force & arms entered into the said tenements with appurtenances which the said John
Hoskins, Frances Thomas, Joseph Hoskins, Elizabeth Hoskins, Silvia Hoskins, Sally Hoskins and Benjamin Hoskins had demised to the said John
Den in manner and for the term aforesaid which was not then or is yet expired, and ejected the said John Den from his said farm
whereof the said Samuel Leigh is convicted as appears of record; therefore you are commanded, that without delay you cause the said
John Den to have possession of his said term yet to come of and in the tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances; and have you this writ before
the judge of the Superior Court of Law to be held for the County of Tyrrell, at the courthouse in Columbia on the first Monday in March next
and make appear in what manner you shall have executed the same and herein fail not.
Witness Saml. McClees clerk of the said court at Columbia the first Monday of September in the 73d year of our independence A. D.
1848.
Issued the 25th day of September 1848.
Note on flyleaf follows:
17th of November 1848. Then on the within named boundary I put the within named John Hoskins in possession of the same by goin on
the boundary & delivering (?) to said Hoskins a twig the growth & ? of the same. J. L. Jones Sheriff.
Transcriber's Notes:
Tyrrell County marriage bonds show the marriage of Fany Hoskins to Morgan J. Thomas on 27 Sep 1834, Tully Wynne security.
In the 1850 Tyrrell County census, John Hoskins is 39 and a head of household. Joseph Hoskins is 29, Elizabeth Hoskins is 22, Sylvia Hoskins is 24, Benjamin Hoskins is 34 and Sarah Hoskins is 36, all living in the household of Winneyford Hoskins age 58. This household also includes Frances Hoskins age 38, Caroline Thomas age 9 and Joseph Thomas age 7. Frances Hoskins must actually be Frances Thomas whose husband may be deceased.
See the 1855 will of Wineford Hoskins.
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