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Tyrrell County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
October Session 1798
Ordered that Isaac Norman have leave of administration on the estate of Joseph Norman deceased & give bond & security in the sum of 500 pounds Jeremiah Phelps & Miles Spruill securities.
Ordered that Isaac Norman administrator of the estate of Joseph Norman Senr. deceased have leave to sell the perishable part of the estate of said deceased and make return to next court.
January Session 1799
Isaac Norman administrator of Joseph Norman Senr. deceased returns in open court on oath an inventory of the estate of said deceased ordered filed.
Also the account of the estate of Joseph Norman Junr. deceased audited by Charles Spruill Joseph Phelps & Henry Norman Esquires who find a balance due the administrator of 12 pounds, 9 shillings & 2 pence as per returns filed. {This entry immediately follows the preceding entry above.}
Isaac Norman administrator of Joseph Norman returns in open court an account of sales of said deceased amounting to 155 pounds, 16 shillings & 11 pence ordered filed.
October Session 1801
Ordered that Joseph Phelps Asa Phelps Benjamin Spruill Esqrs. audite settle and divide the estate of Joseph Norman deceased and make return to the next court.
January Session 1801
The audited accounts and division of the estate of Joseph Norman deceased was returned in court by Isaac Norman and
find a ballance due the heirs {unreadable} for division of 88 pounds & 2 shillings which was divided in the following manner to wit:
Mary Norman widdow her part 17 pounds, 12 shillings & 3 pence
Isaac Norman his part 17 pounds, 12 shillings & 3 pence
Myles Spruill his part 17 pounds, 12 shillings & 3 pence
John Norman deceased part 17 pounds, 12 shillings & 3 pence
Sally Norman her part 17 pounds, 12 shillings & 3 pence
given under our hands & seal the 23d day of January 1802 - a true copy filed Asa Phelps Benjn. Spruill Jos. Phelps Esqr.
North Carolina Archives
Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.36), Box 36
Norman, Joseph Senr., 1792
Summons dated 24 Aug 1799 and issued 21 Oct 1799 for Evan Skinner planter to appear at court on the fourth Monday in October next to answer unto Isaac Norman administrator of Joseph Norman in a plea of trespass to his damage 50 pounds.
Summons dated 28 Oct 1799 for James Fruman & Nehemiah Norman to appear at court on the fourth Monday in January next to testify on behalf of Evan Skinner in a suit in which Isaac Norman is plaintiff and Evan Skinner is defendant. A. Phelps also attended as a winess for the plaintiff.
Summons directed to the Sheriff of Washington County dated 30 Apr 1800 for William Davenport son of James Davenport deceased to appear at the next court to testify on behalf of Evan Skinner in a suit in which Isaac Norman administrator of Jos. Norman is plaintiff and Evan Skinner is defendant.
Travel voucher for the attendance of John Norman Senr. at the October 1800 term of court.
Execution dated 28 Apr 1801 and issued 8 May 1801 against the goods & chattels, lands & tenements of Evan Skinner for eight pounds, eleven shillings & ten and one half pence which Isaac Norman administrator of Jos. Norman deceased recovered from him in a suit.
Execution dated 30 Jul 1801 and issued 11 Aug 1801 against the goods & chattels, lands & tenements of Isaac Norman administrator of Joseph Norman deceased for seventeen pounds, eleven shillings & five pence of which the said Isaac Norman is convicted. A previous execution against 4 beds and furniture was returned as no sale for want of bidders.
Summons dated 27 Oct 1801 and issued 15 Jan 1802 for Hezekiah Norman to appear in court on the fourth Monday in January next and testify on behalf of Isaac Norman in a suit in which Isaac Norman is plainfiff and Josiah Powers is defendant.
Subpoena dated 27 Oct 1801 and issued 15 Jan 1802 for Josiah Powers, Peter Marriner Senr. & Peter Marriner Junr. to appear at court on the fourth Monday in January next to answer unto Isaac Norman administrator of Joseph Norman deceased in a plea of debt in the amount of 30 pounds and damages of 20 pounds.
Transcriber's Notes:
Tyrrell County marriage bonds show the marriage of Miles Spruill to ------ Norman on 3 Jan 1787, William Spruill security.
The 1790 census of Tyrrell County shows households for both Joseph Norman Junr. & Joseph Norman Senr. Neither appear in the 1800 census. The estate file of Joseph Norman Senr. most likely contains estate papers for both men, Joseph Norman Junr. having died circa 1792 and Joseph Norman Senr. circa 1799.
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