HALIFAX COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA DEED BOOK
29 PAGE 303 November Session 1835.
To the Worshipful,
the Justices of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions
for the County aforesaid. The petition of HENRY APPLEWHITE, THOMAN GODWIN & wife formerly ELIZABETH APPLEWHITE & of JOSEPHINE & NAPOLEON
JOSSEY infants of HENRY JOSSEY and SARAH his wife formerly SARAH APPLEWHITE who
petitioned by THOMAS GODWIN their aunt friend & Guardian
in this behalf showeth unto your Worships that they are tenants in common in
their several tracts of land lying in Halifax County adjoining the lands of
JESSE POWELL, WILBER HIGGS, ROBERT WHITAKER & Others in the
following proportions, to make your petitioner HENRY APPLEWHITE is entitled to One Third your petitioner THOMAS GODWIN
& wife ELIZABETH to One Third, and your petitioners JOSEPHINE & NAPOLEON to One Sixth each. They pray your Worships that Commissioners
be appointed to divide the lands aforesaid & allot to your
petitioners their several shares & grant unto your
petitioners such other witness which their case may require & as in duty bound they will ever Pray.
S. WHITAKER for
petitioners Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions. November
Term 1835
Ordered by the Court
that JESSE POWELL, ROBERT WHITAKER, WILBER HIGGS, THOMAS B WHITEHEAD, T.T.
BRANTLEY, any three to act be appointed Commissioners to divide the lands named
in the foregoing petitioners & to allot to each petitioners
the part prayed for. Report to next Court.
Test
T.H. SIMMONS D.C.
Pursuant to an
Order of Court we the undersigned Commissioners have proceeded to divide the
lands belonging to ELISHA APPLEWHTE dec’d as follows. Lot No 1, being the House
tract in Pine Woods containing 76 acres drawn by NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE JOSSEY and pays Lot No 2&3 Seven Dollars &
eighty Three Cents each. Lot No 2 drawn by THOMAS GODWIN containing 30 acres
being the House lot at Sandy Neck & pays Lot No 3 Thirty
Dollars. Lot No 3 drawn by HENRY APPLEWHTE containing 20 acres __ from Lot No
2, Thirty Dollars. The following are the course & distance of the House
tract in Pine Woods. Beginning at a large Pine, JESSE POWELL'S comer, then S 14
W 46 poles to a Small Pine, then S 71 E 91 poles to a Stake, then N 47 E 20
poles to a Pine, JOHN DAVIS corner, then N 3 W 58 poles to a Branch, then N 76
E 40 poles to the edge of the Creek, then up the said Creek 117 poles to a
comer in Pocoson Branch, then S 3 E 60 poles to a Pine, then S 81 w 120 poles to the
Three Pines, JESSE POWELL'S line and thence to the beginning. Lot No 2.
Beginning at a Sassafras S 62 W 4 poles to a Stake, then S 43 E 113 poles to a
Stake, then N 28 E 61 poles to a Comer Sourwood. then N 56 W 85 poles to the
beginning. Lot No 3. Beginning at a Stake, then S 43 E 70 poles to the main run
Spring Branch, thence up Spring Branch 69 poles to the mouth of the Branch,
then N 42 W 54 poles to the Corner Sourwood, then S 28 W to the beginning.
Given under our hands &
seals this 4th February 1836.
WILBER HIGGS
ROBERT WHITAKER
TOMAS B WHITEHEAD