This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EVB.2ACI/921.1 Message Board Post: Transcribed from the Original Located in the State Archives, Raleigh, NC By Ben Askew,Jr and Owen Harrell State of North Carolina December Term 1802 Pasquotank County To the worshipful Justices of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid- The Petition of Christopher Cartwright and Mary his wife,William Snowden and Sarah his wife, Benjamin Foreman and Thomas Foreman ,humblt shewith,that Joseph Foreman late of the said county desceased died intestate seized and possessed a small tract of land lying and being in said County aforesaid containing about thirty acres which ------ to your petitioners Mary,Sarah Benjamin,Moses and four other children.Namely Clarkey,Robert,James and Nancy as Tenants in Common ,and your petitioners further show that they are desirous of obtaining a partition of the said land and humbly pray that ------ ----Esq., James White ,Nathan (?Obieman?),John (?---?) and Hugh Knox may be appointed to divide the same agreeably to the directions of the acts of the General Assembly in just care made and provided And your petitioners also show that the four youngest children namely Clarkey,Robert,James and Nancy are infants under age and have no guardian they therefore pray that some decent person may be appointed by the worshipful Court ----- that Justice is ------- to them in the partition of the said land And your partitioners as in ?duty ?-----------------?for the petitioners Hugh Knox appointed as guardian --- For the infants ?said?