CA625

Edgecombe Co., NC Deed Book 18
(C. Avis Catalog entry #625)

Division of Gray Little's estate

Deed Book 18, page 337

recorded Aug Ct 1823 

by court order commissioners divide the real estate of Maj. Gray Little, dec'd among the heirs at law, there being nine heirs and a total evaluation of $17,208.99 and each heir to receive $1912.11; lot $1 to Lydia Price, 245 acres of the upper end of the river tract, valued at $1960 and to pay to lot #5 $47.89; lot #2 to Gray Little, 245 acres being the middle part of the river tract valued at $1960 and to pay $47.89 to lot # 5; lot #3 to Benjamin Manning, 261 acres of the lower end of the river tract valued at $1960 and to pay lot #5 $42.83, lot #6 $3.22 and lot #7 $1.84; lot #4 to Penina Little 267 3/4 acres of the upper end of the home tract valued at $1606.50, 100 acres of the Rose Piney Wood tract valued at $100, 160 acres of the Wilson Tract valued at $160 and 40 acres of the Deal tract valued at $93.50 and to pay to lot #6 $47.89; lot #5 to Seth Little 159 acres of the Mansion house tract valued at $1431, 159 acres of the Causey Tract valued at $$342.50, which with money paid from other lots equals $1912.11; lot #6 to William Little 237 1/4 acres of the lower end of the home tract valued at $1423.50, 175 acres of the Polly Cherry tract valued at $$437.50 which with money received from other lots equals $1912.11; lot #7 to Charles Wilkinson's children 323 acres of the Thigpen & Bell tracts valued at $1292, 286 acres of the Big Swamp tract valued at $$429 and 79 acres of the Deal tract valued at $118.50 which with money received from other lots equals $1912.11; lot #8 to Elijah Manning 300 acres of the undivided Toisnot Swamp tract valued at $1800 and 174 acres of the Shellbank tract valued at $174 which with money received from other lots equals $1912.11; lot #9 to Blake Little 300 acres being the other half of the Toisnot Swamp tract valued at $1800, 74 acres of the New Swamp tract valued at $111 and the lot in Stantonsburg valued at $10 and to pay to lot #7 $8.89, 

signed Robt. Joyner, (Solo Pender), J.R. Lloyd, David Dancy.