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RICHMOND COUNTY, NC ESTATES RECORD BOOKS



Howard & Myrtle Bridges - 2010
I have completed my transcriptions of the 69 boxes of unbound original Richmond County Estate papers at NC State Archives. In order to make these books available at a reasonable cost it was necessary to divide the records into three volumes. Each has over 500 pages with an index of approximately 25,000 names.

All three books contain meticulously selected and transcribed records which allow their original writers to "talk to us" in their own words. These pages will come alive with wills, petitions of all kinds, letters, administrators bonds, guardians bonds, and very informative depositions to be used in court trials. There are lots of graphics taken from letterheads, receipts, etc. Scanned images of almost all legible signatures appearing in the original document have been inserted into the appropriate transcribed record. Also, there are lots of land descriptions showing locations and to whom the land was given.

I have carefully and tediously searched each file for the names of slaves and recorded all available information. Files containing these valuable records are indicated with a special symbol in the Table of Contents of every book.




If you want to know if there was an estate settlement record found for your ancestor, check the TABLE of CONTENTS. If you don't find him there, check the indices. There is often plenty of information concerning a person, even though there was no estate settlement found in Richmond County.

Let's talk about John L. Fairley/Fairly as an example of how the books work together to reveal some of his activities in Richmond County, NC:

In ESTATE BOOK I beginning on page 407 you will find the estate settlement records of John L. Fairley/Fairly:

Fact 1: John L. Fairly/Fairley died in August 1862 leaving his wife Margaret and children: Ann Fairly; Eliza Jane, the wife of Daniel M. McLaurin; Mary Fairly, Kate Fairly, Margaret Fairly, Angus Fairly, Frances Fairly and Eugenie Fairly.

Fact 2: He left a considerable personal estate.

Fact 3: Thomas Gibson took letters of administration according to law on Fairley's estate in October 1862.

Fact 4: That among the effects of said estate were forty-one negro slaves (This record shows names and ages of the slaves.)

Fact 5: That Mary Fairly, Kate Fairly, Margaret Fairly, Angus Fairly, Frances Fairly & Eugenie Fairly are infants of tender years (under the age of 21)

Fact 6: That John L. Fairley at the time of his death, claimed five hundred acres of land in Richmond County on Leith and Little Creeks, joining lands of John Stalker, D. A. Patterson's Laurel Hill Place, and lands of William Gilchrist, and that the estimated value of the same is about one hundred and fifty dollars and an undivided interest in 50 or 60 acres of land in Richmond County on Drowning Creek, joining the lands of Jos. Graham, James McBryde, and the heirs of Rosa Ann McLean, and that the estimated value of the same, as he is advised and believes, is about $50.

Fact 7: By June 1878 Mary Jane, has intermarried with Milton McIntyre and resides in Richmond County. Catherine has intermarried with Colin Stewart, and resides in the State of Texas, and Angus Fairley resides in Richmond County and is now of full age; and Euphemia Fairley and James T. McLaurin who are minors reside in Richmond County.

Fact 8: By December 1889 Angus Fairley and Mary Jane McIntyre, children of John L. Fairley, have died.

Fact 9: That Jas. T. McLaurin is the only child of John L. Fairley's deceased daughter Eliza, who intermarried with D. M. McLaurin is also dead, and that Colin Stewart intermarried with John's daughter Catherine who died leaving her surviving Virginia P. Stewart and Maggie M. Stewart, Sallie E. Stewart, Daniel Stewart, Ida M. Stewart and Kate F. Stewart her children, now residing with their father, Colin Stewart, at Goldthwaite, Texas, [Mills County] and that the last five are minors and that his said children and grandchildren representing their said deceased parents, are the only surviving heirs at law of the said John L. Fairley.

ESTATE BOOK II, page 101, estate settlement of John Leach in 1861:
Fact 1: That on January 21st, 1861 John L. Fairley and others have filed a petition "praying for the alteration of the Turnpike Road where it passes over the lands of Mr. John Archibald Leach and Florah Graham Leach, minor heirs of John Leach deceased, the lands of Mary Leach and the lands of John Stalker. We shall move the Court for said alterations so as to turn the road to the place where it originally ran".

Page 394, estate settlement of John McLean:

Fact 2: That John L. Fairly, Administrator on the estate of John McLean, sent out his Writ of Replevin returnable to Spring Term 1849 of the Superior Court of Law for Richmond County against the said Nancy McLean for the Negro slaves Betsey and child and Sandy.

ESTATE BOOK III, beginning on page 5, estate settlement of D. W. Middleton in 1893:
Fact 1: John L. Fairley's name appears in the lengthy deposition of J. T. Roper, 74 years of age and a resident of Laurinburg, showing that there was a dispute over land that may have belonged to the deceased Fairley.

Page 112, estate record of Alexander Patterson in 1837:
Fact 2: John L. Fairley was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Richmond in 1837.

Page 143, estate settlement of John Pearson in 1858:
Fact 3: John L. Fairly was the guardian of Tryam Pearson minor child of John G. Pearson.



Cost per book: $40.00 + $5 shipping. N.C. Residents add $2.70 tax.
Cost per 3-book set: $100.00 + $10 shipping. N.C. Residents add $6.75 tax.

Thank you for your interest!

Questions welcomed. Email Myrtle here.

Browse the INDEX of BOOK I of ESTATE RECORDS 1772 - 1933 RICHMOND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA —— ADAMS - HARBERT     ABC  DEFG  HIJKL  M  Mc  NOPQRS  TUVWXYZ

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Browse the INDEX of BOOK II of ESTATE RECORDS 1772 - 1933 RICHMOND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA —— HARDY - MEEKINS     ABC  DEFG  HIJKL  M  Mc  NOPQRS  TUVWYZ

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Browse the INDEX of BOOK III of ESTATE RECORDS 1772 - 1933 RICHMOND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA —— MEDLOCK - YOE     ABC  DEFG  HIJKL  M  Mc  NOPQRS  TUVWY

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