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Maple Fork Sept 9th 1812
To the worshipful Court of Northampton this may Certify that I hereby relinquish my right of administration on the Estate of my Dec'd Husband John Pipkin & recommends to your worship Jesse R Cross the Adm'r
Susanna Pipkin
Wit: Isaac Pipkin
Record of Estates Found in Court Records of Northampton County, NC - Vol II, 1792-1816 by David B. Gammon
John Pipkin - Allotment of year's provisions and dower of the widow Susanna Pipkin, March Court, 1813. Inventory and account of sale by Jesse R. Cross administrator June Court, 1813. Negroes ordered divided December Court, 1813. Division of Negroes March Court, 1814. Estate ordered settled September Court, 1814. Susanna Pipkin filed a guardian account for Mary and Martha Pipkin (orphans of deceased) March Court, 1815. Jesse Darden and wife et al petitioned for a division of land June Court, 1816 and December Court, 1816.
John Peebles filed a guardian account for John and Henry Pipkin March Court, 1815.
Isaac and Edward Pipkin Estate, 1815
Northampton County June Court 1816
Ordered sheriff summons men to have John's lands surveyed and divided between the heirs at law.
September 15, 1816 lands surveyed and divided:
Lot No 1 drawn by Isaac Pipkin
Lot No 2 drawn by Thomas Pipkin
Lot No 3 drawn by John Pipkin
Lot No 4 drawn by Martha Pipkin
Lot No 5 drawn by Mary Pipkin
Lot No 6 drawn by Jesse Darden in right of wife Elizabeth
Lot No 7 drawn by Henry Pipkin
Boundaries: Urahaw Swamp, Bear Swamp, William Dardens line, Jesse Outland line, Rogers Branch, Walter Busters line, Great Branch, Sander Lassiters line, Henry Deberrys line, Rebecca Bowers house, Vaughans line, Elias Johnsons line, Nathan Brittons line, Nathaniel Burgers line, Corbeys Creek.
Northampton December Court 1816
Division of the lands of John Pipkin dec'd being returned into court it was decreed to be binding among the parties and ordered to be registered agreeable to law. Registered March 31, 1817
July 12, 1818 - State of North Carolina Northampton County Court of Equity
Jesse Darden & wife et als to the Court
Decree for sale of land on a Bill of Equity
Pursuant to a decree of the Honorable Court of Equity for the county aforesaid the clerk & master in Equity did advertise the lands and fishery to be sold on the 23rd day of February 1818 at the house of Isaac Pipkin in the county of Gates; and the four lots to be sold on the 24th of the same month, in the town of Murfreesborough (Hertford Co).
October 28, 1819 - State of North Carolina To the Honorable Judge of the Superior Court of Law & Equity for the county of Northampton
The bill of complaint of Jesse Darden & wife Elizabeth & John Pipkin & Isaac Pipkin & Thomas Pipkin by Jesse Cross his guardian & of Henry Pipkin by Jno Peebles his guardian humbly complaining sheweth unto your Honor
That your petitioners together with Mary & Martha Pipkin are entitled in fee to four lots in the town of Murfreesborough (Hertford County) known and distinguished in the plan of said town as No's 36, 74, 95 & 99 and to a fishery & twenty five acres of swamp land situated in the county of Gates & also to an undivided seventh part of several tracts of land situated in the county of Gates, the quantity & boundaries of all which will fully appear by reference to the proceedings of a petition filed in the county Court of Gates & by the deeds of said Isaac Pipkin which your orators and oratrices pray may be made part of this their bill = Your orators and oratrices suggested to your Honor that a division of said land cannot be effected without great loss & injury to your petitioners & therefore pray that a sale of said lands & lotts may be decreed upon such terms as to your Honor may seem advisable your petitioners further shows that Mary & Martha Pipkin have no guardian & your petitioners pray your Honor to appoint one on whom whose process may be served.