An undated list, without a heading or signature, of notes and accounts that someone owed: notes to “the Clerk” (the reading is not certain), David Chapman, Osborn Clark, S. Street and Bryan Dawson, accounts of Bryan Dawson, William Blackledge, Jacob Gooding, “the printers” and Moore, and sums to Hancock and H. Whitford. “The printers” were probably the New Bern newspaper, which charged for printing legal notices such as an administrator’s notice to creditors.
List of notes and accounts owed, probably by the estate of John Fornes – undated, about 1840
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
1 Note for the Clerk [?] 20 Dollars
1 Note to david Chapman 20. dollars
1 Note osbern [Osborn] Clark to [?] 7 dollars
1 Note to S. Street 6 dollars to pay
1 Note to Bryan Dawson 13 dollars
1 accompt [account] of Bryan dawsons 13 dollars
1 accompt of Wm. Blacklige [Blackledge] 12 dollars
1 accompt of Jacob goodens [Gooding’s] 24 dollars
1 accompt of the printers 6 dollars
moores accompt 5 dollars
to hand Cock [Hancock] 78 Dollars
to H. Whitford 25.50
[The rest of the page is blank.]
About the original
The paper is filed among the John Fornes estate papers, and David Chapman and Osborn Clark were both buyers at the Fornes sales of 1840 and 1842, so this is most likely a list of debts the Fornes estate had to pay, drawn up by James Roach as administrator. It does not say so, however, and the date is a guess from the handwriting and the people named.
Some names are spelled as they sounded (“Blacklige” for Blackledge, “goodens” for Gooding’s, “hand Cock” for Hancock). The first line’s “Clerk” could also be read “Clach,” and the small word after “Clark” in the third line may be “to” or “&.”
Source: List of notes and accounts owed, probably by the estate of John Fornes. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder b (Inventories, Wills, and Estates, 1783–1868). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fb.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View in ECU Digital Collections: 35991.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
