A short order of the Craven County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, May Term 1840, giving James Roach, administrator of the estate of John Fornes, permission to sell the “perishable” estate. Perishable property meant livestock, crops, household goods and other personal property that could spoil, die or lose value, as opposed to land. Selling it at public auction was the usual next step after an administrator returned an inventory.
Craven County Court order allowing James Roach, administrator of John Fornes, to sell the perishable estate – May Term 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.
Craven County Court
May Term A.D. 1840
Ordered that James Roach Administrator of John Fornes decd. have leave to Sell the perishable estate of his intestate [the person who died without a will]
Attest
J. G. Stanly Clk [Clerk]
About the original
John Fornes died without a will (an “intestate”), and James Roach was appointed to settle his affairs. The clerk who signed the order is J. G. Stanly. Other bills against the Fornes estate in this folder were sworn before Alderson Ellison, J.P., in 1840 and 1841.
Source: Craven County Court order allowing James Roach, administrator of John Fornes, to sell the perishable estate. 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: 35975.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
