Caswell County North Carolina Will Books 1843-1868
Guardian Accounts 1848-1868
Katharine Kerr Kendall
1986
[pg 3][Book P 1843-1844; January Court 1844]
48 Sales property of Joshua Hightower to:
Wm. G. Moore Mitchell Currie John K. Brooks John Morton
Lealan Jacobs James Currie Addison Morgan Rainey Currie
Maj. James Currie Thomas W. Owen Hiram Brooks Green Woods
William Dameron Lea Matlock Anderson Brummitt Wm. Hightower
Joshua Hightower (son of Wm.) John Hightower Bluford Cooper
John H. Fuller Daniel Jackson Thomas Martin Abner Stanfield
John Mitchell James Crossett Robert Love Thomas Turn(er)?
Martha E. Hightower Wm. S. Hightower Joseph C. Dameron Jonathon Nelson
Nathan Oakley Abner Wisdom Willie Turner Sarah L. Hightower
Joshua Hightower
[pg 47][Book Q 1851; April Court 1851]
504 Inv and acct of sales of Williamson Dameron decd sold by James H. Dameron adm
on 20 & 21 Jan 1851. Sales to:
John W. Roan William Matlock Byrd Paylor Wm. H. Parr
B Cooper John L. Richmond Yearby Warren William Long
Archibald Paine William Cooper Thomas M. Johnson Thomas Covington
Colly W. Lunsford Nathan Oakley Joseph Hooper Elijah Morton
Chesley Starks John Peterson Ellis Dameron Elijah Hester
Thomas W. Chandler John Dameron Solomon Whitlow Melon Webster
Micajah Pleasant Peyton Lunsford Lea Matlock Alfred M. Nash
Wm. P. Chambers James Broach Ezekiel Broach Abner Wisdom
the widow et al.
[pg 68][Book R 1854; Oct Court 1854]
200 Abner Wisdom - Will - w. 31 Jan 1854. All property to be sold and divided as
follows: son William Wisdom $20; grandson James Wisdom son of son William
Wisdom a choice of horses. Balance equal to all children to wit: Nancy Warren,
Sally Roberts, Polly Warren, Caty Vezley, Tavnor Wisdom, William Wisdom's
children to have one share with rest of children; Byrd Wisdom decd by his
children to have one share, Jessey Wisdom decd and his children have one share.
Exec: James Currie. Wit: Samuel H. Smith, Epps Moore.
Admitted to probate.
[pg 69][Book R 1854-55; January Court 1855]
239-241 Inv property of estate of Abner Wisdom taken by William Fuller adm and sales
of property sold 25 Oct 1854 to:
Samuel H. Smith John Peterson Wm. Stephens Isaac R. Currie
Iverson L. Oliver Wm. Chandler Edward M. Horn A.S.G. Woods
Dudley Y. Moore John Flintoff John Pool Wm. Whitlow
Colly W. Lunsford Nathaniel Oakley James Evans Thos. P. Oakley (land)
Gallatin Fuller Davis Pittard John Turner Owen Cook
M.C.A. Webster John H. Fuller Ambrose Nelson Jas McMullin Jr.
George T. Richmond Joshua Hightower James Hightower John Fuqua
[pg 71][Book R 1855]
252 List of insolvents of Caswell County for 1849-52 returned by Franklin A. Wiley,
sheriff, to July Term 1854. (Surnames are first)(Most listed for poll tax)
(Gloucester District) Wisdom Wm. 1850 removed
[pg 79][Book R 1855-56; October Court 1855]
348 William Fuller adm of Abner Wisdom decd acct current, Payments to E.G. Mitchell,
Currie & McKee, Stephen T. Richmond, George Richmond, Joseph Langley, Smith
Constable, Iverson G. Warren, Jackson Nelson, John C. Smith, Rev. Jno Stadler
Samuel P. Hill atty, et al. Special legacy to William Wisdom.
[pg 130][Book S 1862-63; January Court 1863]
583 Inv estate of Joseph Langley decd by F.A. Wiley exec taken 1 Oct 1862.
In Confederate and Bank Notes $4200; in Gold #2287; in Silver $1340.
Bonds on Colley W. Lunsford and Walter H. Lunsford, David Richmond and Adderson
Morgan, Jefferson Whitfield and A. Loftis, John d. Long and Thos Covington,
J.K. Kea, I.& M. Oliver, John Richmond and S.T. Richmond, Joseph E. Moore,
Jno T. Pool, James Y. Richmond and Thos Martin, E.W. Owen & Dr. N.M. Roan,
et al. Doubtful notes on James O. Payne (1853), Wm. Wisdom (due 1840),
W.A. Lea (1857), others dating to 1842's; on Lawrence Van Hook (1834), T.W.
Owen (1846), James Galleher (1844).