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State of North Carolina ) Court of Pleas and Quarter Sepinet (?)

Carteret County ) September Term AD 1832

To the Worshipful the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sepinet (?), for the County of Carteret.

The Petition of John F. Jones, and Joseph Fulford, William Fulford, and Mary H. (Hellen) Fulford & Enoch Fulford, the four last mentioned, infants, by their guardian, Isaac Hellen, respectfully then unto your Worships, that Enoch Fulford, dec., late of the County of Carteret, on the ____ (while blank here, he died the 24th) day of December A. D. 1824, departed this life intestate, leaving him remaining (?) his widow Ann, and your Petitioners, William, Joseph, Mary and Enoch, his children and heirs at law. Your Petitioners further shew unto your Worships that administration of all and singular the goods & chattels of him the said Enoch Fulford (looks like) pr. na granted, at the _____ (left blank by the clerk) term A. D. ____ (left blank by the clerk) of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sepins (sic) for the County of Carteret, to his widow Ann, and that at the term AD of said court Isaac Hellen, has appointed guardian to your petitioners, Joseph, William, Mary & Enoch; your Petitioners, further shew unto your Worships that Robert Thomas of the County of Carteret, on the 11th day of Dec. AD 1828, intermarried with Ann the widow of the said Enoch Fulford dec’d. Yon Petitioners further shew unto your Worships, that the said Enoch Fulford, died poffed (possessed ?) of the following Negros, vis. Jude, Nancy, Jno, Jack, Fanny, & Rachel & their -----, which said Negros descended and came to your Petitioners Joseph, William, Mary, Enoch, and Ann the widow of Enoch Fulford dec’d but now the wife of the said Robert Thomas decd. a tenant in common. Yon Petitioners further shew unto your Worships that they are anxious and deserve to have their respective shares or portions of the said Negros allotted and set apart to them in Severalty. Yon Petitioners therefore pray your Worships that if a division of the said Negros can be effected without a sale thereof that you thereunto (?) appoint ---------(word illegible) to effect the same, if not that the said Negros may be sold for a division according to the acts of Afembly (assembly) in such case made & provided & that your Worships thereunto (?) grant such other & further relief by the nature of their case may require & to your Worships may deem such, and your Petitioners will ever pray, (symbol for et cetera or and so forth) .

/s/ James W. Bryan (looks like) Jol pro petubby (?)

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NOTE: Enoch Fulford, who died Sept. 24, 1824, was one of three children born to Joseph and Hannah Ward Fulford. His other siblings were Keziah Fulford (Hellen) and Sarah "Sally" Fulford.

Joseph Fulford, the oldest of the four children of Enoch and Ann Martin Fulford, moved to New Bern NC. After his marriage to Sarah Frances HYMAN, he sent for his younger siblings, Enoch (Jr.) and William Clarence. Enoch died about six months after he moved to New Bern of "brain fever." William Clarence worked as a clerk in New Bern, never married, and died at around age 40. Both are buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery on the Hyman-Fulford family plot. The surviving daughter, Mary Hellen Fulford, has yet to be discovered.

Joseph Fulford and his wife, Sarah, had fourteen children, of which six survived to adulthood: Mary Ann, Eugenia Elizabeth, Sarah Josephine "Jo," and Emma Catherine, and Francis Joseph "Frank" and Walter Fulford. Walter Fulford was my grandfather (1860-1944). Eugenia Elizabeth married William Bardwell Bogart; she died after their second son was born. He married Mary Ann, and they moved to Greensboro NC. Sisters Sarah and Emma Catherine never married and they also lived with Mary Ann and William Bogart in Greensboro. Emma Catherine, however, did live long enough to witness my father’s christening in Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern NC in December 1890.

submitted by Florence Fulford Moore