Records for Insolvent Debtors in Wake County - individuals unable to pay their debts were abstracted from the box of “Wake County “Insolvent Debtors 1800-1837 (broken series).”
The box is located at the N.C. State Archives’ search room, with call number CR 099.914.11.
This series originally appeared in an older version of the WCGS newletter and was republished in the Journal Volume 18 Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2008) to enable access for researchers. This excerpt and additional information is available in our archived Journal content which is currently available to all.
From the folder “Insolvent debtors 1800, 1803,” there is a document showing the following abstracted
information:
“… We or either of us promise to pay Thomas Taylor Guardian to James Ridley … Seventy nine Dollars
and Twenty Cents with Interest from the date, It being for value of him rec’d …” Dated 18 March 1800.
Witness Nicholas Tompson?
D. Hinton Benj. Haver? (House?)
Rubin N? (his mark) Jackson
The back of this document says “Thomas Taylor vs Nicholas Thompson Guard. Note.” and “Nicholas
Thompson To James Ridley Note 79.20 cents.”
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Another document in that folder shows that Burwell Evans swears he has no land, money, stock or
estate, real or personal, in his possession … “of the value of the debt, with which I am charged in
Execution…”
He also swears that he has not directly or indirectly sold or disposed of land, money, goods, stocks,
debts, securities, contracts or estate (as a method of receiving any profit or of defrauding any creditor or
creditors to whom he is indebted).
Burwell (his mark, a “B”) Evans
Sworn in Wake County before Wm. Armstrong? on April 22, 1803.
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| A debtor in Fleet Street Prison, London by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. First half of the 19th century. Source |
Many more names appear in this transcription. There are four pages of abstracts for this collection and nine pages of debtors transcribed and listed by township for the year 1877.
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