Monday, January 24, 2011

Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869, Letter from Jonathan Worth, December 1, 1855, in The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, vol. 1. Hamilton, Joseph Grégorie de Roulhac, ed., Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, 1909, pp. 656. S1590-D003 [Bibliographic Details] [12-1-1855] WorthJ:L1590-3

Letter from Jonathan Worth, December 1, 1855

Asheboro, N. C., Dec. 1st, 1855.
Yours of the 20th ult. is just received. The gentlemen of the bar practicing in this county, with their Post Office annexed, find below:
Geo. C. Mendenhall, Wm. P. Mendenhall, Jamestown, Guilford Co., N. C.
John A. Gilmer, Ralph Gorrell, Robt. P. Dick, James T. Morehead, Greensboro, N. C.
J. M. Leach, James Long, Lexington, N. C.
Wm. W. Long, Long's Mill, Randolph County, N. C.
D. W. C. Johnson, Eden, Randolph County, N. C.
Jonathan Worth (residing in Randolph County), James M. A. Drake, R. H. Brown, Asheboro, N. C.
J. J. Jackson, Pittsboro, N. C.
The undersigned and his son-in-law, J. J. Jackson, practice in Co-partnership in the counties of Randolph, Chatham, Moore and Harnett. There is no other partnership among the members of the bar here so far as I know. I understand your inquiry as to partnerships to apply to legal and not mercantile co-partnerships.