Albemarle County NcArchives Court.....John Bush, Mary Bush To 1721 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Maarbjerg http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006256 November 6, 2008, 4:56 pm Source: Chowan County Registrar's Office Book F1 Pg 158-162 Written: 1721 Various Land Transactions - 1720-1721 John & Mary Bush Chowan Precinct, Albemarle County mpm transcription Power of Attorney - Mary Bush to John Falconer - 26 May 1721 North Carolina Ps Know all men by these presents that I Mary Bush the wife of John Bush planter of the precinct of Chowan at Wickacone now dwelling doo hereby these presents make ordain constitute & appoint my true trusty & beloved friend John Falconer of the precinct & province aforesaid to be my true & lawfull attorney in my stead & behalfe with as full power as if I myself were there present to acknowledge my right of Dower of the one half of a Tract of Land containing 520 acres of land by patent lying upon Barbicue Swamp & Joyning on Bryary Branch sold by my husband John Bush as aforesaid unto Mr Edward Bryant (without any manner of compulsion but of my own free will.) - I doe acknowledge my right of Dower as aforesaid of the Land abovesaid & to the person abovementioned, by my Attorney, abovenamed as witness my hand & Seal this 26th day of May 1721. Mary (M) Bush Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us Francis Macklendin Thomas (T) Macklendin Att a Court held for Chowan precinct at the Court house in Edenton the 18th day of July 1721 - The within power of attorney from Mary Bush to John Falconer was proved by the Oath of Thomas Macklendin one of the evidences thereto & a motion is ordered to be recorded & it is recorded. Test. Thomas Henman, Clk Cur. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/albemarle/court/johnbush532wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb