Bladen County NcArchives Court.....Miller, Ralph 1783 ************************************************ 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: Connie Ardrey n/a February 24, 2009, 6:57 am Source: Colonial Records Written: 1783 Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1783 April 18, 1783 - May 17, 1783 Volume 24, Pages 475 - 542 CHAPTER XLII. An Act for vesting the title of certain lands herein mentioned, in Ralph Miller, his heirs and assigns. Whereas, it hath been made appear to the satisfaction of the General Assembly, by sundry affidavits, &c., exhibited by Ralph Miller, that the register's office of Bladen county hath been burnt wherein the said Miller's deeds were registered, and that the house of the said Ralph Miller hath been also burnt by accident, and his said deeds for certain lands, to-wit: Four hundred and twenty acres situate in Bladen county, on the south side of the Northwest River, joining the lands of John Clayton, beginning at a black oak on the river, running thence by a line of marked trees south forty-five degrees west four hundred and fifty poles to a post oak, thence south forty-five degrees east one hundred and eighty poles to a small pine, thence north forty-five degrees east to the river, thence up said river to the first station; from which accident of the fire the said Ralph Miller hath no legal assurance for the before recited lands; for remedy whereof, Be it therefore Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Ralph Miller be, and he is hereby invested with absolute right in fee simple, of and to the before recited tract or parcel of land, containing four hundred and twenty acres aforesaid, in as full and ample manner as he would have been if the said deeds and records had never been burnt or destroyed. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bladen/court/miller705nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb