Carteret County NcArchives Court.....Shakelford, John 1749
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1749

Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
October 02, 1749 - October 18, 1749
Volume 04, Pages 961-971

At a Council held at New Bern

Read the Petition of James Shakelford setting forth that John Shakelford the 
Petitioners Father on or about the 26th of October 1726 obtained from the late 
Lords proprietors a Patent for two hundred and eighty acres of Land Scituate on 
the South side of Neuse River on the head of Clubfoots Creek to which the 
Petitioner, his Father dying Intestate, as eldest son and heir at Law is justly 
Entitled. That the late Arthur Mabson in his life time, that is to say, about 
Thirteen years ago obtained a Warrant for a Tract of Land which he surveyed round 
the Lands of the Petitioner aforesaid and included the whole thereof in his 
Survey and for which he obtained a Patent; And the Petitioner being apprehensive 
that some of his Station Trees may have been burnt, cut down or otherwise 
distroyed he humbly prays a Resurvey both of his own and the said Mabsons Land 
which is Granted and Ordered that the Surveyor General do accordingly resurvey 
the same and make report thereof to this Board at their next sitting.


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