Chatham County NcArchives Court.....Wilcox - Petition, John 1781
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1781

Petition from John Wilcox concerning his ironworks
Wilcox, John
1781 
Volume 15, Pages 214-215

JOHN WILCOX TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF N. C

To the Honourable the General Assembly now sitting, the Memorial of John Wilcox

Humbly Sheweth,

That your Memorialist, at a very great expence, erected a furnice & forge in 
Chatham County for the purpose of making Iron; that he hath supplied the army 
of the United States at different times with iron to the amount of five tonns 
& upwards, which he hath never received any kind of satisfaction for; that 
some time in June last your Memorialist had the misfortune to lose his Furnice 
by means of a very great fresh; that your Memorialist is entirely unable to 
repair his works again, unless this Hon'ble House will be good enough to make 
him some satisfaction for the Iron and sundry other things they have rec'd of 
him for the use of the publick. Your Memorialist begs leave also to inform 
this House that he stands in need of sundry workmen to compleat his Business, 
which he is obliged to bring from the Northern States, where, by the laws, 
they are exempt from Military duty, and refuse to come to this State, unless 
they can also be exempt. Therefore your Memorialist greatly hopes this Honble. 
House will take these things into consideration and do what to them in their 
great good sense seems right.

J. WILCOX.

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