Chowan County NcArchives Court.....Boundary Petition, Chowan/Perquimans County 1773
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1773

Petition from inhabitants of Chowan County concerning the Chowan 
County/Perquimans County boundary
Hunter, Elisha; Et Al.
April 10, 1773 
Volume 09, Pages 633-635

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

Petition from the people of Chowan County.

North Carolina. 
To His Excellency Josiah Martin Esquire, Captain General, Governor and 
Commander in Chief in and Over the Province of North Carolina, The Members of 
His Majesty's Honourable Council, and to The Worshipfull The Speaker and 
Members of the House of Assembly of the Province aforesaid.

The Petition of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Chowan

Humbly sheweth

That Whereas, no line was ever run, by Commissioners legally Appointed for 
that purpose, between the Countys of Chowan and Perquimons, from the first 
Settlement of the said Countys, and for the Term of Fifty Years, last past, a 
line running from the mouth of Yeopim River, and so up a Branch of said River 
to Egerton's Mill, so with a Branch of the same Mill Swamp through a large 
body of Poccosen Land, in a direct line, so as to strike a place called the 
Horse Pasture, and the Plantation of a certain William Jackson, lying on the 
Main road, leading from the Virginia Road, to Perquimons River Bridge, has 
been the reputed line, dividing the County of Chowan from Perquimons; And Your 
Petitioners Pray Your Excellency, Gentlemen of his Majesty's Honourable 
Council, Mr Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, That you will, by 
a Law, to be by you passed for that purpose, Nominate & Appoint certain 
Commissioners to run the line as above described, and when so run by the said 
Commissioners, that the same shall stand and remain the proper dividing line 
between the said Counties of Chowan and Perquimons: And Your Petitioners, in 
duty bound, will ever Pray, and so forth.

Chowan County, 10th April 1773. 

Elisha Hunter 
Thomas McNider 
Nat. Jones 
James Sumner 
Frederick Lassiter 
Ter Haughton 
Aaron Hills 
Timothy Walton 
Amos Trotman 
John Briggs 
John Darden 
James Costen 
John Ewing 
John Norcom 
David Rieg 
Demsey Bond 
Joseph Rogges 
William Bond 
Wm Boyd 
John Coffield 
John Beasley 
Thos Hunter 
Abner Eason 
Jos. Worley 
Thomas Brice 
Richd Humphreys 
William Halsey 
Benjamin Small 
Joseph Parrish 
William Liles 
Dimsey Simson 
David Jones 
Clement Hall 
Richard Whedbee 
Cadar Hill 
Jacob Norfleet 
Hend Standing 
Absalom Blanshard 
Isaac Lewis 
Jacob Powell 
John Dardan 
Thos Gregorie 
Jacob Hunter 
Abraham Harrell 
Miles Halsey 
John Mitchel 
Diamissian Minshaw 
Luke Taylor 
Josiah Copeland 
Argile Timons 
Jonas Bynam 
Pelatian Walton 
William Hinton 
Thos Oldham 
Shadrach Bunch 
John Hicks 
Charles Benbury 
Job Leary 
John Hopkins 
Jacob Jordan 
Nicholas Stallings 
Saml Popelston 
Thos Hoskins 
Jonathan Roberts 
James Farrow 
Charles Jordan 
Wm Hoskins 
James Price 
Da Haynes 
Simon Stallings 
Aaron Blanshard 
James Knight 
William Hinton 
Jacob Hinton 
William Bond 
Elisha Harris 
Richard Hoskins 
Joseph Johnston 
Joseph Wilkins 
John Bond 
Samuel Green 
Moses Hare 
Isaac Byram 
John Garrett 
John Evans Junr 
Amos Laster 
Jethro Melteer 
Thomas Walton 
Zebulon Mansfield 
Benja Berryman 
Christopher Gayle 
Thomas Rountree 
Edward Welch 
Thomas Gooding 
Tho. Jones 
Thomas Ward 
James Gregory 
Robert Walton 
James Brice Junr 
Abraham Hill 
Champen Spivey 
Wilm Luten
Amos Hobbs 
Samuel Meguire 
John Lewis 
William Kelly 
James Freeman 
Thos Wright 
Henry Thompson 
Thomas Brooks 
Henry Champion 
Jesse Eyeland 
William Jones 
Patrick Hicks 
Jonh Nail 
John Kim 
Moses Blanshard 
James Bivans 
John McTeohe 
Moses Wood 
William Munds 
Micajah Chappell 
Micajah Bunch 
Charles Rountree 
Thomas Wood 
Guy Hobbs 
David Welch 
William Birkit 
Jemay Trotman 
Thos Jones 
Joseph Champion 
James Thompson 
Robt Hardy 
Rob Smith 
Andw Little 
Robt Patterson 
Robert Black 
David Davis 
Jas Henderson 
George Colquhaun 
Archd Campbell 
Willm Bennett 
David Baxter 
William Dennody 
Alexr Montgomery 
Matthew Montgomery 
Joseph Whedbee 
John Addison 
Will Righton 
Jacob Simons 
Thomas Standing 
John Leary 
Peter Adams 
John Hornsblow 
Jno Boggs 
Jno Green 
John Bennett 
John Mushrad 
Aurt Elberson 
James Woodbine 
O. Dickinson 
John C. Bains 
William Haughton 
William Askewes Jr 
John Rombough 
Charles Hindsley 
William McAlpen 
Thos Bonners


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