Chowan County NcArchives Court.....Governor's Council, Minutes Of 1735 ************************************************ 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 August 2, 2009, 2:55 pm Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina Written: 1735 Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council North Carolina. Council September 24, 1735 - September 29, 1735 Volume 04, Pages 53-63 At a Council held at Newbern on Nuse River on the 24th day of September Anno Dom 1735 Present His Excellency the Governour The Honoble William Smith Esqr Member of His Majestys Council The Honoble Nath Rice Esqr Member of His Majestys Council The Board adjourned till to-morrow morning 10 of the Clock Thursday 25th September Met according to Adjournment Present as before Read the Petition of Martin Frank setting forth That he obtained a Patent from the late Lords Proprietors for 10175 Acres of Land and paid the then Recer General £20.3.10 purchase money for the same but that the Date of the said Patent being since the Kings purchase of the Soil he apprehends the same to be invalid and therefore prays a Warrant for said Land or such part thereof as his Excellency the Governour shall think meet and that he may be permitted to surrender and give up his said Patent Whereupon his Excellency the Governour was pleased to ask the said Martin Frank whether by threats or persuasions he was induced to surrender the said Patent to which he answered in the Negative declaring that he voluntarily freely and of his own accord did surrender and give up the said Patent which accordingly was surrendered and given up and Ordered to be lodged in the Secretary's Office Then the said Martin Frank made oath on the Holy Evangelists of whom and before what means he purchased the said Patent His Excellency the Govr by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council was pleased to order that Warrants issue to the Surveyor General to admeasure and lay out to Martin Frank 500 Acres of Land in two several places Read the Petition of Col William Wilson setting forth that he was Erecting a saw mill on a branch of Brice's Creek therefore prays a Warrant for 300ac of Land for the Support of the said Mill Whereupon the said William Brice appeared and prayed the said Petition might be rejected for that the Land Petitioned for by said Wilson was his and that he had several Barrels of Turpentine, pitch and tar upon the said Land to which twas answered that the Land on which said Brice had made turpentine &c as aforesaid was not the 300ac petitioned for as above by Col Wilson but a tract of 340ac adjoining to the 300ac Whereupon His Excellency the Govr by and with the advice and consent of His Majestys Council was pleased to order a Warrt to issue as prayed by said Wilson he permitting the said Brice to remove his turpentine &c if any happen to be on the said Wilson's Land provided he the said Brice takes up the forementioned 340 acres of Land The following Petitions were this day preferred and read setting forth that they the Petitioners had obtained Warrants from the late Governour Burrington which having been duely executed and returned they praying Patents for the same which were accordingly granted Vizt Francis Dawson 200ac Craven, Jacob Sheets 640 do, Joseph Parry 537 Onslow, William Wilson 1300ac Craven, Thos Lovick & Fras Thorton 640 Carteret, Edwd Sowle 517 Onslow Adjourned till tomorrow 10 of the Clock Fryday the 26th of September 1735 Met according to adjournment Present as before Read the Petition of Mathew Reasonover setting forth that he obtained the Governours Warrant for 176 Acres of Land on the So side of Trent river which having been surveyed and returned into the Secretary's Office prays a Patent be Granted and Ordered that a Patent issue accordingly Read the Petition of Martin Frank setting forth that he had the late Govr Burrington's Warrt for 400ac of Land in Craven Precinct which has been duely surveyed and returned prays a Patent Ordered that Patents issue accordingly Adjourned till to morrow 10 of the Clock Saturday 27th September 1735 Met according to adjournment Present His Excellency the Governour The Honoble William Smith Esqr Member of His Majestys Council The Honoble Nath Rice Esqr Member of His Majestys Council John Slocum appeared at this Board and declared he obtained a Patent from the late Secretary Richard Everard dated in the year 1724/30 and pray leave to surrender the same which is Granted. Ordered that the said Slocum deliver said Patent into the Secretary's Office Read the Petition of Jno Fonville Esqr setting forth that he purchased three several patents for Land on Nuse River and that one Capt Joseph Hanine have also two several Patents interferring (as he conceives) with your Petitioners Patents Therefore prays a resurvey be made of the said Lands so that the Boundarys may be ascertained according to the Courses of each Patent Ordered that the Surveyor General do resurvey the Lands mentioned in the said Petition and that he make report to this board of his doings therein. The following Petitions were this day Preferred and Read directed to His Excellency the Governour in Council setting forth that they the said Petitioners had obtained Warrants from the late Governour Burrington Vizt George Roberts 461 Craven, Jas Green 578 Do, George Roberts 553 Craven, Thos Hogg 316 Craven, John Murphy 627 Do And the said Warrants being Surveyed and returned into the Secretarys Office they the Petitioners pray Patents for the same. Granted. Then this Board adjourned till Monday Morning Monday 29th September 1735 Read the Petition of Martin Franks setting forth that he is possessed of a tract of Land on the North side of Trent river joyning Thos Pollocks Land by virtue of an old Patent for 640ac of Land and being apprehensive that more Land is contained within the said Tract than the compliment. He therefore prays a resurvey of the said Land and in case there should be found a surplusage he prays a Warrant for the same being willing to pay his Majesty the Quit rents from the time of his Purchase of this province which by the advice and consent of His Majestys Council His Excellency was pleased to Grant. Ordered That the Surveyor General be and is hereby directed to resurvey the aforesaid Lands and that he make report of his doings therein to this Board Read the following petitions setting forth that they the Petitioners by virtue of the late Governour Burrington's Warrant Vizt Robt Jones Craven 640 in Peter Pitmans name Alex Steel Craven 440 in Peter Pitmans name had surveyed the said Lands and a return thereof is lodged in the Secretarys Office they therefore pray Grants or patents Ordered that Patents issue accordingly Read the Petition of Christian Slaubaugh setting forth that he obtained a Warrant to survey 212 Acres of Land in Craven precinct which was duely surveyed and returned into the Secretary's Office He prays a Patent which is Granted Ordered that a Patent issue accordingly Read the petition of Jno Letcher Miller setting forth that he obtained a Warrant to survey 613 Acres of Land in Craven that the same was duely survey and returned into the Secretarys Office therefore prays a Patent Granted Ordered that a patent issue accordingly. 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