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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1716

Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
January 21, 1716 - January 23, 1716
Volume 02, Pages 216-218

[Council Journal.]

North Carolina ss 
Att a Council holden at the house of Capt Fredk Jones in Chowan on 21st day of 
January 1716 

Present the Honble Charles Eden Esqr Govr Capt Genll & Admll 
The Honble Nath Chevin Esqr Lds proptrs Depty 
The Honble Fras Foster Esqr Lds proptrs Depty 
The Honble Chr Gale Esqr Lds proptrs Depty 
The Honble T Knight Esqr Lds proptrs Depty 

Coll Christopher Gale Presented a Commission to this Board from the Lds 
proprietors Appointing him Chiefe Justice of this Province and pray'd the same 
might be read and Admitted of And the Question being put to this Board by the 
Governor whither the Said Commission ought to be published and Take place 
before the Instructions Came over or not and it passt in ye Affirmative and 
thereupon the Said Commission was read and admitted of accordingly.

Major Tho Luten preferrd a petition to this Board praying that Letters 
Testamentary might be Granted to him on ye Last Will and Testamt of Mrs Ester 
Pollock Dec'd and ye honble Coll Thos Pollock Late husband of ye sd Ester 
haveing made known to this Board his reasonable Excuse for not appearing at 
this time

It is Ordered that the subject matter of ye Said Petition be referr'd to ye 3d 
day of ye next General Court and that if the said Coll Pollock appear not at 
yt time this Board will proceed to determine ye same

Then this Board adjourned to ye Governors house on Munday next.

Att wch time and place this Board mett present ut Supra

Upon Petition of Lewis Conner Esqr Setting forth that he did on ye 22 day of 
June 1713 make an Entry with Thos Pollock Junr the then Surveyor Genll of all 
ye Land Swamp and Lowe Ground from the head of his own Land in Pamplico yt he 
bought of Major Barrow up to ye head of Aldersons and yt which was Collingwood 
Wards cleare across ye neck to Matchapungo Creek or as farr as the Land of 
Major Barrow and others adjoyning and that Conformable to ye Custom of this 
Governmt he did request the Surveyor Genll to Survey or cause ye said Land to 
be Surveyed for him and did Treat wth ye Lords Receiver General for and 
Concerning the payment of ye Purchase money for ye same but either by the 
remissness of ye Surveyor or for some other reason to him ye said Conner 
unknown the said Land is not yett laid out and that he has advertised yt one 
Mr John Porter is takeing up part of ye same Lands and therefore prayes that 
this board will Order ye present Surveyor Generall or his Deputy to survey and 
lay out the same according to this said Entrey

Ordered that the Surveyr Genll or his Depty do lay out the aforesaid Land 
pursuant to ye purport of ye said petition provided he do not interfere wth 
the proprietors Instructions or any other former warts or Enteries thereon

Upon Petition of Katherine King Widdow and relict of John King dec'd Shewing 
that a Tract of Land Lyeing on the Middle Branch of Salmon Creek belonging to 
John King her late husband Containing Six hundred and Forty acres is Lapst for 
want of being seated in due time pursuant to ye pattent and prays the same may 
be granted to her

Ordered that the same be granted as pray'd for

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