Craven County, NC - Craven Precinct Petition, 1733 ~~~~~~~~~~ At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Edenton the 3d day of April Anno Domini 1733. Present His Excellency George Burrington Esqr. Governour etc. The Honourable Nathl. Rice, Robt. Halton, John Bapta. Ashe, John Lovick, Edmd. Gale, William Owen Esqrs. Members of His Majesty’s Council. Read the Petition of the Inhabitants of Craven Precinct in these Words Videlicet To George Burrington Esqr. His Majesty’s Capt. General, Governour, Commander in chief of the Province of North Carolina. Petition of Craven Precinct for Altering the Seat of Government We the Gentlemen and Freeholders of Craven precinct on Neuse River think our selves Extreemly happy under your wise and prudent Administration, the Good Orders and Peace we see now Established throughout this Province is the most convincing Proof of Your Excellencys Care and wisdom, and deserves the thanks and Gratefull Acknowlegement of all men in North Carolina. That Your Excellency will always patiently hear and redress any thing amis we know by Experience, or have been well assured from others, Therefore with great Submission desire to acquaint Your Excellency that there is a Discourse among us that You design to remove the Seat of Government to the lower part of Cape Fear River which if done will prove a great Inconvenience and Charge to four parts of the Inhabitants out of five in this Colony. We are sensible Edenton is for many reasons a very Inconvenient Place for the Seat of Government and almost as much may be said against the settling it on Cape Fear River. Therefore we humbly desire and hope Your Excellency will take proper measures for fixing the Seat of Government near the Centre of the Province which we suppose is on the South side of Neuse River which will give a general Satisfaction to almost the whole Province and greatly promote the Speedy peopling the unsettled part of this Country, Increase the Kings Quitt Rents, and Encourage Trade and Industry, and be an Everlasting Demonstration of Governour Burrington’s Kindness to the Inhabitants of North Carolina. That you Sir may in health and happiness long govern this Province is the Prayers of Your Excellencys most humble and most obligated Servants. Robt. Bond Rice Price John Gotling James Gumley John Berry Robt. 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