Craven County NcArchives Court.....Green, Furnifold 1756 & 1764
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1756 & 1764

Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
March 12, 1756 - March 19, 1756
Volume 05, Pages 653-655

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

COUNCIL JOURNALS.

At a Council held at Newbern

Read the Petition of Furnifold Green setting forth that the above mentioned 
Furnifold Green the father of your Petitioner on or about the year 1707 obtained 
a Grant or Patent from the Lords Proprietors Deputies of this Province for 
seventeen Hundred Acres of Land lying on the North side of Neuce River lying 
between two Creeks the one called Furnifold Greens Creek and the other then 
called Broad Creek and is now known by the name of Smith's Creek, which land 
your Petitioner further settled and cultivated until the year 1714 and was in 
the year with one of his sons one white servant and two Negros Murdered on the 
said Plantation by the Indians The said Indians at that time also shot one other 
son of your Petitioners Father through the shoulder, (who Escaped) and had his 
said Plantation House Stock of Cattle and Hogs entirely destroyed and Plundered 
by the said Indians but before that time having made his will Disposed of the 
said Tract of Land to your Petitioner the Quiet and peaceable possession of 
which they have Enjoyed ever since the Ending of the said Indian War Nevertheless, 
some Evill minded Persons Desirous of disturbing your Petitioners in their Quiet 
and Peaceable Possession suggest or Insinuate that there is a Greater Quantity of 
Acres of Land Contained within the bounds Mentioned in the said Patent than what 
are specifyed in the same.

Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray that your Excellency and Honours will Grant 
an Order for Resurveying the said Land whereby it may appear if there is a Greater 
Quantity (or not) of Land contained within the Bounds specifyed by the said Patent 
and if on return of the said Resurvey it shall appear that there is a Greater 
Quantity of Acres than what are mentioned in the said Patent, Your Petitioners may 
have the Libberty of taking up the same and your Petitioners as in Duty bound 
shall pray &c.

FURNIFOLD GREEN
JAMES GREEN
Which was granted and ordered accordingly.

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Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
April 19, 1764 - April 25, 1764
Volume 06, Pages 1071-1076

Council held at Wilmington

Read the Petition of Furnifold Green and James Green setting forth that their 
father Furnifold Green obtained a patent for 1700 Acres of Land in Craven County 
on the No side of Neuse River bearing date the 10th day of October 1707 which 
Patent the petitioners prayed to have Recorded (Judging the Old Record to be 
Defaced).

Ordered that the said Petition be Rejected and That the present Record of said 
Patent be deemed sufficient.


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