Craven County NcArchives Court.....Reed, James & Hannah 1780
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1780

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1780
North Carolina. General Assembly
April 17, 1780 - May 10, 1780
Volume 24, Pages 314-343

CHAPTER XIX.

An Act for vesting and confirming in Hannah Reed, widow and administratrix of 
the late Reverend James Reed, deceased, the personal estate of the said James 
Reed in her own right, and for other purposes.

I. Whereas the Reverend James Reed died intestate, and left no children, or 
other legal representative in this or any of the United State of America; and 
whereas by an Act of the General Assembly now in force in this State, 
intituled, An Act appointing a method for the distributing intestates estates, 
passed in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty six, only 
one moiety of the estate of such intestate is allotted to his widow; and 
whereas the whole of the property of which the said James Reed died possessed 
of was acquired by his intermarriage with his now widow;

II. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North 
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that all and 
every part and parcel of the personal estate of which the said James Reed died 
seized and possessed, be and remain in the said Hannah Reed, to her sole use, 
benefit and behoof, for ever.

III. And whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, that before the 
running of the dividing line between this State and the commonwealth of 
Virginia, some grants have been made by the Governor of Virginia for lands 
which, since the running of the said line, appear to be within this State: In 
order therefore that the General Assembly may have it in their power at a 
future day to do whatever may appear just and equitable to the respective 
parties interested as aforesaid, Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, 
that so much of the said recited Act as might be construed to affect the 
claims of such persons as before the running of the dividing line aforesaid 
had obtained grants from the Governor of Virginia, shall be suspended until 
the next session of the General Assembly; and the surveyors of the said county 
shall not survey or return their works for any lands so patented until after 
the next session of Assembly; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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