Cumberland County, NC - Petition of Jonathan Keathley, 1827 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To the Worshipful Court of Cumberland County NC This petition sheweth that the petitioner is one of the heirs at law of Elisha Pipkin deceased & that by distribution a certain tract of land belonging to the estate of said Elisha Pipkin file to him viz grant No 942 made to Dan'l Clark the 26th day of Dec'r 1791 of 200 acres on the SW side of Cape Fear River and that an error was discovered in the location of sd land viz that the lines __ & __ were the lines originally marked as the boundary of said tract instead of the lines __ and __ as the plot annexed to the original patent represents The letters representing on a plat of resurvey of said land accompanying this petition and the deposition of Alex'r Clark your petitioner requests that this error may be rectified & he shall as in duty bound forever pray December the 4 day 1827 Jonathan Keathley ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts ___________________________________________________________________