Dobbs County, NC - Court Records

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Source: Petitions for Re-Survey of Land Grants, 1721-1775. Secretary of State. 
        S.S. 727.4

To His Excellency the Governour in Council____________________

           The Humble Petition of Robert Hamilton_______________

                                    Sheweth___________

That your Petitioner purchased from Simon Bright Sen'r 200 Acres of Land Lying 
in Dobbs County on the South Side of Stony Town Creek about Sixteen years agoe 
and has been settled upon the said Land and paid the Quit Rents during the sd 
time.

           Now so it is, May it please your Honours, Simon Bright the Younger 
has been perswading your petitioner of the said Land and tells him that His 
Land is where some poor people has been Settled these Eighteen or Ninteen Years 
which would not leave your petitioner above Forty Acres of the Land Purchased of 
the said Simon Bright Sen'r as Afores'd occationed by an Error or Mistake of the 
Surveyors returning different courses than the marked Trees will make appear 
which can be proved by the Oath of Francis Hodges Uncle to the said Simon 
Bright the Younger, who carried the Chain round the said Land about Thirty two 
years agoe when it was Surveyed for the patent.

           Your petitioner therefore Humbly prays for a warrant of Resurvey of 
the said Land agreeable to the marked Trees and further prays that He may have 
His patent altered agreeable to the bounds Trees

           And your Petitioner as in duty Bound will Ever pray &c

New Bern 27th February 1773                            Robert Hamilton

On reverse: Dobbs Co. Petition of Robt Hamilton
            Petition
            A warrant of Resurvey order'd

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