Duplin County NcArchives Court.....Torrens, Thomas & Elizabeth 1786
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1786

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1786 - 1787
1786 
Volume 24, Pages 783 - 884

CHAPTER LXIX.

An Act to Vest in Trustees Certain Powers for the Benefit of Elizabeth Torrens 
and Her Children.

Whereas the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Dobbs county hath been 
pleased to grant for the benefit of Elizabeth Torrens and her children, a 
certain portion of real and personal estate of Thomas Torrens, suggested to 
have been confiscated, and the order of the said court not having been 
sufficiently explicit in declaration of the use or appointing the trust; to 
prevent inconveniency and confusion that may therefrom arise:

I. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and 
it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, That James Kenan, John 
Molton and James Sampson, be and they are hereby appointed trustees for the 
purposes of laying off one third part of the personal estate granted as 
aforesaid, for the sole benefit of Elizabeth Torrens, the remainder to be for 
the sole benefit of her children. And the said Elizabeth having relinquished 
her right in the lands granted as aforesaid to her children,

II. Be it further Enacted, That the said trustees shall have power and 
authority so to use the same as to them may seem most fitting to promote their 
improvements for the benefit of the said children; or if it should appear to 
them conducive to the advantage of their trust, to sell the said lands for the 
purchase of others of greater or equal worth to the said children.

II. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trustees 
aforesaid or a majority of them, before entering on the execution of their 
trust, shall take the following oath, viz. "I, A. B. having been appointed by 
the General Assembly a trustee for the purpose of managing the estate real and 
personal granted by the court of pleas and quarter sessions of Dobbs county, 
for the use of Elizabeth Torrens and her children, do swear that I will truly, 
faithfully and impartially manage the same, agreeably to the powers in me 
vested, according to the best of my knowledge and ability. So help me God."

IV. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said 
trustees before entering into the execution of the said trust, shall enter 
into a joint and several bond to the chairman of Duplin court, in the sum of 
five thousand pounds for the use of Elizabeth Torrens and her children, to be 
void on condition of the equitable discharge of their said trust, and shall 
make return of all their proceedings to the said court of Duplin; which is 
hereby declared to have such superintending powers in the premises over the 
proceedings of the said trustees as they exercise in cases of orphans and 
guardians. (Passed Jan. 6, 1787.)


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