Granville County NcArchives Court.....Petition, Church Buildings 1771
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1771

Petition from inhabitants of Granville County concerning church buildings
Hampton, John; Et Al.
1771 
Volume 09, Pages 95-97

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

To the Honble the Speaker & Gentn of the House of Representatives

The Petition of the Inhabitants of Granville County & the Parish of Granville 
Humbly Sheweth that your Petitioners have for a Considerable time Labour'd 
under a Heavy & Burthernsome Tax whch the Exegencies of Government Hitherto 
made Necessary & unavoidable & still Apprehending that the Suppression of the 
Insurgents & other Contingent Charges of Government, have Inevitably Created a 
Large & Weighty Debt which the Honour of the Province is Ingag'd to pay with 
all Convenient Speed and which Your Petitioners are Ready & Willing to 
Discharge their proportion of, by such mode of Taxation as the wisdom of your 
honourable [body] shall Direct, Your Petitioners further shew that the Vestry 
of their Parish without duly Considering the Present Circumstances of 
Government & the heavy Taxes yt Shortly must be assessed upon Your Petitioners 
Have Engaged with Workmen to Build two Churches in their Parish the Expence of 
which will amount to upwards of Twelve Hundred pounds. Your Petitioners are by 
no means able at this Juncture to Discharge such a Considerable Sum, altho 
upon any future Occasion After the Demands of Government are Comply'd with 
they wou'd Chearfully Contribute all in their power to have done whatever 
their Duty as Christians or the Interest of Religion may Require of them. 
Under these Circumstances Your Petitioners Pray that an Act may Pass to Releav 
the Vestry from the Engagements they have Entered into as aforesd & as the 
Workmen who have undertaken the sd Buildings are willing to be Releas'd on 
their parts upon being paid a Small Gratuity for their Disappointment & 
Trouble Your Petitioners further pray that by the sd Act they may be Released 
from the Penalty of the bond by them Given for the Performance of their 
undertaking & that the Vestry may be Impower'd to lay a Sufficient Sum in the 
Parish Levey to be paid as a Compensation to these Workmen for the Trouble 
they have been at as aforesd & Your Petitioners also further Pray that the 
Inhabitants of the sd Parish may be Releas'd from the Payment of So much of 
the Parish assessment as was Laid for Carrying on & performing the Building 
the Churches as aforesd and the Collector Indemnified for not Collecting that 
part of the assessment as aforesd and Your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall 
ever Pray &c

John Hampton 
Michael Peelar 
Henry Fuller 
Thomas Goss 
James Meders 
Joseph McDaniel 
Jesse Parker 
Valentine White 
William Briant 
Groves Howard 
David Howard 
James Langston 
John Williams Jr 
Thos Philpot 
William Spears 
Richd Person 
John Knott 
James Nowil 
John Earl 
Francis Howard 
Christopher Hunt 
Edw Crenshaw 
Charles Moore 
John Smith 
William Worthington 
James Caudill 
Isom Caudill 
Carter Hedgebeth 
Solomon Langston 
James Labond 
Frances Davenport 
Christian Peelor 
Z Gorgebyus 
Benjamin Glaze 
Samuel Dyar 
Reuben Pyles 
John Russel 
Eley Brinckley 
David Parrish 
Edward Bond 
Cutbird Hudson 
Isaac Hood 
Wm Wallis 
Jno Tuder Senr 
Isaac Head 
Thos Rowe 
Jno Badget 
Daniel Standard 
Aquiller Sniling 
Gibea Chavis 
Benjaman Bass 
Joseph Bass 
Davie Michell (negro) 
Lewis Anderson 
Rubin Bass 
Lawrence Potiford 
Edward Bass 
William Chavis 
John Fullilove 
Samuel Hucabay 
Thomas Owen 
Richardson Owen 
John Pendergrass 
Absalom Ford 
Lewis Collins 
George Whitlock 
Thomas Butler 
John Gwin 
Humphry Davis 
Josiah Stovall 
Thomas Head 
John Head 
Martha Knight 
Thomas Bond 
Jonathan Knight 
Nathan Chiles 
Ben Bearden 
Lovet Gates 
Benjamin Hendrick 
John Chiles 
William Graves 
Wm Allen 
Willis Roberts 
James Williamson 
William Hunt 
Thos Lowe 
Isham Johnson 
Isaac White 
William Head 
George Feagans 
Charles Spalding 
Henry Spalding 
William Matthews 
Ben Howard 
Thomas Willinghan 
Shadarach Roberts
George Bruce 
John Pulliam 
John Boyd 
Miles Wells 
William Cawthon 
Antney Pallear 
Daniel Wilkerson 
James Hester 
Thomas Bing 
Nathan Sanders 
John Wilkerson 
Anthoney Cozart
William Wharton 
John Hart 
John Harris 
James Downey 
John Davis 

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