Greene County, NC - Map of Contentnea Creek, 1796 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Martha M. Marble - 58marble@suddenlink.net Map of Contentnea Creek 1796, showing fording place, new bridge, Hooker's bridge. Found several years ago in NC Archives by Roger Kammerer. Mike Edge said it was the Haw Landing Bridge. [Written on map: In obedience to an order of the Superior Court Newbern District March Term 1796 I have surveyed the lands in dispute between James Phillips & Easler Kilpatrick which the above plott accurately represents.] I have a number of notations on this case. Craven Co Court Defendant in James Phillips vs Easler Kilpatrick - l793-l803 Plaintiff in John and Isler Kilpatrick vs James Phillips Sr. l80l-l803, in this case Isler and John called themselves "brothers". Litigation began between the families of James Phillips and Easley Kilpatrick as early as l793, when Phillips lost a trespass case against Kilpatrick in Lenoir County. The land in question lay south of Great Contentnea Creek near Mill Creek. Phillips claimed a l40 Ac tract under a patent granted to Lewis Conner commonly called Col. Dry's which overlapped a portion of the l760 grant of 400 Acs to Easley Kilpatrick. Because litigation with Phillips over the elder Kilpatrick's 400 Ac grant continued with John and Isler Kilpatrick as plaintiffs, it can be assumed that both acquired rights on the controversial tract as the sons and heirs of Easley. In an abstract sent by Dr. Howard Phillips from a Jury trial 20 July l804 Craven County - Minutes of Superior Court - New Bern Court: James Phillips Sr. and James Phillips Jr. found guilty of owing John and Isler Kilpatrick money the Phillips were fined 6 pence and 6 pence cost. It is my opinion that the James Sr. was the son of Thomas and Isabella which would have him dying after l804. This case went on for years. Think it started in Lenoir Co then went to District Court.