Guilford County NcArchives Court.....Cummins, Robert 1782 ************************************************ 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: Connie Ardrey n/a February 23, 2009, 5:43 pm Source: Colonial Records Written: 1782 Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1782 1782 Volume 24, Pages 413 - 474 CHAPTER XXXVII. An Act to vest the title of a certain Tract of Land in Robert Cummins. I. Whereas it hath been made appear to the satisfaction of the General Assembly, that Robert Cummins, of Guilford County, did purchase of a certain Archibald and John Hamilton, a certain tract of land in the county aforesaid, on the waters of Reedy Fork, containing two hundred and twelve acres, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a white oak, corner to the land of Edward Gilbert, running thence on his line west twelve chains and seventy five links to a white oak sapling, thence north fourteen chains and a half to a post oak, thence east, crossing Buffalow, sixty nine chains to a white oak, thence south thirty four chains and a half to a white oak, thence west fifty six chains and twenty five links to a white oak sapling, thence north crossing the Buffalow to the beginning twenty chains; and the said Robert Cummins having paid part of the purchase money, and taken bond of the said Archibald and John Hamilton, conditioned for the making to the said Cummins a good title in fee simple in and to the said land; and whereas the said Archibald and John Hamilton afterwards and before any legal title could be obtained from them for the land aforesaid, did withdraw themselves from this State and did attach themselves to the enemies of the United States, whereby all their lands and tenements, goods and chattels, are become forfeited to this State, and it being reasonable that the said land as aforesaid, purchased of them by the said Robert Cummins, be protected from confiscation and secured unto him; II. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James Martin, John Peasly and John Gillispie, commissioners of confiscated property in the said county of Guilford, they or any two of them receive whatever part of the purchase money is due by the said Cummins in specie, provided the same be tendered within six months, and that thereupon the said commissioners, or any two of them, be authorized and impowered to make and execute unto the said Robert Cummins a good and sufficient deed of conveyance, to him, his heirs and assigns, for the said land, all which proceedings, at the proper cost and charges of the said Robert Cummins, when had and done, shall be deemed sufficient in law to vest in him all the right and title which this State hath, or may have acquired, in and to the same, by confiscation, forfeiture or otherwise, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/court/cummins1482gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb