Lenoir County, NC - King Adoption

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KING ADOPTION

Information from Wilbur King

North Carolina, Lenoir County In the Superior Court

Richard W. King, Mary E. Taylor & Richard Taylor – Petition for Adoption and 
Change of name of Richard Taylor

The petition of Richard W. King, Mary E. Taylor, and Richard Taylor respectfully 
showeth unto your Worship that your petitioners reside in the said County of 
Lenoir, that the petitioner Richard Taylor was born on the 17th day of January, 
AD 1864, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, that your petitioner Mary 
E. Taylor is the mother and your petitioner, Richard W. King, is the putative 
father of said Richard Taylor, who was begotten and born out of lawful wedlock, 
that the said Richard W. King was unmarried at the time of the birth of the 
said Richard Taylor, that both of said parents are living and that the said 
Richard Taylor has no estate and resides with his mother the said Mary E. Taylor.  
That the said Richard W. King desires and intends to adopt the said Richard 
Taylor for his the said Richard Taylor’s life – to which adoption the said Mary 
E. Taylor hereby assents, as is signified by her signing and becoming a party 
of record to this proceeding, and also desire that said Richard Taylor may be 
declared his legitimate child in pursuance of Secs 7 & 8 of Chapter 9 of 
Battle’s Rrevisal. Your petitioners further show that the said Richard Taylor 
desires to change his name from Richard Taylor to Richard King.

Wherefore your petitioners pray your Worship to sanction and allow such adoption 
by an order granting letters of adoption, and to decree that the name of the 
said Richard Taylor may be changed to Richard King, and that they may have such 
other relief as the case requires, and also to declare the said Richard Taylor 
the legitimate child of the said Richard W. King.

R. W. King
Mary E. Taylor
Richard Taylor
George V. Strong, Attn for Petitioners

Affidavit of Richard W. King – Lenoir County, North Carolina
Richard W. King, one of the Petitioners in the foregoing petition maketh oath 
that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are true to his personal 
knowledge except to those matters stated on information and belief, and as to 
those he believes to be true.
R. W. King
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th day of October, AD 1882
Wm. W. N. Hunter, Superior Court Clerk

Order of Court, Lenoir County, North Carolina  In the Superior Court

Upon reading the foregoing petition and affidavit, the Court doth declare that 
the facts set forth in the said petition are true.  And it is therefore decreed 
that the name of the said Richard Taylor be and the same is hereby changed to 
Richard King.  And it further appearing that the said Richard W. King is a 
proper and suitable person, the adoption prayed for in said petition is hereby 
sanctioned and allowed and it is ordered that letters of adoption of the said 
Richard Taylor be granted and issued to the said Richard W. King, and that the 
said Richard Taylor be and he is hereby declared to be the legitimate child of 
the said Richard W. King in pursuance of Secs 7 & 8 of Chapter 9 of Battle’s 
Revisal, and this order shall have the effect forth with to establish the 
relations of parent and child between the said Richard W. King and the said 
Richard Taylor for the life of the said Richard Taylor, with all the duties, 
powers, and rights belonging to the actual relationship of parent and child, 
and should the said Richard W. King die intestate said Richard Taylor shall 
inherit the real estate and be entitled to the personal estate of the said 
Richard W. King in the same manner and to the same extent said Richard Taylor 
would be entitled to do if he had been the actual lawful child of the said 
Richard W. King. It is further ordered that this order be recorded in the 
office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Lenoir County aforesaid.
This 25th day of October, AD 1882
Wm. W. N. Hunter, Superior Curt Clerk
Approval of Judge – Approved Jas. C. MacRae, Judge & c

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