Martin County NcArchives Court.....Nobles - Name Change, Henry, Mary, Lydia & Benjamin 1790
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1790

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1790
November 01, 1790 - December 15, 1790
Volume 25, Pages 64 - 115

CHAPTER XXXVII.

An Act to Alter the Names of Certain Persons therein mentioned.

Whereas, Benjamin Wheatly, of the county of Martin, has by petition requested 
that the names of Henry, Mary, Lydia and Benjamin Nobles, children of 
Elizabeth Nobles should be altered, and that they should hence forward be 
known by the names of Henry, Mary, Lydia and Benjamin Wheatly: and whereas, it 
appears that the said Benjamin Wheatly is the reputed father of the said 
Henry, Mary, Lydia and Benjamin Nobles, and having no lawful issue is desirous 
of leaving to them the property he possesses:

I. 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 for 
henceforward and forever hereafter, the said Henry, Mary, Lydia and Benjamin 
Nobles, shall be known and distinguished by the names of Henry Wheatly, Mary 
Wheatly, Lydia Wheatly and Benjamin Wheatly, and by those names shall have the 
right to inherit and claim any estate, either real or personal, which may be 
devised to them or either of them by the said petitioner, Benjamin Wheatly, in 
as full and ample a manner as if they the said Henry, Mary, Lydia and Benjamin 
had been born in wedlock, and had been from the time of their births 
considered as the legitimate children of the said Benjamin Wheatly and 
Elizabeth Nobles; and shall forever be placed in the same situation and be 
considered to all intents and purposes in the same point of view, as though 
they legally descended from the said Benjamin Wheatly and Elizabeth Nobles, 
and had been born in wedlock as aforesaid.


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