Nash County, NC - Milbry & Charlotte Stokes - Act to Legitimate

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An Act to alter the names and legitimate Milbry Stokes and Charlotte
Stokes

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Milbry
Stokes and Charlotte Stokes, children of Sherod Brantly and Tabitha
Brantly, of Nash county, (born out of wedlock) be, and they are
hereby legitimated, in as ample a manner as if born in wedlock; and
that they shall hereafter be known and called by the names of Milbry
Brantly and Charlotte Brantly, and that they shall be heirs at law
and next of kin, in the same manner, and to all intents and purposes
as if born in lawful wedlock, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1823-26
Chapter CXLIII
Page 89

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