Perquimans County NcArchives Court.....Evans, Richard 1713 ************************************************ 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: Rosie Guthrie n/a September 19, 2014, 12:47 am Source: Colonial Records Written: 1713 Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council North Carolina. Council November 04, 1713 - November 05, 1713 Volume 02, Pages 65-73 [Council Journal.] Att a Council holden at ye house of Capt Thos Lee in Chowan Upon the petition of Jonathan Evans Legatee of ye last will and Testamt of Richard Evans Dec'd Setting forth that his father Richard Evans was seized and possessed of a Certain plantation and Tract of Land Scituated lying & being in perquimons precinct Conteyneing three hundred and fifty acres and being Soe Seized and possessed as afsd Departed this life and by his last will and Testamt Devised ye same to him ye Said Jonathan as in & by ye said Will relation being thereunto had may more fully apear Nevertheless Peter Jones of ye afsd precinct well knowing the afsd plantation and tract of land to be ye Said Jonathan's Lawfull & rightfull Inheritance one hundred & fifty acres part & parcell thereof hath survey'd thereby Obstructing him ye said Jonathan to survey the same Contrary to Equity and Good Conscience wherefore prays that ye Survey made by the said Peter Jones may be null & Void And that he may be admited to Survey the Same. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/perquimans/court/evans829nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb