Robeson County, NC - Petition of Jacob Rhodes, 1790

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McPhaul and Rhodes Lawsuit

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Title:       December 26: Petition of Jacob Rhodes
Provenance:  Class:  State Records(Collection)
             Group:  General Assembly Record Group
             Series:  Session Records
             Box:  Session of December, 1791 - January, 1792:
                   Reports (Miscellaneous including Executive
                   Messages), Petitions, and Amendments
             Folder:  Petitions (Real Estate and Confiscated
                      Property)

Creator:     General Assembly
Call Number: 3A.464
Location     GASRDec 1791-Jan 1792, Box 3
MARS ID:     66.8.62.4.26  (Item)
Scope/       Rhodes bought property at a sale of confiscated property
Contents     which eventually lead to controversy and a lawsuit between
             him and the original owner.  Rhodes asks the General
             Assembly for reimbursement for the cost of the 
             lawsuit.

Indes Terms:  Geographic Names:
                Robeson County
                Wilmington District
                Fayetteville District

              Subjects:
                Land Sale and Transfer

              Personal Names:
                Rhodes, James
                McKae, Griffith John
                McFall, Neil
                McFall, Mary

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                                                   ?  Dec. 21, 1790
"To The honorable The General Assembly
 of the State of NoCarolina at Robeson,

               The petition of Jacob Rhodes of Robeson
County Humbly Shewith,

               That Your petitioner did as the Second
day of May 1786 purchase of Griffith John McRee, Commissioner
of confiscated property for the district of Wiliming two
Tracts of Land Containing 150 acres the property of Neil 
McFall of said County that for the said two tracts of Land
Your petitioner paid to the Commissioner aforesaid the Sum of one 
hundred & thirty two pounds in Specie, Certificates of
that he brought Such, against Mary McFall Widow of the
said Neill, for the Recovery of Lands, in the Superior
Court for the District of Fayetteville, when after Many
delays, and Expenses to the injury of Your Petitioner,the
court was tryid of determining in the said Superior Court,
at their last term, when Judgement was Given in Favor of
the defendant.

                Your petitioner having Stated the Facts
as aforesaid beg ???? to refer Your Honours to the Coppy of
the Records of said county of the Commissioner ?? for the
purchase money of said Lands, which he hopes that the Instess??
of his petition will induce Your honors to Restore to him,
or Reimburse him in the Monies Expended in said Suit of
your petitioner as is duly bound will ?pay?  ??

                                        Rhodes

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(Back and Endorsement Sheets)

Petition of Jacob
Rhodes

Report & paper del.  J. T. Rhodes
             by JHunt

Memorial of Jacob
Rhodes of Robeson County------

In Senate 21 Dec.
1791 and Referred 
to the Com. of (illegible)
(Illegible)

          Haywood??

In the House of Commons 
21 Dec 1791 and Referred
as by the Senate
By order 
        JHunt CMR

(Illegible entry)   Granted

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