Rowan County NcArchives Court.....Jeremiah & Robert Field, William Field & 1789 ************************************************ 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: Connie Ardrey n/a March 14, 2009, 6:59 pm Source: Colonial Records Written: 1789 Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1789 November 02, 1789 - December 22, 1789 Volume 25, Pages 1 - 63 CHAPTER XXXVII. An Act to Vest in Jeremiah and Robert Field an Indefeasible Right to such Property as was Granted to them by their Father William Field, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six. Whereas, it has been made appear to this General Assembly, that William Field and Lydia his wife, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, made a deed of gift unto their children Jeremiah and Robert Field of a certain tract of land, lying in Rowan and Surry counties, containing six hundred and forty acres, to-wit: One tract of land on Abbott's creek, beginning at a hickory standing on the line of a survey late the property of William Buse, and running north along his line in all one hundred and two chains to a stake in the line of another survey of the said Buse, then west along said line, crossing said creek and a fork of the same, sixty-two and three-fourth chains to a black-oak and white-oak saplins, then south one hundred and two chains to a black-oak saplin, then east crossing said creek sixty-two and three-fourth chains to the beginning, containing six hundred and forty acres: And whereas, the said property was held as confiscated to the State by the Commissioners of confiscated property for the district of Salisbury; yet as the same was conveyed previous to any confiscation law of this State, bona fide, by the said William Field and Lydia his wife, to their children Jeremiah and Robert, I. 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 the said Jeremiah and Robert Field are hereby invested with an indefeasible title and interest in the property above described, to them, their heirs and assigns forever; any law heretofore to the contrary notwithstanding. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/court/jeremiah941wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb