Sampson County, NC - Benjamin & Robert Ezell - Act to Legitimate

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An Act to alter the names of Benjamin Michael Ezell and Robert
Marshall Ezell, of Sampson county, and to legitimate them

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 from and
after the passage of this act, Benjamin Michael Ezell and Robert
Marshall Ezell, illegitimate sons of Michael Sutton and Polly Ezell,
of Sampson county, shall be known and called by the names of Benjamin
Michael Sutton and Robert Marshall Sutton, and by those names may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded; and receive and take property
by descent and distribution.

II. And be it further enacted, That the said Benjamin Michael Ezell
and Robert Marshall Ezell be, and they are hereby declared legitimate
and capable in law to take and inherit property, as heirs to the
aforesaid Michael Sutton, in as full and ample a manner as if they had 
been born in lawful wedlock; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1829-30
Chapter CLXIII
Page 87

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