Statewide County NcArchives Court.....Land, Saving Of 1726 ************************************************ 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: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 August 25, 2008, 8:28 pm Source: Colonial Records Written: 1726 North Carolina sc. At a Council held at Council Chamber in Edenton the 1st day of April Anno Domini 1726. Present the Honorable Sir Richard Everard Barronet Governor etc., William Ree, Christ. Gale, J. Lovick, E. Moseley, Fran. Foster, R. Sanderson, Thos. Harvey, Jno Palin Esqrs. Members of the Council. For saving of Lands for the future every house shall be fifteen foot long, Ten Broad, made tight and habitable of clapboards or loggs squared with a roof and chimney place and a door place, the whole acre cleard well the major part of it broke up and planted with either fruite trees or grain. By order. [Colonial Records of NC - Records of the Executive Council, 1664-1734, p. 163] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/statewide/court/land557nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb