State-Wide, NC - James & Nancy Morris - Act to Legitimate

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An Act to alter the names of James Morris and Nancy Morris, 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 the
names of James Morris and Nancy Morris, children of Wilie Shelton
and Peggy Morris, now deceased, at the instance and request of said
Shelton, shall be, and the same are hereby altered to the names of
James Shelton, and Nancy Shelton, and by those names they are hereby
legitimated, and entitled to inherit from their said father, Wilis
Shelton, by descent and distribution as fully and effectually, as if 
they had been born in wedlock, any thing in any other law to the 
contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1834-35
Chapter CIX
Page 69

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