Union County NcArchives Court.....Elliott, Joseph A. & Mary A. 1860
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Source: Personal Record
Written: 1860

STATE OF GEORGIA
CASS COUNTY           Know all men by these presents that we JOSEPH E. ELLIOTT 
& MARY A. ELLIOTT of the County of Cass in the state of Georgia have made 
constituted & appointed and be these presents do make constitute & appoint 
JOSEPH ADAMS of the County of Union in the State of North Carolina our true 
and lawful attorney for us & in our name, place and stead to sue and demand 
for collect receive and recover from SAMUEL WALKUP, Executor of JONATHAN 
BURLYSON, deceased, the legacy & distributive share of the Estate of JONATHAN 
BURLYSON, late of Union County in the State of North Carolina and all sum of 
money and other demand of every kind nature and description whatsoever due, 
owing or payable to us from the estate of JONATHAN BURLYSON, deceased, of 
Union County in the state of North Carolina or what may become due & payable 
to us as one of the Legatees or distributees of the estate aforesaid under the 
will of the said JONATHAN BURLYSON, deceased and to give good and sufficient 
receipt acquittances & discharges thereof and to execute all proper bonds & 
instruments necessary in the premises to the said SAMUEL H. WALKUP, Executor 
as aforesaid giving granting unto our said attorney full power & authority to 
do & perform all and every act & thing whatsoever, whatsoever request so 
necessary to be done & ___ the premises as full to all intents & purposes as 
we could do if personally present in the Power & authority of substitution & 
revocation hereby ratify & confirming all that our said attorney, or his 
substitute shall lawful do or cause to be done by virtue hereof & I do hereby 
ratify and confirm what our attorney JOSEPH STEWART by us heretofore appointed 
has done and a former power of attorney to him Executed by us & do hereby 
sustain & empower our said attorney by us now under these presents appoint & 
Ratify and confirm all the acts of our former attorney the said JOSEPH STEWART 
in the premises and we hereby authorize our present attorney to give full 
receipts & acquittances as well for what our former attorney has received from 
SAMUEL H. WALKUP, Executor as aforesaid under an informal power of attorney by 
us heretofore executed as for what he owes said attorney now hereby appointed 
& shall receive from the sd. SAMUEL H. WALKUP Executor of JONATHAN BURLYSON 
deceased and we do hereby Ratify and confirm all the acts of our former 
attorney as well as acts & deeds that may be done by our present attorney as 
fully & effectively as if done by our selves personally. In witness whereof we 
hereunto set our hands and seals the 4th day of May Eighteen hundred & Sixty. 
Signed sealed and delivered.
 
In the presence of
JOHN F. WILHOLLIN
D.F. BISHOP                   JOSEPH E. ELLIOTT (SEAL)
                              MARY A. ELLIOTT (SEAL)
 
STATE OF GEORGIA
CASS COUNTY                        I, THOMAS A WORD, clerk of the Superior 
Court, Court of the County of Cass & State of Georgia hereby certify that 
personally appeared before me JOSEPH E. ELLIOTT & MARY A. ELLIOTT and signed 
sealed and delivered these presents the foregoing Power of Attorney to JOSEPH 
ADAMS for the purposes therein contained acknowledged the Execution of the 
same before me In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  & affixed my 
seal of office at off on the 4th day of May AD 1860.
 
                              THOMAS A. WORD, Clerk Superior C.
                              Cass County, Georgia
 
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Union County
Term 1860              Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 
Then this Power of Attorney from JOSEPH E. & MARY A. ELLIOTT to JOSEPH ADAMS 
dated the 4th day of May 1860 was exhibited in open court & It appearing to 
the satisfaction of the court  that execution thereof had been duly 
acknowledged in conformity with the Laws of the State It was therefore ordered 
to the court that the power of attorney Itself & the certificates thereto 
together with the record of these proceedings be Registered.
                              Witness:    J.F. HOUGH CCC

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