Wake County NcArchives Court.....Turner, Simon 1790 ************************************************ 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 September 17, 2014, 4:00 am Source: Colonial Records Written: 1790 Minutes of the North Carolina House of Commons North Carolina. General Assembly November 01, 1790 - December 15, 1790 Volume 21, Pages 871-1083 HOUSE JOURNAL---1790. North Carolina. At a General Assembly begun and held at Fayetteville The committee to whom the memorial of Simon Turner, David Turner, William Turner and Jonathan Turner, for themselves and Elizabeth and Ann Turner, surviving children of their elder brother John Turner, dec., reported—That Simon Turner, late of Wake county, dec., by his last will and testament in writing, devised to the aforesaid petitioners his sons, certain lands and tenements for life only— That by clear and satisfactory testimony, it further appears that the said testator intended the lands so devised should descend to his said sons the petitioners, their heirs and assigns, forever; wherefore the committee beg leave to recommend, that a law be passed, vesting in them the said petitioners an estate in fee-simple to the lands so devised, agreeable to the will of the testator. Which is submitted. WILLIAM POLK, Ch. Resolved, That the house do concur with this report. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wake/court/turner809nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb