Wayne County, NC - Court Records - Small Portion of Duplin County became Wayne County - 1826 Legislative/General Assembly Papers Session from Dec 1826 to Feb 1827 Box 5 Archives, Raleigh, NC Most of the pages that go into this file are dated. Some are not, so the sequence of this listing may not be the exact time frames. The Lines Between Wayne and Duplin Counties Run by Britton Hood Nov 2nd day 1825 ------------- To the People of Wayne/Duplin Counties We hereby give you notice that a Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly praying them to Establish a Boundary line between Duplin & Wayne Counties In behalf of the Petitioners John F Bryan John Roberts Willis Hines Henry Sherrard Sept 1st 1826 -------------- To the Honble General Assembly of the state of North Carolina We the undersigned named as commissioners in the act of Assembly of 1824 to run and mark the dividing line between Wayne & Duplin Counties as now established by law, Report to your Honble Body that we can find no law restricting the boundaries between the said Counties 11th Sept 1826 E Slocumb John Watkins Stephen Smith J J Bryan -------------- Petition from Duplin County To the Honble The General Assembly of North Carolina The Memorial of the undersigned Citizens of the County of Duplin humbly sheweth to your Honorable body that in 1824 an act was passed appointing Commissioners to run and mark the division line between the Counties of Wayne & Duplin as then Established by law. That the Commissioners met & after looking into all the old laws ever passd upon the subject, have not been able to find any law pointing out or so demarking the line as to enable them to perform the duty assigned them. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that you will be pleased to take the subject into Consideration & pass a law establishing a division line betweeen the two Counties of Wayne & Duplin as follows,- Beginning at a Pine stump on a Ditch near John Elliot's house the corner of Sampson, Wayne & Duplin Counties running from thence South 300 poles thence South 80 E 54 W to Thunder Swamp ___ head thereof thence a direct line to the North East river at the mouth of Calf Pasture branch, then down the various courses of the North East to the mouth of Sandy run, thence a direct line to a pine near Joel Hines' well known as the Corner of Wayne Duplin & Lenoir Counties. That in Soliciting this to be Established as the Division line your Petitioners are influenced by the very natural desire of having their public duties to perform in the County where it can be done with the least inconvenience, trouble & Expense to themselves. Many of us reside nearer the Court House of Wayne than that of Duplin & the whole of us fully as near - our trading is done allmost exclusively at Newbern or at other town or stores on the Neuse. The whole of us reside at such a distance from both Waynesboro & Kenansville, as to put-it-out of our power while attending Court as Witnesses or Jurors to return to our families at nights, in such cases we should be much more certain of Meeting with Comfortable Accommodations at Wayensborough than at Kenansville Your Petitioners therefore pray that you will be pleased to pass a law establishing the dividing line between the Counties as herein before set forth & as in duty bound they will ever pray 14th Oct 1826 J N Bryan John Beerd__ Charles A Hines Yamuel J Williams H B Shenoll? M C Williams B Kornegay L Hines John Roberts Samuel Bowden Wright Smith Willis Hines William Underhill M Whitfield John Cassey ------------- Notice Is hereby given that an application will be made to the General Assembly of North Carolina at this next ___ meeting, for establishing a division line between the Counties of Duplin & Wayne Counties which will attach a small part of which has heretofore been considered Duplin County to the County of Wayne (on the north side of the North East from the moth of Calf Pastur branch down to the mouth of Landy Run) to the County of Wayne 15th Oct 1826 J J Bryan Willis Hines John Roberts Henry Sherrard -------------- Duplin County Court Before me Bryan Kornegay esquire one of the Justices of sd County John F Bryan an maketh Oath that he put refr (referenced) on one of the Pillars of the Court House of Duplin County at the time of the Session of the Superior Court fall term 1826 a copy of the within 2nd Dec 1826 J A Bryan test B Kornegay -------------- Duplin County Viz Before me Bryan Kornegay Esq one of the Justices of said County Charles A Hines who maketh oath that he set up at the Public Court House of Duplin County a copy of the within on the Tuesday after the third Monday on October last while Court was in session 22nd Dec 1826 C A Hines test B Kornegay Jr copy 15th Oct 1826 -------------- (Date of this is left off or may be referenced by one of these other short paragraphs) To the Honorable the General Assembly of North Carolina The undersigned citizens of the County of Duplin, have heard with no such suprise that an attempt will be made by a number of the citizens of the County of Wayne and some few citizens of the county of Duplin, to have run and marked the line between the two Counties materially different from what it has been supposed and recognised by the citizens of the respective Counties ever since the original divisions of the Counties. It will be sufficient for the present, to state, that the old line was marked by the water courses, betwen the waters of Neuse River and the North East. To pursue the said water courses, would make a very tortuous line. The undersigned however feel no hesitation in saying that they would most cheerfully join the Citizens of Wayne and such of the Citizens of Duplin, as live immediately upon the margin of the two Counties, to petition the General Assembly for an act to run and mark, the line in such a way as would not do unjustice to the rights and claims of either of the Counties It will be recollected that at the session of eightheen hundred and twenty four, an act was passed appointing Commissioners to run and mark the said line, according to the original division, of the Counties. Your petioners have learned with some regret that more attention has not been paid by the Commissioners, to ascertain the true line, of the division between the said Counties. Your petioners scarcely think it necessary to offer any arguments to prove that no line can be made which will do justice to the interest of both Counties, except, that which would regard the original lines and boundaries of the Counties aforesaid. Should however the line be made to run, contrary to what has been so long recognized by the Citizens of each County, to be the dividing line it will take off from the County of Duplin, a considerable portion of its revenue. The line as it is now known is nearly equidistant from the Court House of each County. The few citizens of Duplin who may wish to have themselves attached to Wayne consequently would have nearly the same distance to travel to Court as they now have. They have never experienced any inconvenience in attending our Courts on account of bad roads, deep water, or indifferent accomation. But on the contrary, they have all the advantages which high, dry roads, two ferries and good accomodation can give. Your petioners therefore humbly beg that you will weigh well the interest of our County before you make sacrifice of it, for the advancment of another J Swinson Jr D Glisson Senr A Swinson H Kainegy James Swinson Smith ___ J Gillespie George J Kodm Abraham Taylor George F Korny Wm Kornegay Thos Saely David Kornegay Jonathan Taylor Henry Swinson Lanie Outlaw Alexr Leaton David Irons Whitfield Grady Samuel Dickson Fredk Grady CB John Chambers Abraham Kornegay Solomon Jones John Winders Ralph Jernigan A Glison Bryan Branch Calvin Davis Ivey Herring John Matthews Wm Herring Samuel Swinson Sampson Grimes Isaac Kornegay Wm Creech Levi Swinson Wm McGowen Needham Johnson Jack Jones John Gainey Bryan Branch (signed twice) Everett Standby B Carroway James Winders Ben C Wilkins Bo Parker Jno Daniel Tere Pearsall Charles Grimy W Middleton Tho Kenan Stn Williams D Jones John Borcey Allen Morris Elias Faison Edw Pearsal James Lawson D L Kenan Jno Wright Jr Giles T Loftin Benj Oliver James T Rhodes John Faison Thos Hill Jr John B Wright John Miller R Miller Wm Frederick Senr John L Hill James Sullivan William L Hill W K Johnson Theof Garfield Taylor Rhodes ============================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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