Dobbs, Edgecombe & Wayne Counties, NC - Court Records

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Grace Williamson Turner
Edited by Guy Potts

Source: General Assembly Session Records. November-December 1787


November 29, 1787

To the Honble the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

  The petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants residing in the upperend
of the Counties of Dobbs, Edgcombe and Wayne Humbly Sheweth

    That whereas the great distance from the place of their residence, to
the Court House of the County to which they respectively belong renders
their attendance on Court Musters and Elections inconvenient and expensive
They therefore pray that a Seperate County be Estabished by the following
lines, to witt, beginning on great Cotentnea Creek at Craven County line,
running thence to Pitt County line, thence with Pitt County line to
Edgecombe County line from thence with Pitt County line to Edgecombe 
County line from thence a direct line to Nash County line at Thomas
Vivrett's, thence with Nash County line to great Cotentnea Creek, from
thence a direct line to Peter Peacock's bridge on Nawhunta, from thence
a direct line to Tyson's Marsh ___ above James Wood's plantation, thence
down the various courses of the sd run to great Cotentnea Creek, from 
thence down the Creek with meanders thereof to the beginning 

       And as in duly bound they will pray

Eth. Ruffin         Marmaduke Brantly        Arther Dew
Noah Bearfoot       Absalom Barnes           Asa Daniell
John Woodard        Eysom Evins              Isaac Farmer
John Evans          Lewis Bandy              Ephraim Barnes
Cha Coleman         William House            Ariel Barnes
Elijah Coleman      John Barnes              Joseph Martin
Joshua Woodard      Jacob Page               Matthew Turner
Jas Bogue           William White Senr       Joseph Daniel
Jessey Simons       Richard Davis            Arthur Cook
Isaac Morris        John Walton              Ebenz Whitney
Nathan Johnson      Nathan Daniel            Stephen Daniel
Joshua Davis Senr   Robert Coleman           Moses Rontree
Mallichi Brantly    Joel Baggitt             Absalom Browne
Jonathan Tart       Elmathan Tart            James Tart
John Amosom         James Barnes             Joseph Daniel
Jethro Barnes       David Daniell            William Amason
James Jonson        Eli Amason               Samuel Mayo
John Singleton      Daniel Barfield          John Bulock
Ephriam Mayo        Robert Singleton         Joseph Mayo
Edward Mayo         Henry Amson              Daniel Jonson
Thomas Amason

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