Maury County TN Archives Court.....Watts Heirs, James June 9, 1813
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Robert Foster rfoster37@cox.net October 20, 2011, 2:45 pm

Source: Maury Co., Tennessee Will Boook
Written: June 9, 1813
Recorded: June 9, 1813

 Maury Co., Tennessee Will Book Vol. 1, Pg 134  

A Power of atto. from heirs of James Watts, dec’d to Daniel Killian.  

Know all men by these presents that we John McClelland and Rosanna his wife
alias Watts, James Woods and wife Jane alias Watts, Margaret Watts and Ann
Pitchey daughter of Ann Pitchey alias Watts, all of Iredell county and state
of North Carolina do by these presents appoint our worthy friend and Brother
in law Daniel Killian who intermarried with Mary Watts, also of Iredell County
our true and lawful attorney for us in our name and steads to petition the
Constituted authorities of the State of Tennessee for our shares of a tract of
twelve Hundred acres of land Granted by the State to James Watts decd on the
waters of Duck River & State of Tennessee & when divided to sell lease or to
what ever the said Killian Sees proper on the premises or to sell undivided
the said Share or Shares or an attorney or attorneys one of more under him to
appoint, and if the said land is in possession of others to sue for in any way
legally dispossess & to fix our Seals to any instrument or instruments
necessary in the completion of the above business or to convey or lease or do
all and every thing that our attorney shall deem proper and right upon the
premises above mentioned & to be of as full on affect  as we could do were we
personally present in witness whereof we have here unto set our hands and
seals this 9th day of June 1813.

Woods and Ann Pitchey dau of Ann Pitchy alias Watts all of interlined before 
signed

Signed and acknowledged before us 
J. W. C. McClelland (seal)
Rosy McClelland (seal)
James Woods (seal)
Joseph Guy JP
Geo Robinson JP

Jean Woods (seal)
Margaret (her + mark) Watts (seal)
Polly Killion (seal)
Anne Pitchey (seal)

On the back of the above power of attorney was written 

I (-----space-----) one of the acting Justices of the peace of Iredel County
do certify that John McClelland & Rosanna his wife James Woods and  Jane his
wife and Margaret Watts personally appeared before me and the within power of
attorney as witness my hand and seal this day of June 1813

Additional Comments:
I've posted this information to the Iredell County, NC GenWeb Archives records 
because, even though the lands described herein lay in Maury Co., Tennessee, 
the people mentioned all resided in Iredell Co. at the time the power of 
attorney was written. This appears to be the action that prompted John Watts 
to hire an attorney to recover said lands from his siblings. The reasoning 
behind the power of attorney are unclear to me. I do not know what prompted 
the heirs of James Watts to take this legal action. The best guess is that 
someone (John Watts?) had taken possession of the 1200 acres in Tennessee and 
these people were attempting to take it back.

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