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- NOTE 1./ Duplin County, NC - Court Records
Petition to Establish Town of Hallsborough, Duplin Co., Nov. 1818
Contributed by Grace Williamson TURNER.
Transcribed by Sloan Mason
Source: Petition to Establish Town of Hallsborough, Duplin Co., Nov. 1818
General Assembly, Session Records, November-December 1818.
To The Honorable, The General Assembly of the State of North Carolina,
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Duplin. Respectfully Sheweth that the Lands on the Lower Side of Limestone Rock near the Mouth of the East Side of the North East of Capefear River is a healthy Situation and well calculated for the Establishment of Several Stores which might lend Greatly to the Corsetiere and advantage of Great part of said County.
Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable Body will take the Subject into Consideration and pass a law to Establish a Town on the lands of William HALL, Senr. and sons Situated as above Stated by the Name of Hallsborough, and your Petitioner as in duty bound will Ever Pray.
November 1818.
John BISHOP, Thomas KENADY, A. Newkirk, Lewis JONES, Wm. PEACOCK ............Edward HOUSTON , .............John HOUSTON ...............Merril WILLIAMS, Danl. SOUTHERLAND, Junr., Merit MANNING, William HALL, Sr., Lewis HALL, Abraham HALL, Nicholas HALL, Joseph T. RHODES, A. PEARSALL, John CARR, Hillary BISHOP, Thomas P. HALL
Felix KENEDY, James SIMPSON, Levin WALLER, Soloman SOUTHERLAND, Samuel SOTHERLAND
Alexr SOUTHERLAND, David BROCK, Martin MANING
A Bill to Establish a Town on the Lands of William HALL, Senr. & Sons, in the County
of Duplin.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina, and it is herby enacted by the Authority for the same, that Nicholas HALL, Thomas P. HALL, John FARIOR, Nathan WALLER, Archibald MAXWELL, & Samuel HOUSTON, Thomas KENNEDY (crossed out) be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for the purpose of laying off a town on the lands of William HALL, Senr. & sons, on the lower side of Limestone Creek near the Mouth on the East Side of the North East of Cape Fear River, in the County of Duplin, by the name of Hallsborough, and it shall be the duty of said Commissioners or a
Majority of them, as soon or may be to lay off & exhibit a fair plan of said Town in acre or half acre lots, on such part of the lands of the said William HALL, Senr. & Sons, as they or a Majority of them may think proper; and when the said lots shall be so laid off, the same shall be at the entire will & --- disposal of the aforesaid Commissioners, and the money arising from the sale of said lots shall be applied to
the use of the said William HALL, Senr. & Sons. Provided that the consent of the Proprietors of the Land shall first have been obtained. Provided, further that the said William HALL, Senr. & Sons, shall at and before the laying out & selling the lots of the said Town, execute to the Commissioners aforesaid a good and sufficient title in fee simple to the lands upon which the said Town of Hallsborough is to be
established.
In Senate, Dec. 1818, Read the first Time and passed, By Order, HENDERSON, Clrk.
In Senate Dec. 11, 1818, Read the first time and passed, By Order, Robert WILLIAMS, C.S.
In. H. COMMONS 23rd. Dec. 1818. Read the second time, amended and passed. By Order, HENDERSON, Clk.
In Senate, Dec. 24th, 1818, Read the second time and amended and passed. By Order, Robert WILLIAMS
In Commons 25 Dec. 1818. Read the third time and passed By Order. Honorable Comm.
In Senate Dec. 25th, 1818. Read the third time and passed and Ordered to be ----By Order. Robt. WILLIAMS, C.S.
A Bill to Establish a Town on the Land of William HALL, Senr. & Sons in the County of Duplin.
NOTE 2./ Minutes of the committee appointed "to divide the estate of Samuel Houston
dec'd so as to ascertain each claimant's share of said Estate". "Total amount of this Negroe property, Do[llars] 6,840"
Do Cts
Valued toMrs Houston Sundry Articles at 185 - 50
Miss Ann Houston ditto 82 - 0
Samuel Houston ditto 83 - 0
John Houston ditto 73 - 50
William Hall ditto 151 - 50
Felix Rhodes ditto 156 - 50
The above are the six claimants or heirs to the estate of Samuel Houston. They are by implication: his wife Elizabeth, his daughter Ann, his sons Samuel and John, and the husbands of his married daughters. William Hall is the husband of Mary Houston and John Felix Rhodes is the husba
nd of Dorothy Houston.
Duplin Co, NC, Miscellaneous Records, NC Archives, Raleigh, NC: An Order for a Mill on Cypress Creek. Joseph Grimes. Report filed April Term 1787.
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