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- NOTE 1./ Duplin Deeds, Book 3A, p. 493, 1 Aug 1808 John HOUSTON to Lewis Ashton THOMAS, for $800 lawful money, 400A on the ES of the Northeast of Cape Fear River, beg. the sd. HOUSTON's share of his father's lands & laid off as such 5 Oct 1807. Wit- Sam HOUSTON, Joseph T. RHODES. Oct. Ct. 1808. (Millie Note: Wit Sam Houston is brother to John Houston)
NOTE 2./ Petition to Establish Town of Hallsborough, Duplin County, NC - Court Records, 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
et all ......
NOTE 3./ 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 husband 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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