to appoint a Place within each County for Building a Court House, Prison, &c., and to lay a Tax on the Inhabitants for Defraying the Expence of Building the same. That a Commission was made out by His Excellency the Governor in Consequence of the said Law wherein Sundry Gent named in the Commission were apointed Justices for this County, but that by some accident the said Commission come up to last November Court without the seal of the Colony so that the Gent. therein appointed Justices as aforesaid Could not be Quallifyed nor Impowered to Act in the Premises. That the Petitioners humbly conceive as the Case happened, the Place where the Court House, &c., should be built could not be Settled till the Justices appointed in a New Commission for Bertie should be Quallifyed. That the Petitioners are informed that Notwithstanding the said Law Impowered the Justices of Each Respective Court to appoint the Place for Building a Court house, &c., as aforesaid (the said new Commission not being compleated as aforesaid) a very small number of the Gent. who were Justices of the County of Bertie before the said Law was passed did at the Last November Court make an order for appointing a place where the Court house, &c., should be built in this County and Laid a Tax on the Inhabitants for Defraying the Expence of Building the said Court House, &c. Whereas the Petitioners Humbly Conceive that the aforesaid Gent. had no Lawfull Power to make such an Order nor could they Receive any Authority for so doing as the Petitioners Conceive from the Reasonable Construction of the said Law. That the Petitioners humbly Conceive the Place appointed by the aforesaid Gent. is very inconvenient to a Great Majority of the Inhabitants of this County, so that should the said order be Executed much the greater part of this County would be injured thereby. The Petitioners therefore humbly pray the Court to take the Premises into their Consideration. and present the great inconveniency that might otherwise arise from the aforesaid Order made as aforesaid in such manner as to the Court shall seem Convenient, &c. T. Barker, &c. Whereupon it is Considered and adjudged by the Court here that this Court have power to hear the said Petition and the same is refer'd till to morrow for Consideration. And now (to-wit the 11th day of Feb'y, 1741) the Court (to-wit as before) taking into Consideration the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of this County, relating to the Errecting of a Court House, &c. It is ordered that the Last Court's Order for building the Court house, &c., be reversed, from which order William Cathcart & Peter West, Esqs., Dissented. And it is further Considered by the Court (Except the Dissenters aforesaid). That near Red bud Branch is the most proper place for building a Court House, prison & stocks. And it is ordered that James Castellaw, Thomas Whitmell and John Harrell, Esqs., or any two of them be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to Contract with Workmen to build the said Court House, Prison & stocks at the Place aforesaid and to purchase Two acres of Land at the Place aforesaid for the use aforesaid. And that the said Court House be of the Dementions of thirty-two feet Long and Twentyfour feet wide and a Scemi Circle and a prison of the Dementions of Twenty-four feet Long and twelve feet wide and other ways in proportion. And that Publick advertisements be sett up for the undertaking said work and that a Levy of Two Shillings proclamation money for each Tythable in this County be Collected by the Sheriff and paid into the hands of the Comm'rs aforesaid (deducting Commissions) for the uses aforesaid. But that no collection be made of the said Tax for the uses aforesaid till the time appointed by Law for Payment of Publick Taxes. And Thomas Jones attorney for William Catheart and Peter West Justices of the Last Court and Benjamin Hill, Peter West and Thomas Hansford Commissioners appointed by the last Court for erecting a Court House, &c., at Stony Creek, Prayed an Appeal from the Last order to the General Court. The Court taking the former motion into Consideration Conceive that no such appeal can be Granted, because when the order of November Court was obtained, Capt. Needham Bryan one of the Gent. of that Court Publicly declared that he Never gave his Consent to Errecting a Court House at Stony Creek, but that his Design in Signing the Docketts was that all other Publick affairs might not be kept undone, and is now of the same opinion for which Reasons the said appeal is Rejected. Bertie County, Ss. Certified under my hand & seal the 25th day of October Anno Domini, 1742. (Seal) North Carolina, Ss. JOHN WYNNS, Clk. George the Second by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, &c. To the Keepers of our Peace and our Justices assigned to hear and Determine Divers Trespassers and other Malfessances in the County of Bertie & to every of them. Greeting:. We willing for Certain Cause to be Certified of all and singular the orders, Decrees or Judgments of whatsoever Kind against the Statutes of our Kingdom of England or of the acts of Assembly of our said province, Relating to the settling or fixing a place for the New Court House to be built at for the said County of Bertie. Do command you and every of you that all the orders Decrees or Judgments aforesaid with all things touching the same by whatsoever name, the same is named you send before our Chief Justice and his Associates at our next General Court to be held for our said province at the Court House in Edenton on the Last Tuesday in July next under your Seals or the Seals of one of you Together with this writ that we may cause to be further done thereupon what of Right and according to the Laws and Customs of England and this Province we shall see fit to be Done. Witness, John Montgomery, Esq., our Chief Justice of our Province at Edenton the 22 day of April Anno Domini 1742. J. MONTGOMERY, C. J. A MAJORS COMMISSION 1702. North Carolina, Ss. By the Honble Landgrave Robt. Daniel, Esq., Lieutenant Generall, Vice Admirall & Deputy Governor of North Carolina. I, out of the Confidence and trust I have in the Integrity, Loyalty, Care, Courage and good Conduct of your (name illegible) Doe hereby Commissionate, Constitute and appoint you (name illegible) Major of a Regiment of foot Soldiers belonging to the Honble Collnll (name illegible faded out) to be raised within that part of the Province of Carolina that lyes to the Northward of the Town or settlement of the Nation of Indians called *Keeahwees whereof you are to take a list of their names and return a coppy of the same to me and see they have sufficient armes and Ammunition for service according to law whenever they shall be soe required to serve for the defense and peace of that part of the province aforesd. You are duly according to Law and as often as you find Conveniency to exercise them in Armes according to Military Discipline and true rules of Warr Commanding and requiring all inferior Officers and Soldiers to yield you due obedience and in case any meeting, rebellion, Insurrection, Conspiracy or Sedition is discovered to you you are thereupon to raise what force you think fitt in that part of the Province aforesd for suppressing it and apprehending the Delinquents and for the better effecting thereof (if occasion should soe happen) and you are with such fortce to take all advantages and opportunityes to oppose, fight, kill, seize and take them and make report thereof to me with all speed and you are to observe all orders, rules and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me yor Governr and Commander-in-Chief or from yor Superior Officers. This to continue untill I shall signify my pleasure to the Contrary. Given under my hand and Seale in the Second year of his Majesty's Reigne Anno Domini (date gone).) *The Keeah wees is a among the Indian tribes. Signature (faded out). tribe of Indians which we have not heretofore found Where were they located? ACCOUNT AGAINST BROMPTON, ONSLOW CO., N. C. 1742. Brampton To Jno. Lennox, Dr. May ye 18th, 1742. To 2 Bushels of wheat. Old Cæsar a Shirt made.. French Ceasar Little Ceasar ... Jack, Jessy, Dublin & Sambo, each. Old Bess, Blind Bess, Aba, Jeny & Nancy. Brompton Plantation was the home of Gov. Gabriel Johnston, the account is evidently for making Clothes for his negroes, it was so typical of the "old plantation days," the Editor could not resist its publication. AN ACCOUNT IN 1699 SHOWING PRICES OF GOODS. Sept. 11th, 1699. Thos. Houghton, Dr. To 1 pr wo Wortsed Stockings. To 1 Carolina Hatt... To 1 pr Blanketts. To 1 pr French falls. ... £. s. d .10 04 08 .00 13 00 .01 08 00 .00 06 00 .00 06 00 .00 16 00 ..00 04 00 To 4 yards of Garlix. .00 11 101 WAR DECLARED AGAINST THE CORE & NYNEE INDIANS, 1703. "I have resolved and declared the sd Nations of Core Nynee to be publick Enemies to all her Majesties Subjects. And for ye carrying on of the sd Warr to the Destruction of the said Core & Nynee Indyans The Honble Deputy Governor is entrusted by the Honble the Lds proprietors Deputys to use such means & methods as his Hon. shall think expedient & most necessary by raising such men in armes & in pressing such Sloops, boats & Canoes with provision & other necessaryes as his Honr shall think fitt & requisite." This paper is torn at the bottom so that we could not give the two lines at the beginning but the figures 1703 remain plain. SLOOP DUBARLUS, CAPT. ROBERT STARKEY, SEIZED IN 1698. "Whereas ye Sloop Dubarlus plantation built Robert Starkey Master hath lately arrived from Bostown in New England into this Governmt of North Carolina and now riding in Albemarle river or sound in ye precinct of Chowan and hath laden on board her and imported from Bostown aforesd a parcel or parcels Uropian goods as by her Corkquetts appears and it being contrary to an Act of Parliament made and in yt case provided in ye fifteenth year of ye Reign of King Charles ye Second together wth Severall other acts to ye same purpose providded which forbids ye Importation of any Goods of ye product of Urope into any of his Majesties plantations or Collonys Except in ye same bottom wch they were transported out of Urope in wee there fore yr subscribers doe on ye behalf of our Sovereign Lord ye King; ye Honble ye Deputy Govern'r or Comdr in Chief of this Country and allso on our own behalf as In formers make this Information unto you ye Honble Thomas Harvey, Esq., and Depty Govr of this place yt ye sd Sloop and Goods is by ye act before declared seisable Craving yt ye same may be proceeded against as ye law in yt case provides as witness our hands this 17th day of Aprill Ano Do 1698. WM. WILKINSON, The vessel above was lying at Anchor between Sandy Point and Bluff Point on Albemarle Sound. Europe seems then to have been Spelled Urope. |