Petition of Robert Hamilton for Resurvey of Land

Petition of Robert Hamilton for Resurvey of Land -
Dobbs County, NC
To His Excellency the Governour in Council ~
The Humble Petition of Robert Hamilton Sheweth ~
That your Petitioner purchased from Simon Bright, Senior, 200 acres of land lying in Dobbs County on the South side of Stony Town Creek about Sixteen years agoe, and has been settled upon the said land and paid the Quit Rents during the sd. time

Now so it is, may it please Your Honours, Simon Bright the Younger has been persuading your petitioner of the said land, and tells him that His Land is where some poor people has been settled these Eighteen or Nineteen years, which would not leave your petitioner above Forty Acres of the land
purchased of the said Simon Bright Sen. as aforesaid, occasioned by an Error or mistake of the Surveyors returning different courses than the marked Trees will make appear, which can be proved by the oath of Francis Hodges, uncle to Simon Bright the Younger, who carried the chain round the said land about Thirty two years agoe when it was surveyed for the patent.

Your Petitioner therefore Humbly prays for a warrant of Resurvey of the said Land agreeable to the marked trees, and further prays that He may have his patent altered agreeable to the bounds Trees. And your Patitioner as in duty Bound will ever pray etc.

New Bern 27th February 1773
Robert Hamilton

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