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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
December 06, 1771 - December 09, 1771
Volume 09, Page 66

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]
COUNCIL JOURNALS.


At a Council held in the Council Chamber at New Bern December 6th 1771
Present
His Excellency the Governor
The Honble James Hasell Esqr
The Honble John Rutherford Esqr
The Honble Lewis Henry DeRosset Esqr
The Honble John Sampson Esqr
The Honble Alex McCulloch Esqr
The Honble William Dry Esqr
The Honble Samuel Cornell Esqr
The Honble Sr Nt Dukenfield Bart Esqr
and
The Honble Marmaduke Jones Esqr

Read and passed sundry patents for Land from No 425 to 475 inclusive.

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At a Council Monday the 9th December

Present as before.

His Excellency ordered that Commissions of the Peace issue the following Counties Viz Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Brunswick, Bute, and Carteret, to John Rowan to ascertain &c.