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Granville Co., NC -1785 Seizure of George Alston Property

1785 Seizure - Property of George Alston


Malachi Reeves – Seizure of George Alston Property



Minutes of the North Carolina Senate
North Carolina. General Assembly
November 19, 1785 - December 29, 1785
Volume 20, Pages 1-117
Monday, 12 December, 1785

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith, and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

General Rutherford, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of George Alston, reported as followeth, vizt.:

It appearing to your Committee that Doubt may in future arise with respect to Mr. Alston’s being entitled to the privileges of a free Citizen; they recommend his case as a singular one and that he be restored to the rights of Citizenship.

That it also appears to your Committee the said George Alston did before his departure to Europe give unto a certain Mary Alston Bell a Tract or Parcel of land lying in Granville County, containing about two hundred and seventy Acres, which the said George purchased of Malachi Reeves and Ann Hopkins; also a negro boy named Cæsar; on which your Committee recommend that a Bill be brought in to vest in the said Mary Alston Bell the title of the said Lands and Negro.

Griffith Rutherford, Ch.


Friday, 16 December 1785

General Rutherford, from the Committee to whom was recommitted the Memorial of George Alston, reported as followeth, vizt.:

It appearing to your Committee, that doubts may arise in future with respect to Mr. Alston being entitled to the privileges of a free Citizen, we recommend his case as a singular one, and that he be restored to all the rights of Citizenship; that it also appears to your Committee, the said George Alston did before his departure to Europe, give unto a certain Mary Alston Bell, a Tract or Parcel of Land lying in Granville County, containing about two hundred and seventy Acres, which the said George purchased of Malachi Reeves and Ann Hopkins, also a negro Boy named Cæsar; on which your Committee recommend that a Bill be brought in to vest in the said Mary Alston Bell the title of the said Land and Negro; observing always that nothing herein is meant to restore the said Alston to any Estate or any part thereof forfeited to the public by any of the confiscation Laws. All which is submitted.

Griffith Rutherford, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith, and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.



Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1785
North Carolina. General Assembly
November 19, 1785 - December 29, 1785
Volume 24, Page 759

An Act Vesting Certain Property Lying and Being in Granville County in Mary Alston Bell, in Fee Simple.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, a gift was made by George Alston to Mary Alston Bell of certain lands and one negro boy named Caesar, which in the opinion of some of the citizens of this State have since become confiscated: For prevention of which,

I. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and by the authority thereof, That the title of certain tracts of land in Granville county, which the said Alston purchased of Malachi Reaves and Anne Hopkins about two hundred and seventy acres, and also a certain negro named Caesar, be and is hereby vested in the said Mary Alston Bell, her heirs and assigns forever, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; saving nevertheless to all persons, all rights to the property aforesaid not claimed under the said George Alston. (Passed December 29, 1785.)

Source

Public Domain, Documenting the American South, University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr20-0001; http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr24-0016#p24-759.


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