I greatfully thank John B. Hagler of Raleigh NC for discovering and sharing the following document that resides in an obscure collection of undated General Assembly Session Petition Records at North Carolina Archives. He and Miles Philbeck of Bostick and Chapel Hill transcribed the nearly decayed signature lists. Knowing Cabarrus County grew from a diverse community led by Scotch Irish and German Lutheran,the task was made especially difficult in bringing life to signatures written in differing languages. We encourage you to seek out copies of the original and rejoice as you peer at your ancestor's committment in building our American past The original is housed at North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh NC and copies can be found at the Cabarrus and Stanly County Public Libraries.
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To the honorable the general assembly of the state of North Carolina the humble petition of a number of inhabitants of the county of Cabarrus humbly showeth that whereas an act of assembly passed 1792 for dividing the county of Mecklenburg and has in the Sixth Section of said act appointed a certain number of men to fix on the most central place for erecting the public buildings in said county and accordingly the said men Commissioners [m]et and a majority of them agreed and fixed on a place (TORN) center of said county on the lands of William (TORN) __________ ________ being disagreeable to _________ (TORN) of the said Commissioners the said Commissioners ther(TORN) to lay down the business to the people at large the inhabitants of said county, Then a public (TORN) was held for the place and was kept open three days and there was a majority of 77 votes for the land of Sd.William Voils and the commissioners that was appointed to sperintend the buildings have have refused to act by which means your petitioners labor under some difficulty for want of our Courthouse, prison and stocks, we do humbly pray that your knowledgeable body would sanction the aforesaid vote by your (TORN)______ _______ _____ ______given (TORN) petition at our last quartersession by advertising the same at our present place of holding court Your granting this the matter of our prayers will lay us under the strongest obligations to thankfulness and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray |
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cut off script at top edge indicates there was once more
Frederick Plyler Jacob Iferdt
George McReading Pheter _ochur
Tobias Klots Charles Parke
Junadan Hertzel John Long
Adam Derr John Readling
Jacob Derr Jacob Barenhart
Peter Missenheimer Nickles Wagnar
Leonard Kagel
John File Narting Be er? Kasper _inger? Ending line of petition cut off and at the top of the page does not piece or match back to the surviving front page. This indicates the petition was duplicated for collecting signatures at different sites. It also indicates there was likely a good bit more to the signature lists that have not survived. Thankfullness and your petitioners as in Duty Bound |