Petition, NC, Montgomery-Anson, 1779 ] State of North Carolina ] Met in General Assembly ] ] Petition of the ] S. January 19, 1779 inhabitants of Anson for ] a division of county ] east & west line ] ] To the honorable, the members of the Senate and House of Commons met in General Assembly the petition of the inhabitants of the upper end of the county of Anson humbly sheweth that your petitioner's labors under great hardships and disadvantages in crossing the many bad water courses in traveling to attend the county courts of the said county as jurors and to attend at general musters and elections and other publick meetings held at the courthouse of the said county by living remote from the said courthouse it being situated in the lower end of the said county, which at the time the courthouse was situated there was the center of the bulk of the inhabitants then settled in the said county, but as the upper end of the said county within a few years has grown populous and is settled with a sufficient number of taxable inhabitants to support and maintain a county expense & c. [etc.] and at this time the county of Anson is from north to south upwards of 100 miles in length and from east to west about sixty miles through which the river Pee Dee runs in angular form so that a division by the said river would relieve none of the hardships and disadvantages which your petitioner's labor under as the said river runs from north west to south east through the said county and in the south of the south of the said county from north to south, river exceeds twenty miles on an east line to the line of the Cumberland county. Wherefore your petitioner's humbly prays that the of Anson be divided by the road landing from Munros [Monroe's] Bridge on Drownding [Drowning] Creek to Colson's Fery [Ferry] on Pee Dee River, and, that at a point in the said road opisite [opposite] the mouth of Rocky River the said line to be, begun and run a west line crossing the river Pee Dee through the mouth Rocky River and into the dividing line between this county and Mecklinburg [Mecklenburg] county, and that all the lands now contained within the bounds of Anson county north of the said line be a distinct county and have all the privileges that any other county in this state are entitled to and your petitioner's sall [shall] in duty bound every pray &c [etc.]. Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Petition, NC, Montgomery-Anson, 1779 [NOTE: Original Document has names listed in 3 columns.] William Picket Moses Loftin Benjamin Baird Julius Nichols Thomas Picket Ethelred Harris Joshua Gross Howell Parker Henry Mounger Thomson Clement Sias Billingsby West Harris Joseph Henderson George Tucker Joshua Carter John Baker James Gray Roland Harris Zedekiah Ledbetter Nathaniel Bell George Newmane William Ballard Stephen Treadwell William Clements [Clement] Lawrence Banckson [Bankson] West Harris Isaac Callaway John Golahon [Gollehon] John Callaway Buckner Harris Coalbe Randle [Colby] Ase Golahen [Gollehon] William Gray Samuel Williams Gilbert Simpson Joseph Bell Hanrey Rone [Henry Roan] William Denman James Bankson George Hirke [Kirke] George Rumage [Rummage] Jesse Clifton Joh [John] Lunn Edward Cornwil [Cornwill] Peter Jackson Edward Hurley William Jackson Rusel [Russell] Curtis Boston Smith Nathan Coggan James Lambert Arthur Harris George Tucker John Coggan Thomas Pitman Moody Ingram William Pitman Jacob Banckson [Bankson] Thomas Van Dyke John Rogers Samuel Carter Daniel Banckson [Bankson] Matthew Gordon James Rogers Jr. John Martin Peter Bankston [Bankson] Moses Carter Henry Harris William Wilson Arter [Arthur] Harris Joseph McLester .. son of Henry Harris Charles Jones John Jefrey [Jefry Jeffrey] Buckner Kimball Josias Wright Darby Horley [Henley] Matthew Harrald [Matthew Harrold, John (X) Jordon Matthew Harold] David Penington George Shankle Moses Curtis Humphry Ballard William Bankson Drury Bennett Job Callaway William Ballard Charles Gairdon [Gordon] Mark Bennett David Harke [Harkey] Cary Prichard Thomas Banckson [Bankson] Charles Ledbetter William Nobel {Senior?} William McGriger [McGregor] Simpson Nobel John Lankester [Lancaster] John Bankson John Harris William Lofton Barlett McGriger [Bartlett McGregor] Richard Parker John Walker Thomas Barnes Randle Jackson Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Petition, NC, Montgomery-Anson, 1779 John Randle Jacob Shankle Isaac Allen Thomas Simson West Harris William Nobles [Nobel] Sr. .. son of Henry Harris Andrew Dennes [Dennis] Adam Rone Nathaniel Dinnes [Dennis] James Johnson William Allton Moses Gorden [Gordon] James Runnels James Bryant William Morris Josias Randle Thomas Newman Joseph Vickry [Vickery] Harberd Sugs [Harbert Herbert Suggs] Page 3 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Petition, NC, Montgomery-Anson, 1779 ###### # # ##### ####### # # ##### ####### # # # # ## ## # # # ## # # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ###### # # ##### ####### # # ### ##### ####### # # Transcribed from original documents by Brent R. Brian & Martha M. Brian. This document and others can be found on our website: BMGEN We claim COPYLEFT on the documents that we publish that are our original work. COPYLEFT “rules” can be reviewed on the web site: GNU Free Documentation License In short, use what you like. But if you use our stuff, mention us as the source. Brent R. Brian Martha M. Brian BrianMitchellGenealogy@gmail.com Page 4 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK **