LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Misc. - Petition for Name Change, James Phillips, 
1797.

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PETITION TO CHANGE NAME, JAMES PHILLIPS

From General Assembly Session Records - Nov-Dec 1797 - Box 2


To The Honorable General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

The Petition of James Phillips, Jr. of the County of Lenoir humbly -- to 
your Honorable body that he was the natural son of a certain Sarah 
Kilpatrick and born some considerable time as your petitioner is 
informed before a marriage took place between his mother and James 
Phillips the reputed father of your petitioner.  Your petitioner further 
shows to your honorable body that he has already been called and known 
and transacted all his business by the above name.  But your petitioner 
being informed that there might possibility hereafter arise some 
disspute and he be injured in his battle to property which he had 
already a right hereafter acquire by that name is therefore induced to 
apply to your honorable body and pray that you will pass an Act 
confirming him in the name which he has heretofore born and granting him 
such other relief as is usual in similar cases and your petitioner as in 
duty bound shall ----pray.


[NOTE: Sarah Kilpatrick was the widow of Easley Kilpatrick. Easley had 
only recently died when this petition was made. James Phillips was 
probably the son of Thomas and Isabelle Phillips. In the Dobbs Cross 
Index there are two conveyances - one between James Phillips to James 
Phillips  and one from James Phillips to Reubin Phillips. It is thought, 
but not proven, the father, James, was giving land to his two sons.--
MMM]