A single sheet, written on one side, with a short docket on the back. The witness’s first name is abbreviated and read as “Zebn” (probably Zebulon) with a question mark.
Clement Stubblefield’s receipt for Charles Roach Sr.’s power of attorney to obtain Thomas Fornes’s Tennessee land – Craven County, 1813
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
State of North Carolina Craven County
March the 9th 1813
This is to Certify that I have received of Charles Roach Senr. a power of Attorney to act on, for the obtaining a certain tract of land laying on Joneses Creek in the State of Tennessee, Granted to Thomas Fornes heir of John Fornes, For which the said Charles Roach Senr. do promise to pay Clement Stubblefield, for his Services, trouble, and expences, that he the said Stubblefield may be at
test
Zeb[ulo]n [?] Terry
Clement Stubblefield
[On the back:]
Stubblefield’s Agreement
About the original
The land on “Jones-es Creek” in Tennessee had been granted to Thomas Fornes as heir of John Fornes. Grants in Tennessee were often military land warrants given for Revolutionary War service, but this paper does not say so. John Fornes also appears in the Roach land records and in the estate papers of this collection.
Source: Clement Stubblefield’s receipt for Charles Roach Sr.’s power of attorney to obtain Thomas Fornes’s Tennessee land. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder d (Legal Records, 1784–1901). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fd.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View in ECU Digital Collections: 35859.
Also from this folder: Swift Creek residents hire Turner Nelson as teacher of “Reading writing and Arithmetic” in 1823.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
