Thomas Reg/Wm Sr/Wm Jr Welborn/NC, 1772
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Posted by Ann Beason Gahan on February 10, 1999 at 15:16:05:
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Colonial Records of NC (Vol. IX, pp. 25-226)
contain the following excerpt from a Manuscript in the Office of the
Secretary of State, dated 13 March 1772: Counties of
Orange and Guilford, State of NC, 25 Aug 1771
"To all persons whom this may Concern, Know ye, that Whereas Thomas
Welborn has lived in the neighborhood of Sandy Creek
near at hand about fifteen years in the counties and province aforesaid,
it is requested of his friends and acquaintances,
a letter of recommendation which we the subscribers hereof, do hereby
certify, the above said Thomas Welborn to be a man of
Justice and Honest Integrity in his dealings and conversation, neither
known, nor suspected to be Guilty of Fraudulent Practices,
but contrary-wise, Upright in his Generation and a true Loyal Tenant to
his Majesty, Excepting the Late Insurrection and Rebellion
as did arise in the County aforesaid (The Battle of Alamance) and given
under our hands the Day and year first above written.
This appeal in behalf of THOMAS WELBORN, who had been outlawed by the
Royal Governor, was signed by WM. WELBORN, JUN., and
eighteen others. In the above-mentioned manuscript, under date of the
13th of March 1772, is a petition addressed to 'His Excellency,
Josiah Martin, Esqur., His Majesty's Capt. General and Governor in Chief
in and over Said Province,' . . . TO CATCH FISH IN DEEP
RIVER . . . ' Among the signers of this petition were: WM WELBORN, SEN,
and WM. WELBORN, JUN.' "
(THIS PLACES OUR WILLIAM WELBORN [HUSBAND/WIDOWER OF ANN CRABTREE] AS
BEING ALIVE ON 17 MAR 1772.) abg