Minutes of the Lower House of the North Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina. General Assembly
October 30, 1766 - December 02, 1766
Volume 07, Pages 342-423
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Saturday, November 8th 1766

Pasquotank County appeared took the oaths by Law appointed for his qualification, repeated and subscribed the test, and took his seat in the House.

Mr Charlton presented the petition of Solomon Ewell complaining of the elopement of his Wife Lydia and her living in adultery with one Samuel Colten of Northampton County, and praying an Act may pass to dissolve the Marriage of the said Solomon and Lydia; and moved that a Committee be appointed to examine into the truth of the several allegations in the said petition contained, which was objected to; on which the motion was made and question put, if the said Committee be appointed or not and carried in the affirmative, and Mr Fanning, Mr Charlton, Mr Dawson, Mr Bradford, and Mr Harris are appointed a Committee agreeable to the said motion; and that they have power to send for persons and papers, and report their proceedings thereon to the next Session of Assembly,

North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900
Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, 1760-1800, Northampton County, page 205
1783 COTTEN, LYDIA, RODERICK and ELIZABETH