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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Office of Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions, April 26, 1842.
The execution of the within bill of sale was
this day duly acknowledged before me by B.B.
Smith, the executor of the same.
[L.S.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
affixed the seal of said Court, and
subscribed my name at office in Raleigh, the
date above.
Jas. T. Marriott, Clerk.
State of North Carolina,
Wake County.
I, Wm. Boylan, presiding magistrate of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the
county aforesaid, certify that James T.
Marriott, who has written and signed the
above certificate, is Clerk of the Court
aforesaid,—that the same is in due form, and
full faith and credit are due to such his
official acts.
Given under my hand and private seal (having
no seal of office) this 26th day of April,
1842.
WM. BOYLAN, P.M. [seal.]
The State of North Carolina.
To all to whom these presents shall come,
Greeting:
Be it known, that William Boylan, whose
signature appears in his own proper hand
writing to the annexed certificate, was at
the time of signing the same and now is a
Justice of the Peace and the Presiding
Magistrate for the county of Wake, in the
State aforesaid, and as such he is duly
qualified and empowered to give said
certificate, which is here done in the usual
and proper manner; and full faith and credit
are due to the same, and ought to be given
to all the official acts of the said William
Boylan as Presiding Magistrate aforesaid.
[L.S.] In testimony whereof, I, J.M.
Morehead. Governor, Captain General and
Commander in Chief, have caused the Great
Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed,
and signed the same at the city of Raleigh,
on the 26th day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two, and in the sixty-sixth year of
the Independence of the United States.
J.M. MOREHEAD.
By the Governor.
P. REYNOLDS, Private Secretary.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly
of Raleigh, N.C., 1842
