Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-11-24


PETITION OF HI. X. BURGWYN d WIFE.
7Othe Honorable the Senate and House. of Rpressntgtire
Of the G0namonOeaua of Massachusetts, i" general Cort
Respectfully represent your petitioners HENRY KING
BURGWYN and ANNE C. BBRGwYN. wife Of the said
Henry of Raleigh, in the county of Wake and State of
North-Carolna that prior to their marriage in the Com.
monweah Massachusetts mar ely on the twenty
day of November, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight
they made and entered into an ndenure in which II was
provided among other things that the property Ut the said
Anne Burgwyn should be held for certain uses and
therein mentioned and further declared and
agreed in said instrument that it should be lawful for tbs
trustees time during the joint lives of the said Anne
and Henry and the life of the survivor with the consent
of the said Anne and Henry or the survivor Of them to
aforesaid to in exchange the premises or any
part thereof for lieu of any other lands of equal value
in the opinion of the said trustees and also to make sale
and dispose of convey in exchange all any of the
lands be purchased taken in exchange with full
by sale Of given in exchange with all any part or
parts of the premises and to sign and give proper receipts
for the same But also expressly agreed, declared
and directed that all monies which should be received b
upon any such sale Sales for equality of exchanges
should from time 10 ne with all convenient speed be ia
vested by she trustees by and with the and appro
baton of the said Henry and Anne the survivor the
purchase of other lands tenements heredtameuts TO be
situated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that the
lands purchased taken in exchange should forthwith
be settled and conveyed in such that they might
thenceurth remain 10 the TO the same trusts
and for the ntents and purposes and subject to the
powers of sale and exchange provisions and agree
mens, expressed in said instrument concerning
lands which should exchanged
nearly thereby contingencies would permit And
your petitioners further show that during nearly the whole
of their ed life they have resided without the limits
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the health OF
the said Anne Burgwyn such that she canro safely
reside within said Commonwealth account Of the Sc
verify Of the climate And petitioners further show
that they have child Of the of tweEtyone years and
five children under that all residents of Raleigh IN
said State of Nort GrOinH. And your petitioners fur
her represent that the restrictions said marriage settle
ment that the proceeds of land sold exchanged shall be
invested in other ardS tenements heedameus to be
situated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is attend
cd with great Inconvenience only to the said trustees
but petitioners who have suffered great loss there
by, as they prepared To show.
And petitioners further show. that the trustees I'M
der said marriage settlement William Dehon and James
Read. Esqrs of the City of Boston, BY whom your petit
TONERS advised that the only remedy the premises
by a resnlve of the Legislature of the Commonwealth.
Wherefore they pray that the powers of the said trus
tees and Of their be enlarged that they
be authorized invest such proceeds in proper!
they may deem expedent subject TO the approval
Of petitioners and to the other provisions Of said
marriage settlement.
H. K. BURGWYN,
A. G.. BURGWYN.
P. W. CHANDLER,
Attorney for the Petitioners
Boston, Mass, Oct, l6, 1860. 80
hereby approve of the publication of the above petition
in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in the North Carolina
Standard =
OLIVER WARNER,
Sect'y of the Commonwealth.
SEcRETARY's OFFICE, Boston. ~
November r. 1860. 94-t.