Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-11
PETITION OF II. X. BURGWYN 8 WIFE

Toe Honorable the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in general Court
assembled.
BIRGWYN and ANNE G. BGRGWYN. wife Of the said
Henry, of Raleigh in the county of Wake and State of
NerthCarolna that prior to their marriage in the Com
monweath of Massachusetts, ely the twenty
day Of November A. D. eighteen hundred and hiryeght
they made and entered into an indenture in which
provided among other things that the property Of the said
Anne G. Burgwyn should be held for certain uses and
trusts therein mentioned and it further declared and
agreed in said instrument that should be lawful for the
trustees at 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
SELL dispose of and convey all any of the real estate
aforesaid to convey 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 to be purchased taken in exchange with full
powers and authority upon payment of the muney arising
by sale Of or given in exchange with all or any part
parts of the premises and TO and receipts
for the same But was also expressly agreed declared
and directed that all monies which should be received by
upon any such sale Sales for equality of exchange
should from time time with all convenient speed be in
vested BY the trustees by and with hL consent and appr
baton Of the said Henry and Anne the survivor
purchase of other lands enements to be
lands purchased taken in exchange should forth with
be settled and conveyed in such that they night
thenceforh remain to the 10 the same trusts
and the ntents and purposes and subject to the
same powers of sale and exchange provisions and agree
expressed in said instrument concerning
the lands which should be exchanged or sold respectively
petitioners further show that during nearly the whole
of their married life they have resided without the limits
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the health Of
the said Anne G. Bugwyn is such that she cannot safely
reside within said Commonwealth, account of the
verify of the climate And your petitioners further show
that they have child Of the of years. and
FIVE children under that age all residents Of Raleigh, in
said State of And your petitioners fur
Their represent that the restrictions in said marriage settle
ment that the proceeds Of land sold exchanged shall be
invested in other ards teneents heredtaments to be
situated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is attend
ed with OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES only to the said trustees
but petitioners who have suffered great loss there
by as they are prepared to show.
der said marriage settlement William Dehon and James
Read Esqs of the City of Boston, by whom your petit
TONERS advised that the only remedy the premises
by resolve of the Legislature of the Commonwealth.
Wherefore they pray that the of the said rus
tees and Of their be enlarged that they
be authorized invest such proceeds in property
they may deem expedent subject now, TO the approval
of your petitioners and to the other provisions of said
marriage settlement
.gsL -raas A. G. BURGWYN. >
w. CHANDLER, -.-fgs $50
Attorney for the Petitioners.
Boston, Mass, Oct, l6, 1860.
hereby approve of the publication of the above petition
in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in the North Carolina
Standard. 81 ,.r-sF
OLIVER WARNER,
SEcRErARr's OFFICE. Boston.
November ~, 1860. sHH
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