A recent post at About.com by Kimberly Powell, “Ancestors Named in Historical Statutes” reminded me how many people are
named in laws established by the states and the federal government.
I have become more familiar with such session or private
laws since NC has digitized and posted (as well as made searchable) the various
Session
Laws of NC
from 1817 through 2009. All kinds of
so-called “private laws” have been enacted in NC involving ordinary citizens
and often documentation about such can be found at the NC archives. For example, I recently examined a bill to
get a Civil War soldier a pension (initially denied as the state had no more
budget for such!) and I’d previously found a “name change” (though no
indication as to the “why” though such information was provided for others!).
It was neat to read Kimberly’s article and learn more about U.S.
After some playing around, I found an entry
in the Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the Unites States
of America
And, though I had researched Simon Turner (of Halifax County
and then Wake County NC), I had not known in 1806 “a” Simon Turner was to be
Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue, for the port of Windsor. Probably a namesake relative since “our” Simon
was long in Wake County
Did you successfully find a relative named? If so, in what context?
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