Which William Whitfield?
Does anyone know which William Whitfield this refers to?
Source:Pitt Co Genealogical Qtrly, Vol 6, No 2, May 1999
Petition of Wm Whitfield of Pitt County
NC General Assembly Session Records, April-May 1780, House Joint Resolutions
to the Honorable Assembly now setting in Newbern.
The Petition of Wm Whitfield most Humbly Shewth that your Honours Pertitioner being Very much Disabled in body and having a Charge of Children all small & of a Very Small Interest to support them on is Desirous that your Honours would take it into Consideration being present himself & seeing his Infirmity to give him a discharge from all publick Taxes is your own Judgements will plainly Demonsterate his Inability therefore Expecting a Complyence to my Request your Honours petitioner as in Duty bound shall Every Pray.
April ye 16th, 1780Wm WHITFIELD
{granted April 20, 1780}