WARREN COUNTY NC Johnson Families and Neighbors A-113: 22 Sept. 1764, Peter Duncan and Alice his wife of Bute Co. NC, to Philip Burford of same, for £40 VA money fully paid, tract of land in the Co. of Bute late Granville<about:blankncgranvi.htm> and on waters of Cabbin Branch, adj. Colliers line, Abernathys corner, Mayfields line, Hawkins line, containing 200 acres more or less, being part of a deed surveyed for Wm. Moss. /s/ Peter Dunkin. Wit. John Hawkins, Nathaniel Bullock, Will Johnson. Receipt for money, same witnesses. Bute Co. Court Jan. 1765, proved by oath of Nathaniel Bullock and ordered recorded. Reg. April 1, 1765. (FHL film 20,063) (MAD: ? from Orange<about:blankncorange.htm> Co. NC) Notes this Peter Duncan come off line in Fauquier Co. Ca. Notes These Hawkins are coming off Tuckahoe Creek 1765 June 6, Similar conditions prevailed in Granville County. George Sims of Nutbush, Granville County, on , issued his famous "Nutbush Address," in which he set forth in graphic language, "the most notorious and intolerable abuses" which had crept into the public service in that county. It was not, he said, the "form of government, nor yet the body of our laws, that we are quarreling with, but with the malpractices of the Officers of our County Courts, and the abuses which we suffer by those empowered to manage our public affairs." Extortionate fees and oppressive methods of collecting fees and taxes formed the burden of his complaint. He called upon the people to meet for a discussion of reform, but the only result of his appeal was a petition to the assembly for redress of grievances which was stillborn. WARREN CO., NC DB-5, page 4. 14 August 1772. SPENCER PENDERGRASS to HERBERT(HARBERT) HIGHT***, both of Bute Co. l0 Sh: Procl. money for one acre in Bute Co. on Lynches (Linches) Creek. Wit: ROBERT WYNNE***, DAVID WILLIAMS***. Proved by ROBERT WYNNE, Bute Aug. Court 1774, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 4 Sept. 1774, JAMES JOHNSON,P.R.