The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

258 COMMONS JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 20, 1758–DECEMBER 14, 1758The Council have read a Petition of James Hunter, Executor of the lastWill and Testament of Joseph Murray, late of Craven County, Planter, deceased,in behalf of James Murray, only Son and Heir at Law of the said deceased,An Infant, addressed to the Governor, Council and Assembly.And then the Messenger withdrew.“An Ordinance for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of two of the Inquirers,Assessors and Collectors in the Township of Saxe Gotha and theForks between the Congree and Wateree Rivers and Places adjacent,” wasread a third time.Resolved that the Ordinance do pass.Ordered that Mr. Guerard and Mr. Laurens do carry the Ordinance tothe Council and desire their Concurrence.The Petition of James Hunter, Executor of the last Will and Testament ofJoseph Murray, late of Craven County, Planter, deceased, was read, Setting forth,That An Act of the General Assembly was made the 8th Day of Marchin the fourteenth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign for settling a Ferry onSantee River in the Way leading from Charles Town to Williamsburgh, andfor vesting the said Ferry in the said Joseph Murray, his Executors, Administratorsand Assigns for the Term of Seven Years.That the Land on both Sides of the River where the said Ferry is settledand where Passengers are transported over the short Ferry belongs to thesaid James Murray in Consideration whereof (as the Petitioner conceives)the said Ferry was first vested in the said Joseph Murray, deceased, and bysubsequent Laws hath been continued solely in the said Murray and his Executorsever since, until the Year 1756, when An Act was made establishing aFerry from the Plantation of Theodore Gaillard on the South Side of SanteeRiver to Murray’s Landing on the North Side of the River, and vesting theSame in the said Theodore Gaillard, his Executors, Administrators and Assignsfor the Term therein mentioned.The Petitioner further Sheweth that the said Theodore Gaillard sincethe making of the last mentioned Act assumes a Right to transport Passengersover the short Ferry and keeps a Ferry Boat for that purpose at the Landingbelonging to the said James Murray on the South Side of the River tothe manifest Injury of the said James Murray; altho’ the Petitioner humblyconceives it was no wise the Intention of the General Assembly when theymade the said Act, that the said Gaillard should keep a Ferry at any Placeother than his own Plantation, mentioned in the said Act.That Murray’s Ferry has been always well and duly attended, wherePassengers have never been delayed when the River was passable, and noApplication would have been made by the Inhabitants of WilliamsburghTownship for Gaillard’s Ferry, but for the Convenience of passing the River