Petition for Name Change! Whiddon to Gandy

Edward Gandy, Jr. adopted four Whiddon Children, Griffin, Brinkly, Temsey and Elizabeth about 1809. In 1809, he partitioned the General Assembly to change the names of these four children so that they would have the same rights and privileges as his own.  The General Assembly, in 1809, approved his request.

 Each of these 4 children along with a child named Amos Gandy were named within Edward Gandy Last Will and Testament written on 23 July 1816 and probated August Term 1817 in Nash County, North Carolina.

 

 

Partial Transcription:

CHAP. CXXVIII

                   An act to alter the names of the persons therein mentioned, and to legitimate a part thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the names of Griffin Whitton, Brinkly Whitton, Temsey Whitton and Elizabeth Whitton, of Nash County, to that of Griffin Gandy, Brinkly Gandy, Temsey Gandy and Elizabeth Gandy; and the names of Robert Stanly…

 

And the aforesaid persons shall be called and known by the names as above altered, and shall be able respectively to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, and shall possess and enjoy the same privileges as if they had borne the names as above altered from their nativity.

 

II. And be it further enacted, That the following persons who are mentioned in first section of this act, to wit, Saphier Volentine Bledsoe, Joel W. Henderson, Ann Shores, Elvey Lewis, Anderson Peoples, Griffin Gandy, Brinkly Gandy, Temsey Gandy and Elizabeth Gandy, Milicent Freeman… shall for ever hereafter be legitimated and made capable to possess, inherit and enjoy, by descent or otherwise, any estate, either real or personal, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been born in actual wedlock.

 

 The Gandy's are part of my maternal lineage. 

 

 

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Note: Surname spelled Whitton and Whiddon

N.C. General Assembly, North Carolina Session Laws, 1795-1821; 1809, p. 40, Ch. CXXVIII, Microfilm Rel S.50.5P. The act changed the names of Whiddon children, Griffin, Brinkley, Tamsey and Elizabeth, to Gandy. The children had been adopted by Edward Gandy, Jr. of Nash County, N.C.

https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll9/id/265415

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