James Stevens |
| Relationship to the Speculation Lands: |
| Stevens was the first resident agent for Arthur Bronson and the other owners and supervised Davis mine in Mecklenburg County (now Union County). Various notations by Stevens indicate that he was forced to file numerous writs of ejectment in court to remove squatters from the company's gold lands. |
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0579 - Suit in Ejectment by Hoyt, Bronson, and Murray on Patent 1040. Also a letter from James Stevens to the Bronsons asking permission to communicate with Isaac Bronson concerning the state of their business affairs in western North Carolina (1828). |
| Bibliography: |
| Roundtree, Lynn. The Robbins Collection of Speculation Land Company Records. Armadilo Books: Chapel Hill, NC, 2002. |