Rowan County, North Carolina, handwritten for and signed by John Oliphant, Thomas Frohock and Francis Locke dated 1772 stating that John Oliphant has "obtained a licence to keep and ordinary at your own home in the County of Rowan...and provide in his said ordinary good wholesome and clean diet and lodging for Travelers, and stables, and Fodder and Corn, or pasturage and Corn as the season will require for their horses for and during the term of one year from the 8th day of May", 12 x 17-1/2 in., one printed and dated 1774 for John Brown, Francis Locke and Alexander Penny to keep an ordinary, 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 in., custom framed, carved egg and dart painted frame, 19 x 24 in., accompanied by copy of frame receipt and biography of Francis Locke  Note: Formerly on loan to the Thomas A. Gray Rare Book Library and Manuscript Collection, Winston-Salem, North CarolinaFrancis Locke (1722-1796) served as a Colonel in the First Regiment of the Rowan County militia during the American Revolution. , Provenance: Aaron Capel Collection, Troy, North Carolina Collection; Private Collection, NC 1772 document with ink stains, small losses along folds, torn edges, 1774 with light stain at bottom, minor losses and some creasing