Bertie COUNTY NC Court Dicy White - Dower Petition Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by "Neil Baker" http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie.htm Windsor Ledger December 6, 1833 State of North Carolina Bertie County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions November Term 1833 Dicy White to the Court - Petition for Dower It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Thomas Layton and wife, Priscilla, Peter White, John White, George White, Eleanor Wells and Perry White and wife, Penelope, are residents of the western country and without the limits of this State. It is therefore ordered that publication be made in the Windsor Herald as to the said Layton and wife, Peter, John and George White, Eleanor Wells and Perry White and wife, that unless they make their personal appearance at our next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held for the county of Bertie at the Court House in Windsor, on the second Mondy of February next, judgment, pro confesso, will be taken against them by default, and the prayer of the petitioner granted. By order of Court. Jona. S. Taylor, Clerk