Bertie COUNTY NC Estate Bryan, Elizabeth dowry File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Cathy Farris http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie.htm 1781 Elizabeth BRYAN Jr Widow of William BRYAN Bertie County Estate Records NCArchives 010.508.13 (top line cut off...cathy) Agreeable to the __ order of Court we the subscribers, Jurors being summoned and qualified according Law to Lay of to Mrs. Elisabeth BRYAN Jur. Dowry in the Lands of her Deceased Husband William BRYAN do Lay of to as followith to wit. One tract including the Mansion House containing Seventy Acres bounded as follows. Beginning at a pursimon in a slash near the gate, then S67½ E to a hickory on Falling Run, then down the Run to a water oak, then along the percoson and marsh binding on HILLS line to a water oak on a slash, then up the slash to the first station. One Hundred and Eight three acres and 1/3 on the East Side of Falling Run, the line to be Run Parrellel with John TURNERS line from the Run at the lower end of the tract the land is to be laid off-- Sam W. JOHNSTON John FOLK Jeremiah MITCHEL Rich’d VEAL Thomas VEAL Gabriel HARRELL Joshua HARRELL Wm VEALE Maurice VEALE Lewis THOMPSON William RUFFIN John YOUNG