Dobbs County, NC - Court Records

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Grace Williamson Turner
Edited by Guy Potts

Source: General Assembly Records, December 1770-January 1771, 
        November-December 1771, Box 5

North Carolina

             To the Hon'ble The Speaker and Gentleman of the House of
             Assembly now Siting

The humble petition of Faithy Smith Widow Sheweth
     that your petitioners late Husband John Smith on or
     about the first Day of April last Inlisted in the Dobbs
     Detachment And Marched with the Army in the expedition
     against the Insurgents and in the Battel at Alamance
     received a Mortal wound of which he on the next day after
     the said Battel died leaving your petitioner a very poor
     and distressed Widow with an Infant at her Breast and no
     kind of Support except the pay of her Deceased husband
     allowed by his Commanding Officer to the Time of his
     Death only which is now exhausted, your petitioner in a 
     Low weakly Condition is likely to become Chargeable to
     the Parish
               Therefore humbly pray such Assistance and relief
     in the premisses as this Hon'ble House shall think meet

                              And your Pet'r will ever pray
                                           her
                                       Faithy Smith
     November 20th 1771                   mark

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