Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Gay, John - Estate 1829
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Written: 1829

	Gay, John, Estates 1829, Edgecombe County Estate Records, NC 
State Archives CR.037.508.52.  Petition of Mary Gay, widow of John Gay, 
dec’d. to lay off her dower lands, her husband died in 1829, intestate 
and possessed of a tract of land adjoining David Nolly, Aaron Proctor 
and others, heirs were Absalom Proctor & Letha, his wife, Jacob Proctor 
and Temperance, his wife, Piety Gay, Richard Gay, William Proctor and 
Mourning, his wife of full age and Polly Gay, Henry Gay, Richard Gay, 
Esther Gay and Nancy Gay, infants under the age of twenty one years.  
Petition of Mary Gay for years provisions states that Jacob Proctor and 
Richard Gay were appointed administrators at this term of court, Nov. 
Ct. 1829.  Court order to Charles Barnes, Etheldred Cohoon & Meedy 
Williford together with Robert Barnes, Esq. to lay off to Mary Gay, 
widow of John Gay, dec’d. year’s provisions; Nov. Ct. 1829.  Court 
order to lay off dower to Mary Gay, widow of John Gay, dec’d., 
adjoining the lands of David Nolly, Aaron Proctor and others, agreeable 
to petition of said Mary Gay; Nov. Ct. 1829.  Commissioners laid off to 
Mary Gay, widow of John Gay, her dower lands, beginning at an ash in 
How Branch then up the said branch to nearly opposite the house then 
south 77 west 84 poles to a red oak on the side of the new road then 
south 37 poles to a hickory in David Nolly’s line then along said line 
south 88 east 94 poles to a gum at the fork of a branch then up the 
various courses of the south prong to a stooping maple then east 110 
poles to a stake then north 125 poles to the beginning, containing 104 
acres, including the house, outhouses, orchards & C. where the deceased 
most generally lived next before his death, 13 Jan. 1830, signed Joab 
(Proctor), M. Williford, Etheldred Cohoon (X), Peoples Hill (X), Robert 
Barnes, W.D. Petway, Hardy Flowers, Daniel Land, Samuel (Nov  ), Bird 
Land, Orren D. Calhoon, (Garry Daughtridge).   Years provisions laid 
off on 15 Dec. 1829, 2000 pds of pork, 36 barrels of corn, one beef 
cow, 12 pds. sugar, 10 gals. Molasses four bushels salt, 12 pds coffee, 
one hill of potatoes supposed to be about 25 bushels, four blade 
stacks, 200 pds seed cotton with a small quantity of flax, 10 gals 
brandy, one bed furniture, one wheel and cards, signed Charles Barnes, 
Etheldred Cohoon (X), M. Williford, Robert Barnes.  NC State Archives, 
Edgecombe Co. estate file CR.037.508.??


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