MECLENBURG COUNTY, NC - COURT - Rebecca Fuller v. The Real Estate of Isham Fuller, deceased --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- ************************************************************************ Contributor's note: Isham Fuller (died 1846) and his mother, Sarah Fuller (died 1845, widow of Alsey Fuller) died intestate and had estate files in both Mecklenburg County, NC, and in York County, SC. They are buried, along with Alsey Fuller, in the Flint Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Fort Mill, SC. Transcriptions of some documents from their Mecklenburg County Estate files follow. I expect to also place transcriptions of the York County intestate estate files of Alsey Fuller, Sarah Fuller and Isham Fuller in the York County SC USGenWeb Archives. North Carolina State Archives citation for these estate files is CR 065.508, Box 90. Transcriptions within quotation marks. [Bracketed material added by contributor.] ************************************************************************ "Rebecca Fuller vs. The Real Estate of Isham Fuller deceased Petition for Dower April Term 1846 Greer State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions April Term 1846 To the worshipful the justices of said court. The petition of Rebecca Fuller humbly complaining sheweth unto your worships - That she is the widow & relict of Isham Fuller late of said county who died since the last term of this court intestate and possessed of a tract of land lying and situate in said county adjoining the lands of Hugh Harris and others leaving the following infants his heirs at law -- for whom there has not been any guardian appointed viz. William Jones - Sarah - Alsy & Henry Clay Fuller. She prays your worships to issue an order to the sheriff to summon a jury of good and lawful men to lay of[f] and set apart unto her her dower according to act of assembly in such cases made & provided and she as in duty bound will ever pray. Greer [J of P?] for Petitioner" ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Milford Kirby bmkirby@mindspring.com ___________________________________________________________________