Henritta Greene Petition ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by HERMAN W DUNN" USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ******************************************************************* **************************************************************** October, 1855 Session page 64 Retta (Henritta) Green petitioned for a years allowance from her deceased husband's, Robert Greene, estate. State of North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarters Montgomery County Sept/Oct Term 1855 To the worshipful the Court of Pleas & Quarters petitions in and for said county. The Petition of Ritty Green, widow of Robert Green humbly complaining your Petitioner hereby(sic) to your Worship that her husband the late Robert Green departed this life in October, in said county leaving your petitioner, his widow, and her four children, without any provision for the years support. Your Petitioner therefore prays your worship to appoint a justice of the peace & three fourholder (sic) to lay off to your Petitioner one years provision for herself & family according to act of assembly in such care made and provided and as in ????? ???? your Petitioner Ritta Green family NC James L. Garris for Ritta State of North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarters Montgomery County Sept/Oct Term 1855 It is ordered by the Court that Murdock McRae, Esq. Allan Rush, John Ewing and David Harris be appointed to commissioners to lay off and allot to the Petitioner & her family one years provision out of her husbands personal estate as ???? for.