ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - COURT - Elizabeth Riggs, Petition for Dower
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA    COURT OF PLEAS + QUARTER 
ONSLOW COUNTY                         NOVEMBER TERM 1838

TO THE WORSHIPS FOR THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF PLEAS + QUARTER *********  
FOR SAID COUNTY  . THE PETITION OF ELIZABETH RIGGS OF ONSLOW COUNTY 
RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH UNTO YOUR WORSHIPS THAT JOHN RIGGS SR. LATE OF SAID 
COUNTY ON THE DAY OF A.D. 1837 DEPARTED THIS LIFE INTESTATE LEAVING HIS 
SURVIVING YOUR PETITIONERS  HIS WIDOW  AND ISAAC RIGGS, MARY RIGGS, PHEBE 
LITTLETON WHO INTERMARRIED WITH EDMUND LITTLETON, JOHN RIGGS, NOAH RIGGS, 
BRYANT R. RIGGS + ASA RIGGS,  AND RUTHY MEADOWS HIS CHILDREN AND BRYANT RIGGS 
JR., THOMAS RIGGS, CHILDREN OF CARTWRIGHT RIGGS, A SON OF SAID JOHN RIGGS SR. 
WHO DIED IN THE LIFETIME OF SAID JOHN RIGGS. BOTH OF WHOM ARE INFANTS OF 
TENDER YEARS AND THOMAS RIGGS , PHEBE RIGGS, MIRIAM RIGGS, ISAAC RIGGS, DAVID 
RIGGS, RACHEL RIGGS, OLIVE RIGGS, DESIRE RIGGS, AND WILLIAM RIGGS , CHILDREN 
OF DAVID RIGGS, A SON OF SAID JOHN RIGGS SR. WHO DIED IN THE LIFETIME OF SAID 
JOHN RIGGS SENIOR.  ALL OF WHOM ARE OF TENDER YEARS AND STEPHEN BELL , JOHN 
BELL, LOOMIS BELL, LOTTY BELL +EBIN BELL CHILDREN OF BETSY, A DAUGHTER OF THE 
SIAD JOHN RIGGS SENIOR WHO INTERMARRIED WITH WILLIAM BELL + DIED IN THE 
LIFETIME OF SAID JOHN RIGGS ALL OF WHICH SAID CHILDREN OF THE SAID BETSY BELL 
EXCEPT STEPHEN BELL + JOHN BELL ARE MINORS AND INFANTS OF TENDER YEARS  WHICH 
SAID CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN ARE THE HEIRS AT LAW OF SAID JOHN RIGGS 
SENIOR. YOUR PETITIONER  FURTHER SHEWETH UNTO YOUR WORSHIPS THAT THE SAID JOHN 
RIGGS DIED L***D + ***** FEED OF A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND LYING + BEING IN THE 
COUNTY OF ONSLOW ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF GRANTS CREEK ADJOINING THE LANDS OF 
BRYANT R RIGGS, JOHN LLOYD + CARTWRIGHT JONES CONTAINING ABSENT TWO HUNDRED 
ACRES WHICH SAID TRACT HAS DECENDED + COME TO THE AFORESAID CHILDREN AND 
GRANDCHILDREN OF THE SAID JOHN RIGGS SENIOR AS HIS HEIRS AT LAW. YOUR 
PETITIONER FURTHER SHEWETH UNTO YOUR WORSHIPS THAT SHE IS ADVISED + BELIEVES 
THAT SHE IS ENTITLED TO DOWER IN THE AFORESAID LANDS: TO THE AND THEREFORE 
THAT THE SAID DOWER MAY BE ALLOTTED  + SET APART TO YOUR PETITIONER IN SAID 
TRACT . SHE PRAYS YOUR WORSHIPS THAT THE SAID DOWER  MAY BE ALLOTTED + SET 
APART TO HER + THAT THE SAID ISAAC RIGGS , MARY RIGGS, EDMUND LITTLETON + 
PHEBE HIS WIFE, JOHN RIGGS, NOAH RIGGS, BRYANT R. RIGGS, ASA RIGGS, RUTHY 
MEADOWS, BRYANT RIGGS+ THOMAS RIGGS CHILDEN OF CARTWRIGHT RIGGS + THOMAS 
RIGGS, PHEBE RIGGS, MIRIAM RIGGS, ISAAC RIGGS, DAVID RIGGS, RACHEL RIGGS, 
OLIVE RIGGS, DESIRE RIGGS + WILLIAM RIGGS ,CHILDREN OF DAVID RIGGS +  STEPHEN 
BELL, JOHN BELL, LOOMIS BELL, LOTTY BELL, + EBIN BELL, CHILDREN OF BETSY BELL 
+ HEIRS AT LAW OF SAID JOHN RIGGS SENIOR. MAY BE PROPER  *****  BE MADE   TO 
APPEAR IN THIS WORSHIPFUL COURT + SHEW CAUSE IF ANY THEY HAVE WHY DOWER IN THE 
AFORESAID TRACT OF LAND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOTTED TO YOUR PETITIONER + THAT YOUR 
WORSHIPS WOULD GRANT SUCH OTHER + FURTHER RELIEF IN THE PREMISES AS THE NATURE 
OF HER CASE MAY REQUIRE +TO YOUR WORSHIPS SHALL SEEM MEETH AND YOUR PETIONER 
WILL *** PRAY.



                                         J W BRYAN