Rowan Co. NC estate records: Dower for Elizabeth "Betsy" Robinson contributed by Pamela Geisler Smith ****************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************************** LDS Film #019729 - Rowan Co., NC - Division of Estates - Widow's Dowers (loose sheets in alpha order by surname) Elizabeth Robinson's Dower (Widow of Tully Robinson) ( a hand sketched diagram of land showing widow's portion divided off) State of North Carolina Rowan County By _ _ _iance to an order of the worshipful court of said county of August Session 1821, We the subscribers after being duly qualified agreeable to act of assembly in such case made and provided have provided to set off the dower of Elizabeth Robinson, widow of Tully Robinson, dec'd out of the above plan. Beginning at a dogwood one of his original corners running South thirty chains to a red oak sapling thence East fourteen chains and twenty four links to a red oak thence North thirty chains to a Stone, on original line of the old track thence to the first location, containing forty two and one third acres ~ Surveyed October the 10th 1821 by John Little, D.S. (signed by 12 men) J. Henderson Eliphet Smoot, Sr Thos. Cole Daniel Ratledge (crossed out) Scarlet Glascock John Taylor Warner Brown Daniel J. Smoot Nathaniel Comer Baker Johnson Joseph Beale Richard Anderson Charles Anderson Next sheet . . . two scraps of paper - writing still legible . . . Rowan County August 1821 Ordered by the Court that Charles Anderson Esquire, Daniel Rutledge, Warner Brown and Scarlett Glascock act as a Committee to lay off one years provision for the widow and family of Tully Robinson. Rowan County - August Session  1821 Ordered by the Court that the Sheriff Summon a jury of good and lawful men to lay off by metes and bounds the Dower of Betsy T_mey in the lands of her late Husband, Tully Robinson. _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ Note: I cannot read the last name of the above Betsy. I looked at my land records books and I'll bet it's Toomey/Twomey. There were several men by that name listed. So apparently the widow remarried after Tully's death.   Pamela Geisler Smith Gresham, OR