Sampson County NcArchives Photo Document.....Amy King Dower 1813 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 November 20, 2017, 9:01 pm Source: North Carolina Estate Files, FamilySearch Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/sampson/photos/documents/amykingd2776gph.jpg Image file size: 151.4 Kb In obedience of Sampson County Court to an order of Feb'r Term 1813 directing the Sheriff to summons a jury of good and lawful men to lay off to Mrs. Amy King widow of Stephen King dec'd her dower of land which the said King died seized and possessed of we the under signed being duly summoned met on the premises the 13 instant and being sworn Report in manner following (Viz) To ascertain by the county surveyor the quantity of land the said dec'd dyed possessed of in the county aforesaid and found two thousand one hundred and forty eight acres exclusive of 706 acres in Cumberland County and proceeded to allot and lay off to her the said widow of the land in this county adjacent to the fork of Six Runs and Braconridges Branch, Sugs Branch. Report Mrs. Amy King Dower, May Term 1813 Approved and ordered to be registered H Holmes ========== The above plat represents 561 acres land laid off by the subscribed jury agreeable to an order of Feb'r Term and was satisfactorily acceptable by Mrs. Amy King as a competency of dower of all the lands of her husband Mr. Stephen King dec'd possessed of. March 16th 1813 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/sampson/photos/documents/amykingd2776gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb