Wake County, NC - Courts

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State of North Carolina}     Court of Pleas & Quarter Wake County}           
       Sessions
                               August Session 1834

To the worshipful the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session for 
said County.

The petition of Ailey Poole, Jonathan, Anderson & Lewis Poole most humbly 
complaining respectfully represents to your worship that some time in the 
year A D 1834 her late husband William Poole who resided in the County of 
Wake aforesaid departed this life intestate leaving your petitioner his 
widow and the following children surviving him, (to wit) Jonathan Poole, 
Anderson Poole, Lewis Poole, Hardy Poole, William Poole, Caroline Poole, 
Jackson Poole, and Calvin Poole, his children and heirs at law surviving him 
and your petitioner further represents to your worship that her late husband 
the aforesaid William Poole deceased was at the time of his death seized in 
fee simple and possessed of the following tract of land, situate lying and 
being in the County of Wake aforesaid adjoining the lands of George Poole, 
the late Colonel William Polk, John H. Jones, James Wilder, Martha Pool, and 
the heirs of Elbert Finch, suppose to contain three hundred acres and your 
petitioner further represents that the said Jonathan, and Anderson and Lewis 
Poole are of lawful age & the said Hardy, William, Caroline, Jackson and 
Calvin Poole are infants and to whom your petitioner pray a guardian and 
____ may be appointed & your petitioners Jonathan, Anderson & Lewis Poole 
request that dower may be assigned the petitioner Ailey Poole their mother 
such being a true history of the facts of the case your petitioner Ailey 
Poole is advised & believes that she has a right to have her dower laid off 
in said tract of land & she therefore prays you worship to cause to be a 
writ of dower directed to the Sheriff of Wake County commanding him to 
summon a jury of twelve freeholders unconnected with the parties by 
consanguinity or affinity and disinterested who upon oath shall allot and 
set off your petitioner Ailey Poole widow as aforesaid one third part of 
said tract of land & provisions of which William Poole died seized of & 
possessed including the dwelling house & other out houses - and that the 
said sheriff and jury & sheriff report their proceedings touching the 
provinces under their hands & seals to the next term of this Court and that 
the guardian of said infants defendant answer this petitioner at this court 
(vis August term 1834) and your petitioner prays such other & further relief 
as the nature of her case may require & she will ever pray to.               
         George W. Haywood, Pro Petitioners


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