Wayne County NcArchives Court.....Lewis, Laban 1831
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Written: 1831

Laban Lewis Estate, 1831

August Term 1831 - To the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter 
Sessions for Wayne County; the petition of Mourning Lewis shows that Laban 
Lewis died in June, 1831 seized of real estate leaving your petitioner his 
widow and eight children viz: Leecy, Rebecca, Lucy, Betsey, Lany, Wright, 
Jane and Mourning his heirs at law surviving.

The real estate consisted of two tracts in Wayne on which said Laban Lewis 
lived containing between 250-300 acres being on Sleepy Creek and was 
conveyed to said Laban by his father William Lewis by deed and the other 
tract contains about 400 acres lying on Sleepy Creek conveyed to said Laban 
by Joseph Everitt and adjoins the first tract. 

The widow was petitioning the court to set aside her widow's dower in said 
tracts as determined by a committee appointed by the court.

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In obedience to an order of the County Court issued Aug't Term 1831 we the 
jurors have been summoned and sworn by the Sheriff to lay off to Mourning 
Lewis widow of Laben Lewis dec'd her Dower in the land of said deceased we 
have agreeable thereto as the above plan represents during her natural 
lifetime.

Beginning at two pines to a stake in the Crabgrass Meadow containing 198 
acres. In testimony whereof we the jurors have set our hands and seals this 
12th day of November 1831.

Witness: Wm Thompson Shff
Britton Hood Surveyor
Jurors: John B. Hurst, John McKinne, Jas F Kornegay, Richard Casey, Charles 
Carraway, John B Whitfield, Hatch Whitfield, William Carraway, Henry 
Carraway, Stephen Smith and Bright Best.


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