Wayne County, NC - Mary Howell Dower ----¤¤¤---- STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Wayne County In Obedience to an order of Court May Term 1827 we the jurors have been summoned and qualified by the SHFF to lay off to MARY HOWELL widow of LAZARUS HOWELL dec. her dower in the land of _____ we have agreeable thereto as the above plan represnts ________ Begining at a small pine on the turn of the mare branch at the path and runs S34 &25 Poles to a pine thence S4 &120 Poles to a stake there N33 &165 Poles to a pine then N46 &26 Poles to a maple at the Head of the Little Branch then down the meanders of the same to the run of the Great Branch then up the meanders of the same to the mouth of the mare Branch, there up the meanders fo the same to the first station Containing One Hundred and Thirty One and a half acres in testamony whereof we the jurors have set our hands and seals this 18th day of Aug 1827 Witness C BLACKMAN SHFF JOHN HILL, CALVIN COOK, BRITTON HOOD, JN CRAWFORD, BLANY COOK, L? H WHITFIELD, WOODARD HOWELL, JOHN C PENDER, AMOS BOYTE, JOHN KENNEDY, STEPHEN BOYTE, LEVI COX, JESSE SIMMONS(?) __________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by K. Mitchell ___________________________________________________________________