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- Martha Turner, the wife of Daniel Dickinson, is Mary's sister.
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Petition for dower rights of Mary DICKINSON, widow of Joel DICKINSON
Posted by Vikki Hollowell Highfield on Sat, 28 Nov 1998
Surname: DICKINSON
MARY DICKINSON Widow of JOEL DICKINSON Dec'd Dower. State of North Carolina, Wayne County Court, April Term 1794. MARY DICKINSON Widow of JOEL DICKINSON Deceased vs. The Heirs and Executors of the said Deceased. Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Jury of Good and Lawful men of his Ba____ to set of and allot to MARY DICKINSON, Widow and Relict of JOEL DICKINSON late of Wayne County Deceased, her Dower, in and to the Lands which her said Husband siezed and possessed of in Wayne County Lying on Contentnea Creek, containing about Three Hundred and Sixty Acres, as also her equal an proportionable part, of the personal Estate that her said Husband died Siezed and possessed of (with the children of the said Deceased) agreeable to the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided thereon to our next (Court together with the said Jury) at the Court House in Waynesborough on the second Modnay in July Next. Witness JAMES COBB Clerk of our siad Court at Office this 19th April AD 1795. I have summoned a Jury agreeable to this Order who met and have allotted to the Widow her Dower agreeablee to this return made, Signed by the Jury July the 1st 1795.
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