Laban Lewis

Greene & Wayne Counties, North Carolina
Born 19 Nov 1785 - Died before 15 May 1831


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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.

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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