DOWER
of

ABVILLA (LASATER?) HAILEY
OCTOBER 30, 1839

This document has been copied verbatim from a xerox copy of the handwritten original.

State of North Carolina. Anson County -- Pursuant to an order of Court directed to the Sheriff of said County of Anson requiring him to summon a jury of good and Lawful men to lay off to Abvilla Hailey, widow of John Hailey Dec'd her dower in the lands of sd John Hailey Dec'd. In pursuance of sd order I R? W Allen Sheriff as aft' attended by the undersigned free holders they being duly sworn have laid off and alloted to her the sd Abvilla Hailey Widow as a aft' a tract of land containing twenty nine and a third acres it being one third part of the lands of sd John Hailey Dec'd and including the mansion or dwelling house wherein he lived last before his Dec'd which one third part is bounded as folloes beginning at a stake in Adcocks line in the old river road 1 sweet Gum & dogwood -?- and run with sd line So 64 1/2 Wst 14 chains 75 links then So 39 Est 18 chains 25 links to the 1st corner of s 100 acre deed(?) by a red oak stump in the old river Road then with sd road So 2 Est 6(?) chns 50 links then with sd Road So 9 Est 12 chns 40 lks to the Rooty branch then down the various courses of sd Branch 12 chns 30 links to a Spanish oak Permenters Corner on the old road then with said Road So 30 Est 10 chns then So 25 Est 11 chns 60 links to Permenters Corner stake then with Permenters line No 65 Est 12 chns 50 links to a black jack by hickory then No 32 Wst 58 chns 50 links to the beginning all of which I report to the worshipfull Court aft' as witnefs of th said freeholders doth hereunto set there respective hands and seals this the 30th day of October 1839.
Thomas Ingram {seal}James Permenter {seal}Joel(?) Seago {seal}
Elijah Ratcliff {seal}Sanford Liles {seal}Wm Clark {seal}
William H Cox {seal}James M Flake {seal}W Eason {seal}
Amos Liles {seal}John Permenter {seal}William Locke {seal}

Witnefs by W Allen Shff
J W Morse D Shff

April sepions(?) 1840 Then the above Dower was returned in open Court and ordered to be recorded and Registered
N D Boggan Clk

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