To the sheriff of
Northampton County, Greeting;
You are hereby commanded to summon a jury of good and lawful men
unconnected with the parties neither by commanquinity nor affinity and entirely disinterested and
take with you the County surveyer, who upon oath,
shall allot and set off by metes and bounds, to SALLIE A. JOSEY, Widow and
relict of WILLIAM T. JOSEY dec'd; One third in value of all this lands,
tenements and hereditaments in said County of which
the said WILLIAM T. JOSEY dec'd. seized or possessed,
as set forth in her petition for Dower. That is to say, One tract of land
adjoining the lands of MARTHA JOSEY, and commonly known as the RANDOLPH tract,
containing 233 5/8 acres; another tract of land containing 13 3/4 acres,
adjoining the lands of H. COPELAND & Others. JOSEY'S interest in the last
said tract is One Half thereof in fee simple. That the
Widow dower, exclusively on the RANDOLPH Tract, and others, containing
about____ acres, and put her in possisson of the same
including the dwelling house in which her said Husband was accustomed to dwell
most, generally most before his death, Together with their offices, out houses,
buildings and other improvements thereunto belonging or appertaining, and
report to the next term of this Court. Issued 10th day of
September 1860.
ISAAC PEELE C.C.C.
State of North
Carolina, Northampton County, Pursuant
to the annexed order to me directed, I, SAMUEL A. WARREN Sheriff of said
county, have this day went upon the premises named in said order, attended by
JOEL CONNOR, county surveyor, and the apertaining jurors to wit; JAMES OLIVER,
JOHN W. PLIDGER, ROBERT BINGHAM, ELIAS ELLIOTT, JOSEPHINE COPELND,
JOSEPH HAIL, ANDERSON TRIBULL, JAMES
The above Two
plats A & B is the content of Seventy acres of land, surveyed and
allotted off as Dower to Mrs. SARAH
JOSEY, Widow of WILLIAM T. JOSEY dec'd; late of Northampton County, (N.C) being
adjudged by a jury to be the One Third part in value of all the lands of said
dec'd; Metes and bounds of said Dower as follows, to Wit; The lot having the
letter "B" beginning at a corner Stake on the Road leading from Rich Square
to NORFLEETS Ferry, running thence down said Road N.35 E.108 poles near a
bridge a crop said Road, then N.69 E.31 poles to MARTHA JOSEY'S line, then her
line S.494 E.89 poles to a corner Stake, thence through the Plantation S.54
W.71 poles to a corner Stake, then S.89 W.100 poles to the first station. Containing Fifty Eight acres. The lot "A" near
Corinth Church, Beginning at a corner White Oak running thence S.79 W.30 poles
to VANNS corner Hickory Stump, then N.14 W.57 poles to Three corner Gums,
thence R. BANANS line N.34 E.34 poles to a corner Stone, a new line S.13 1/2
E.82 poles to the first station. Containing Twelve acres of
lumber land. Given
under my hand this
JOEL CONNOR G. Sr.
Registered