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Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.07), Box 7
Bateman, Harmon, 1833
Petition July Term 1833 by Mary Bateman who shows that Harmon Bateman died sometime in the year 1832 seized and possessed of a tract of land where petitioner now lives and left your petitioner his widow. She prays the Sheriff be ordered to summon a jury of 12 good & lawful men and lay off her dower in the real estate of said Harmon Bateman deceased. She also prays that a guardian ad litem be appointed to the only heir, Kezia Bateman, and that notice be served on them. Joseph Halsey was appointed guardian ad litem.
Court order at July Term 1833 granting the petition of Mary Bateman for dower.
Laying off of the dower of Mary Ann Bateman in the lands of her deceased husband, Harmon Bateman, on 15 Mar 1834 by H. G. Spruill, Sheriff, John Eustis, Surveyor, Dempsy S. Godfrey, John A. Hassell, Thomas Lewis, Franklin B. Armstrong, James A. Spruill, John H. Haughton, Jefferson Swain, Jesse Giles, Simeon C. Spruill, Peter Marriner & Benjamin O. Brien.
Transcriber's Notes:
Tyrrell County marriage bonds show the marriage of Harman Batman to Mary England on 22 May (1816), John Ansley security.
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