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The above document is a partial copy of Sarah's dower found in the probate record. By this time in 1808, she was Sarah Flowers and on this document, she was identified as Salley Flowers. The entire document reads as follows: In obedience to an order of Court Signed May Term 1808 - We the under signd Jurors having been summoned & sworn by the D. Sheriff to allot and set off to Sally Flowers Widow of Jno. Giddens, Dec'd, her Dower in the Real Estate of sd Dec'd we have agreeable thereto as the above plan Represents to Witt Begin at a white oak & runs N79 W.65 pole to a sweet gum on the run of Jethros Branch then up the run of sd Branch as it meanders to a tree Huckleberry near the head thereof then S10 E 38 pole to a stake then Et 205 pole to a pine then N32 Et 276 pole to the road then with same as it runs to a pine Adam Reaves Corner, then S20 Est 41 pole to a pine her Corner, then W98 pole to a pine then N75 pole to a pine in Rhodes's Line then his line to the Begin Containing 333 Acres In testimony whereof, we have set our hands this 6th Day of June 1808 The Jurors were Ezekiel Slocumb, Sampson Edwards, Durham Graddy, Briton Hood, William Lewis, John Jones, David Edwards, Lovett Reaves, Adam Reaves, Jesse Norris, Urbane Lewis, and Jesse Bass. J. Bledsoe, DS Executed [1] |
Last week, I wrote about my fourth great-grandfather, John Giddens in the post Gathering Giddens: John Giddens, a Planter in North Carolina. Today, I am sharing all that I currently know about his wife, Sarah, my fourth great-grandmother.
