This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROBINSON, TOOMEY, RATLEDGE Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/7061 Message Board Post: LDS film 019729 - Rowan Co., NC - Divisions of Estates - Widow's Dowers (loose sheets in alpha order by surname) Elizabeth (Cowell) Robinson's Dower (Widow of Tully Robinson) (a hand sketched diagram of land showing widow's portion divided off) State of North Carolina Rowan County By . . .iance to an order of the worshipful court of said county of August Session 1821. We the subscribers after being duly qualified agreeable to act of assembly in such case made and provided have provided to set off the dower of Elizabeth Robinson, widow of Tully Robinson, dec'd out of the above plan. Beginning at a dogwood one of his original corners running South thirty chains to a red oak sapling thence East fourteen chains and twenty four links to a red oak thence North thirty chains to a Stone, on original line of the old rack thence to the first location, containing forty two and one third acres - Surveyed october the 10th 1821 by John Little, D.S. (signed by 12 men) J. Henderson Eliphet Smoot, Sr. Thos. Cole Daniel Ratledge (crossed out) Scarlet Glascock John Taylor Warner Brown Daniel J. Smoot Nathaniel Comer Baker Johnson Joseph Beale Richard Anderson Charles Anderson Next sheet . . . two scraps of paper - writing still legible Rowan County August 1821 Oredered by the Court that Charles Anderson Esquire, Daniel Rutledge (Ratledge), Warner Brown and Scarlett Glascock act as a Committe to lay off one years provision for the widow and family of Tully Robinson. Rowan County - August Session 1821 Ordered by the Court that the Sheriff Summon a jury of good and lawful men to lay off by metes and bounds the Dower of Betsy T_mey in the lands of her late husband, Tully Robinson. - - - - - - - - Note: Elizabeth remarried after Tully's death to Patrick Toomey. One son born to them 1825 - George Washington Toomey removed to Clark Co., IN with many others from Rowan/Davie Co. area. Children of Tully Robinson & Elizabeth Cowell: Elsie Robinson 23 Jun 1810 m. John Ratledge to Gibson Co., TN Martha Robinson Tullius Robinson Adam J. Robinson Alec Robinson Esther Robinson Dickenson Robinson Manlief Dickerson Robinson m. Mary Prather to Clark Co.,IN Thomas Jefferson Robinson William Cowell Robinson b. 12 May 1818