Bath County Deed Book E Page 98

Crockett & Wife to Landsdown

Bath County Clerks Office

This day Polly Crockett the wife of Robert Crockett came personally before me Thomas G. Sudduth, Deputy Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid in my office and having heard the deed hereunto annexed from her and her husband to William Cartmill, read & explained & being by me examined of and concerning her claim of dower, therein, which deed is refered to by its boundaries as follows: Beginning at two beech trees thence N 70 W 141 poles to a beech in Willis Green line as anciently marked, thence S 1 degree E on said line 119 poles to a elm & black oak, thence S 70 E 134 poles to a sugartree and elm in a small drain thence N 121 poles to the Beginning containing ninety two acres & 8 poles.

Privily and apart from her said husband, declared she freely and voluntarily relinquished her right of dower & all claim or title thereto without the threats or persuasions of her said husband. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal as Deputy Clerk aforesaid this 16th day of November 1824

Thomas G. Sudduth

Transcribed by Paula Berry Hampton