State of North Carolina, Brunswick County
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, March Term 1848

To the Worshipful Justices of the Court aforesaid. The petition of Mary REGISTER humbly complaining sheweth unto your Worships that Gibson REGISTER late of this county departed this life some time during the year 1847 intestate, seized and possessed of one hundred acres of land situate in said county on the Wilmington Road just above Saml ROWELL, also one other tract, situate in said county on Dan’s Creek containing one hundred acres. Your petitioner further sheweth unto your Worships, that she is the lawful widow of the said Gibson REGISTER, and he left him surviving, Mary Ann, who is intermarried with George B. KING, John REGISTER, Kilby REGISTER an infant, Shadrack REGISTER an infant, and Henry H. WILLIAMS who intermarried with Elizabeth REGISTER a daughter of said Gibson, said Eliza having died before the decease of said Gibson, leaving her surviving the following children to wit Gibson, Mary Jane, Ann Eliza, Agnes, and Abram WILLIAMS minors. Your petitioner therefore prays your worships that Dower in said lands many be allotted to her according to the provision of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided, and that a copy of this petition may be served upon such of the parties as are of age and that some suitable person be appointed guardian ad litem to protect the interests of the minors mention in this petition, & your petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray.