Mary Love, "widow & relict of David Love deceased," asks that her son-in-law, John Whitaker, compensate her for the sale of her dower right. She represents that her husband died in 1827, possessed of 8 or 10 slaves and a tract of land. Love further declares that she had "her right of Dower in and of said tract of land laid off and allotted to her embracing the mansion house." She submits that her family prevailed upon her in 1830 to sell said land and that she agreed "upon their paying her the one forth part (one childs part) of the same," which amounted to $1000. Love states that the land was sold, but she charges that her son-in-law only gave her "two hundred and fifty dollars in a small negro Girl named Prucilla." With her "mansion house" sold, she avers that she lived alone with Prucilla, noting that "in the fall seasons she made her little Negro girl pick out cotton to pay for the cotton she herself used in cloathing herself and little Negro and during a part of the time she got a poor white girl to stay with her for company." Citing that "she is driven by absolute necessity to take this course," Love prays that "your Honor will Decree an account to be taken" between herself and the defendant and that she may receive "whatever sum may be ascertained to be due her."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maury County Historical Society Loose Records Project, Columbia, Tennessee
