Susan Johnston, the widow of Robert Johnston, declares that she is entitled to a dower in the lands owned by her late husband as well as "to the one sixth part" of the slaves he owned. She notes that her husband died intestate in 1846 and that the court appointed her and one James Johnston as administrators of the estate. Johnston specifies that "she does not desire a third part of each separate tract of land assigned to her" but instead she requests that her dower "be set a part to her out of the said tract of land in Marshall County including the mansion house out houses improvements &c." She asks that her children and their guardians be subpoenaed to answer her bill; that a writ of dower be issued; and "that Commissioners be appointed to allot & set a part the one Sixth part of said negroes to your oratrix and that she may hold them absolutely in severalty."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
