Ontario County

To Dear ____Surrogate of this County,


I hereby request you or especially as may be to appoint and authorized conspicuous to _______ and set off to me my right of Dower to the Estate of Eleazer Barrett my late husband of the Town of Bloomfield in said County.  _____ being the one third part of two pieces of land consisting of fifty acres and being a part of Lot Number seventy eight in township Number Ten in the Fourth Range of Townships in the County of Ontario of which the said Eleazer Barrett did seize and also forty one acres and one hundred and forty six rods of land being a part of Lot Number forty one in Township Number Nine in the fourth range of Townships in the County of Ontario of which the said Eleazer Barrett did seize together with the appurtenances thereto belong to  ___ Deacon at the time of his death.

    Trial Barrett

    Date this 20th day of December 1822.


Summary of land descriptions:

50 acres-Lot 78 in township no. 10

41 acres and 146 rods-Lot 41 in township no. 9. 

File name a:/Trail Barrett’s Petition to Dower



Kindly donated by Steve Barrett; Eleazer Barrett and his wife Trial, are his 4th great grandparents.



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