Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-30
70 the Public.

IN reply to the caution which Mr. Joseph
Il Meacham has had inserted in the Edwards
vile Spectator of the 25th inst. we would OBJ
serve to the public, that the quarter section of
land referred to by Mr.. Meacham, viz. the
southwest quarter of section 6 in town north
and range west of the Sd principal meridian,
of the lands offered for sale at Edwartsville,
was purchased by Joseph Meacham on the Sd
day of January, 1917, as will appear by refer
ence to the Receivers and Registers office at
Edwardsviile. Mr.. Meacham had paid only
the first instalnent when we became purcha-
sers. ERE
Whatever interest there was in this proper
ty by virtue of the Registers certificate of the
sale of the said land, Mr.. Meacham held at the
time Of the sitting of the circuit court for the
county Of Madison, when there were judy
| ments to large amount given against MIR.
Meacham. Among them, it seems that between
three and four thousand dollars of the judg-
ments were in favor OF the Hon. Ninian Ed
wards.
The sheriff was directed by Mr.. Meacham
to levy the executions in favor of Nnan Ed
wards on the aforesaid quarter section Of land,
as well as on other property.
The sheriff III pursuance of his duty publicly
sold the aforesaid quarter section of land, at
Alton, on the 18th OF July last, at which sale the
bldderswere Ninian Edwards and Bennett Max
cy, and the land was struck off to the said
Bennett Maxcy for himself, Erast,is Brown, Isaac
Waters, and Zachariah Allen, and the sheriff
executed in due form deed of the land to the
said Alaxcy, Brown, Waters, and Allen, which
| deed was Immediately put on record And
the said Joseph Meachan regularly assigned
| the certificate for the said quarter section of
| land, which had been granted to him by Mr..
M'Kee, formerly Register of the Land Office,
IN the card Reuuptf Mayc Erac
Isaac Waters, and Zachariah Allen. Afterwards
| the said Maxcy, Brown, Waters, and Allen,
paid to Benjamin Stephenson, Esq. Receiver
| of public moneys at Edwardsville, the remain
| ing instruments due on said land, and delivered
the original certificate, together with the as
signment as aforesaid TO Edward Coles, Esq.
| Register at Edwardsvlle, and obtained the
patent certificate, which certificate is forward
ed to the General Land Office. The patent
| for the said land must necessarily be granted
to the said Bennett Maxcy, Erastus Brown, Isaac
1 Waters, and Zachariah Allen. III
! Under these circumstances notwithstanding
Mr. Meacham's caution, the public can judge
| of our title to the said land.
| We might not have been prompted to take
any notice of what Mr. MeachaIn has said, or
caused to be published, in relation to the said
| land, but from the circumstances Of his nefa-
rious transactions concerning the town lots and
other property in and about Alton. When
man, without having sufficient title to land,
mortgages it; afterwards lays it off into town
lots and offers them for sale; and then, with
out regard to any previous contract, again mort
cages the greater part of the lots in sum Of
between three and four thousand dollars and
again, without regard to either Of the aforesaid
mortgages, sells the lots to innocent purcha-
sers, and who are actual settlers, it is time that
the public should be made acquainted with his
character. W 81
The inhabitants Of Alton ought not to suffer
any longer Mr.. Joseph Meachan's duplicity to
be palmed upon them. 81
We should do injustice to ourselves and to
all who are, or who may hereafter become, in-
terested inthe said southwest quarter of Sec
ton in town north and range west, if we
|were not to give this candid statement to the
public. ss
But we forbear at this time, calling Mr.. Jo-
lseph Meacham's attention to the southwest
corner of the aforesaid quarter section of land.
which corner has been burnt, defaced, and the
land marks removed gsNa.gAfr Is
BENNETT MARCY,
kf4 ERASTUS BROWN,
s ISAAC WATERS, "A
! zACHARiAH ALLEN, "a
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