Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-16
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I'm 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 MIR. 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 Edwardsville,
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
Edwardsvile. tir. Meacham had paid only
the first instalment when we became purcha-
sers.
Whatever interest there was in this proper
ty by virtue of the Registers certificate of the
sale of the SAID land, MIR. Meacham held at the
time of the sitting of the circuit court fer the
county of Madison, when there were judg-
ments to large amount given against Mr..
Meacham. Among them, it seems that between
three and IL ur 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 Ninian 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, the 25th OF July last, at which sale the
bidders were Ninian Edwards and Bennett Max
cy, and the land was struck Off to the said
Bennett MaXcy, for himself Erastus Brown,i Isaac
Waters, and Zachariah Allen, and the sheriff
executed in due form deed OF the land to the
said MaXcy, Brown, Waters, and Allen, which
deed was immediately put on record And
the SAID Joseph Meachaln regularly assigned
the certificate for the said quarter section Of
land, which had been granted to him BY Mr..
.ltr cfa ut tl,..I
to the said Bennett Aaxcy, Erastus Brown,
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 Edwardsyile, 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 Benpett Maxcy, Erastus Brown, Isaac
Waters, and Zachariah Allen.
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 MIR. Meachan has said, or
caused to be published, in relation to the said
land, but from the circumstances OF MS nCla-
rious transactions concerning the town lots and
other property in and about Alton. When a
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 regardt 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.
The inhabitants of Alton ought not to suffer
any longer Mr. Joseph Meacham's duplicity to
be panied upon them.
We should do injustice to ourselves and to
all who are, or who may hereafter become, in
terested in the said southwest quarter OF Sec
ton 6 in town 5 north and range west, it we
we're not to give this candid statement to the
public.
But we forbear at this time, calling Mr. Jo-
scph Meacham's attention to the southwest
corner of the aforesaid quartersecton OF land,
which corner has been burnt, defaced, and the
landmarks removed.
BENNETT MAXCY,
\ ERASTUS BROWN,
ISAAC WATERS,
ZACHARIAH ALLEN.
Alton, Sept. 29th, 1619-tf