Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-02-04
VIRGINIA.:

At Circuit Superior Court of Law, and
"A Chancery, held for the County of Spotsyl-
vania, at the Court House in the Town of Ere
dericksburg, on the 18th day of june 1888,
Humphrey Peake and others, plaintiffs,
Ann P. Leachman and others, Defendants
The defendant, Ann E. Leachman, having in
termarried with William Dickinson, that fact is
suggested on the Record and the subpoena
awarded in this cause to answer the amended
bill Of the plaintiffs having been returned exc
cuted on the defendant, Ann P. Leachman, and
more than four months having elapsed since the
return day thereof and she still failing to an
swer the same the said amended bill is taken
for confessed as to that defendants and it ap-
pearing to the Court that the plaintiffs have
proceeded in the mode prescribed by law against
the absent defendants John Love, Charles l.
Love, and Thomson F. Mason and those de-
PENDANTS still failing to answer, the said amend
ed bill is taken for confessed as to those defend
ants and this cause coming on to be heard on
the bills Of the plaintiffs, the answer of John
Leachman, and the answers of the defendants
| John Love, Ann ?. Leachman, Ann E., Robert
| c., Sarah A.. William r. and Thomas l.. Leach
man, infant children Of John Leachman by Ann
P. Leachnan, their guardian ad Item, the exa-
mination of witnesses and exhibits, and was ar
gued by counsel:-On consideration whereof
the Court doth adjudge, order, and decree, that
unless the defendants, or some one OF them,
shall deposit in the Farmers Bank of Virginia,
at Fredericksburg, to the credit of this cause,
the sum Of five thousand dollars, with interest
thereon at six per cent. per annum from the
Goth day Of Jnne, 1919, and also the following
sums to wit three hundred and sixty dollars,
with the like interest from the 14th day of Aug
uSt 1918, and nine dollars and nnety-three
cents; ten hundred and sixty five dollars, with
the like interest from the 2lSt day Of August,
1873 and nine dollars and ninety-three cents;
rod and fn 1OIlo tbo
like interest from the 2Sth day of August 1918,
and nine dollars and ninety-three cents; nine
hundred dollars with the like interest from the
18th day of September, 1918, and nine dollars
and nnety-three cents, on or before the expira-
ton of six months from the date hereof then
and in that event. the Court doth adjudge, order
and decree, that Lawrence w. Berry and Tho
mas B. Barton Or one of them, who are hereby
appointed Commissioners for that purpose after
first advertising the time and place of sale, for
four weeks successfully, in one or more news
papers published in the State ofVirginia or Dis
trict Of Columbia expose to sale, at public auc-
ton, the Tracts fLand conveyed by the deeds
of the 18th day ofJanuary 1918, and ofthe 1st
day of june 1920, and which are filed as exhi-
bits in this cause, for as much cash as may be
sufficient to defray the expenses ofthe sale, and
upon credit of one and two years as to the re-
sidue the purchase money, taking bonds and
good security from the purchaser or purchas-
ers, and deed Of trust upon the premises. to
secure the payment thereof and the said Com
missioners are hereby required to report their
proceedings herein to the Court
Copy: Teste,
JNo. JAS. CHEW, C. C.
~ The undersigned, Commissioners, or one
of them, will expose the LAND in the decree
aforementioned, for sale, at public auction, up
on the terms specified in the above decree, at
the Court House. at Brentsve, in Prince Will
liam County, on the first Monday in March next
The said Tract of Land lies in the neighborhood
of Buckland Mills and Greenwich, and is said to
contain about Seuem Hundred Acres and is the
same land conveyed by John Lane, by deed of
the 18th January, 1918, to Humphrey Peake,
William H. Hampton, and Amos Alexander,
and by deed Of the LIST day of January, 1920 to
Thomson T. Mason.
LAWRENCE w. BERRY,
THOMAS B. BARTON,
Commissioners.
Fredericksburg, Jan. 25, 1884.
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