The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-16
Pulaski Circuit Court, February Term, A. D. 1856. ln Chancery-

ceased, Defendant.
 yTvHIS day came the Complainant by his Solicitor I and the Defendant in his proper person, and tht coming fer final hearng by consent of parties and the Court having heard and considered of the bill answer, exhibits and evidence taken by in this case, the substance of the Compliments bill and exhib its appeared be- that Robert Crenden, deceased, the fourth day of February in the year of Christ on thousand eight hundred and twenty-six mortgaged t the said Complainant the slaves in said bill described to wit, Susan and her three children, Mary, Isabella and Rachel to the said Complainant against certain prossory note of date with the said gage, executed to Ann nnes, Executrx of Harry nnes deceased, by the said Crittenden principal and thu said Complainant his security for the sum of nint hundred and fifty dollars, current money of the Unet States and which said mortgage to be vod in the said Crtenden should pay off and satisfy the sait promlssory note, and keep the said Complainant free from any loss damage thereini which said mortgage duly acknowledged the thirteenth day of Febrr ary A. D. ls26 by the said Robert Crttenden, before A. H. Rennck, Clerk of the County Court for the Coun ty of Franklin State of Kentucky and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Pulaski County the Territory Arkansas, the first day of January X. D. 1885, and that the said Robert Crittenden during his lifetime trey failed to pay up and satisfy the said promissory note, tho interest thereon any part of either cept the of fityfve dollars on the nineteenth day of December, A. D. 1897, and tine fifty dollars the twentieth day of March, A. D. 1881, did Ben Desha and Absaom Fowler, Administrators, nor \ Absa- lom Fowler, surviving Administrator of the said Crit tenden pay up and satisfy the sadnote the interest thereon, any part of ether after the death of the said Crtenden, and that the said Complainant not kept harmless or free from damage loss therein but that after the death of the said Crttenden to wit on the twenty -third day of February A. D. 1885, he the said Complainant, paid up and satisfied the said note ull amounting to the sum of thirteen hundred and dol- lars and sixteen cents therefore, that the said mortgage may be orecosed and the sald slaves sold for the pay ment of the said last mentioned and the interest due thereon and to be relieved is the scope of the Com painants b Whereto the Defendant alleged, that he ,ot hos 4l tenden, deeeased that he is we'll acquainted with tht hand writing of the said Crttenden, and believes th signatures purportng to be his 10 the said note an mortgage, to be genuine and generally not denying h facts set forth in said b and that he has his posses sion Administrator aforesaid certain slaves to wit Susan and her three children, Mary Isabella and Ra che and that the said slaves have ncrease since the, have been Tn his possession, to wit two children, Charles and William Henry, and praying that eael child may be sold together with its mother and the fund arising thererom divided according to the apprais cd value of each mother and child in said answer forth Whereupon the Court here having heard and sidered of the bill answer exhibits and evidence aore said and being fully advised of and concerning the pre- misses, doth order adjudge and decree, that Absalon Fowler, surviving Administrator aforesaid do pay to thu said Complainant the ofthrteen hundred and tysix dollars and egfty.six cents being the amount st aforesaid paid for the said Crttenden by the sat Complainant, together with interest thereon from th date ct said payment to the date of this decree, before the weny-seventh day of February instant an
  1t IS further ordered, adudged and decreed that sa slaves, to wit, Susan, Isabella Mary and Rachel an their increase, Charles and William Henry be sold t. pay said debt, and that the said Defendant be, and e hereby, precluded from redeemng said slaves and tha all equity of redemption fsd slaves be- and the same hereby forever barred against the said Dcndant surv wing Administrator aforesaid and against any and all other representatives of the said Cren6en and his heirs or assgns and 1t is further ordered, adudged and de creed, that unless the said last mentioned amount be pad With interest thereon aecrung from the date of this decree according to law, before the 21th day February instan the said slaves Susan Mary Isabel and Rachel many of them may be necessary tC pay the said last mentioned amount and the interest aforesaid together with their increase, Charles and Vii liam Henry, be sold, each mother together with he child, and each mother and child to purchaser the last Monday in December, eighteen hundred ane thirtysy, at the Court House door in the City of Little Rock for cash in hand, at public vendue giving public notice thereof by advertisement published at least SIX successive weeks previous said day of sae in thu Arkansas Adyocate newspaper published in this City and that Absalom Fowler and Charles r. Bertrand b appointed Commissioners to make such sale aLd tha he or they execute deed deeds to the purchaser purchasers of said slaves so sod and that they dvid the proceeds of said sale of said mothers and chdreI into two parts according the appraised value of sait slaves set forth in his said answer; and that out of h proceeds of tho said Isabella and Rachel and of tha part of the proceeds of the sale of the said Mary and their infants corresponding to the appraset value of the mothers he satisfy the said Complanan the said sum of thirteen hundred and seventv-six dollars and eghtysx cents with the interest thereon accrung from the date ot thus decree until the same be d witt the costs of this suit and that he hold the residue of the moneys arising from said sale in his hands as assets the of the said Robert Crttenen deceased ant 1t Is further ordered that this cause be continued unt the next term of this Court.
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 JOHN P. FIELD, Crk P. c. c.
 by L. k. LINCOLN, Dept. Cpk.