Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-04-17

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A + sterm of the rNchol.on Couf, Of Pleas for
~ the-Sate Of Penny ylvania," convened in the
Borough of Harrisburg, Pa, JAM 20, A. d. ls4l,
in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to settle the
estates of John Nicholson and Peter Baynton,'
passed April 10th, A. ID. ls40. Upon the petition
presented and flied in our court Ivy Robert Orr,
John DUNCAN and William Primrose Esqs, Com
mssioiers appointed as provided in the act atorc.
said-represen,ing ''ihat whereas it appears from
the records in the Office of the Secretary Of the Land
Offcc in Pennsyivania, that William T. Grady ap-
piled for and took o. the Land Office aforesaid,
ifteen warrants, ali bearing date Nov Is. 1898, in
the nauye Of John Bready. Thomas Hamilton, Will
lian, p. Bready Join Boyd, William Wilson, Ben
iar,in +. Youns, William Gray, William Cook,
Esq 3ohn Cdwden, Bernard Hubiey, Thomas
Grant, Alexander Hunter, Samuel Scott. 5ames
Hepburn, John Carson ;-dsd also the five follow
ing warrants, all hearing date March "a, 1894, in
the names Of Thomas Reese, Thomas Grant, Sam
,ei Scott, Thomas Hamilton Jeremiah Jackson, for
four hundte1 acres cuch, n5,:r;ng each other in
their programme order, returned in Northumberland
County as described and set forth in the certificates
anne xed to said petition, Numbered 1881 and
whereas it apJears by receipt in the office OF the
Secretary Of the Land Office, aforesaid dated June
., I794, certificate whereof Is also to sax petition
annexed that William p. Brady paid INTO she Land
| Office aforesaid COCO in specie for sad twenty
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with Gle Office fees end whereas it also appears
| by r.ie certificates Of the said William T.. Brady,
| legally executed and acknow crlgcd, bearing date
! August 49, 1888, the same whereof is annexed 10
the pcliron, thai the twenty warrants above men.
toned were all paid ny the said William p. Brady,
the agent Of, and for the and benefit OF John
Nicholson, Esq., for the sole use aud benefit of said
| Nicholson, and paid for with money placed in
his hsp1s fer that pe-poSn, although from the books
IN Seia Ian nj n.
Brady received credit FOR the purchase money of said
warrants. The petitioners further represent, that
the said William =. Brady, the witness which the
petitioners haVe for proof Of the facts stated IN the
above BILL is new very aged and hrfirm, the pettlon
! ers therefore pray the Court that a rule may he
granted before said Court TO take the testimony Of
the sail William =. Brady, OF the county Of
| Indiana, and slate of Pennsylvania, touching the
aforesaid twenty tracts of land, on dec notice there
! Of 60 az pergons Interested, that the same Will be
tntefed of record in said court at Harrisburg, and
| perpeuaicd agreeaby to the direction Of the Con-
slitution Of this Commonwealth, and the acts OF
| AssemIy in such case made and provided, and 10
make such further rules aud orders her,in to the
Court shall seem just and proper &c
| WhereupOn, January 20, iS4i, the firero.ng Pc
| tion being read in open Co,it, and the residence
OF the persons interested in TIE lands ihe.en men,
tioTcd not being knowr, the Court order and direct
mat rule be eNtred TO all rar,i,s persons inte-
fes.ed ~ SAID lands 90 shew cause before this court
10 he held :: Harrisburg on the second Monday Of
! A,"u next, Why the testimony shall mol then and
there be Pepetuated applied fol in said petition,
and the court further otder that copy of the said
rule and OF iJer BE published in one daily newspaper
4 in the City of Phad'lphia, one day in each week,
for six weeks successfully, ard once week for the
same period in a weekly newspaper printed in Nor
| ,humberand County, (where the land hes,) prior
to the said second Monday in April next
Witness Tie Hon. s"sdph n. Anthony, Judge of
| our said Court at the borough Of Harrisburg.
this twentieth day Of January, A. ID. one thou
sand eigh, hundred and forty.Onr. -.
Jan. 30-6w H. L. HICkOK, C'erh.