Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-04-10

SIn the Nicholson Court OF Pleas for the
State Of Pennsylyania.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA:
l.. S. DAurHIS CousTr, IS.
The Commonwealth Off
pennsylvania.
The persons claiming IT,
tie TO, interest in the SB 10 pefpetuate tcs-
veral tracts of land set tmony.
forth in the Bill, whereof
The following is on ab-
stract.
A r term Of the Nicholson Court of Pleas for
i IA the State of Pennsylvania" convened in the
Borough of Harrisburg, Pa. IAN. 20, A. d. lS4l,
lin pursuance of an act entitled "An act to settle the
estates of John Nicholson and Peter Baynton,'
passed April 18th, A. ID. 1910. Upon the petition
presented and filed in our court by Robert Orr,
John DUNCAN and William Primrose Esqs, Com
mssoners appointed as provided in the act afore-
8'aid--rep,esen,ing ",hat whereas it appears from
the records in the office Of the Secretary Of the Land
HOice in Pennsy lyania, that William p. Brady ar-
Piled for and took out of the Land Office aforesaid,
fifteen warrants, all bearing date Nov. Is. 1883, in
= the name of John Bready, Thomas Hamilton, Viii
liam p. Bready, John Boyd, William Wilson, Ben
&ismin F. Young, William Gray, William Cook,
4 Esq John Cowden, Bernard Hublcy, Thomas
Grant, Alexander Hunter Samuel Scott James
ling warrants, all Tearing date March IA, 1894, in
the names of Thomas Reese, Thomas Grant, Sam
; uc Scott, Thomas Hamilton, jeremiah Jackson, for
5four hundred acres each, adjoining each other IT.
their programme order, returned in Northumberland
County as described and set forth in the certificates
= annexed TO said petition numbered 1881 and
whereas il appears by receipt in the office OF the
&Secretary of the Land Office aforesaid, dated June
IL, 1894, certificate whereof is also to sad petition
a.. l.. ,.,1 al, 4
SOfice aforesaid Coco in specie, for SAID twenty
with clio office fees and whereas it also appears
sby the certificates of the said William p, Brady
legally executed and ecknow lodged, bearing date
August 10, 1888, the same whereof Is annexed to
: The petition, that the twenty warrants above men.
klioned were all paid by the said William p. Brady,
as the agent of, and for the and bene. of John
Nicholson, Esq., for the sole and benefit Of said
Nicholson, and was paid for with money placed in
his hands for that purpose, although from the books
9in said Land Office, /, appears that sad William L.
Brady received credit for TIC purchase money OF said
warrants. The petitioners further represent, that
. the said William T.. Brady, the witness which the
EPeloners have for proof Of the facts stated in the
Sabove bill is very age, aud infrm, the petition
Eers therefore pray the Court that rule may be
fgranlel before said Court 10 take the testimony of
) the said William Z. Brady, now Of the county Of
slDdlana, and state OF Pennsylvania, touching the
aioresaid twenty tracts Of land, due notice there
of to all persons interested, that the same will be
entered of record in said court at Harrisburg, aud
Tperpetuatcd agreeaby to the direction OF The Con
s,ution of ,his Commonwealth, and the acts Of
s Assemly in such made and provided, and to
make such further rules aud orders her,in TO the
9 Court shall seem Just and proper, &c.
4 Whereupon, January 20, 1871, the foregoing Pc
&ttion being read in open CoIt, and the residence
Eof the persons interested in the lands therein mem
StIoned not being known, the Cout order and direct
Fthat Iule I've entered 10 all parties OF persons ine.
arrested IN said lands, 10 shew cause before thi, courl
Ito be he'd at Harrisburg on the second Monday of
XApnl next, why the testimony shall moi then and
Sthere be perpeluated as applied FOR in said petition
Mand the court further order that a copy of the said
&rule and order be Published in one daily newspaper
Ain the city Of Philadelphia, one day in each week
ior six weeks successyeiy, ard a week for the
same period in weekly newspaper printed in Nor.
8 Shumberlsnd County, (where the land ies,) prior
Ito the said second Monday in April next,
Witness the Hon. Joseph B. Anthony, Judge Of
our said Court at the Borough Of Harrisburg
This twentieth day of January, A. ID. one thou
Q sand eight handIed and forty-on
Jan. Sow Ii. &. HICKOk, Clerk.
A FEW Copies Of =. The Jmi0n Choral Hdr-
Il 0sOny," consisting Of Sacr Muse, with Ger