Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-02-06
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I'm the Nicholson Court of Pleas for the
| state OF Pennsylvanis.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA:
| l.. s. DAUPuIN CouNTr,s 81.
The Commonwealth Off
Pennsylvania.
The persons claiming IT,
tie to- or interest in the sc SBl l., pefpetuate cs
v'ral tracts of land set timony.
forth in tho Bill, whereof
! the following is an ab-
stract.
| A I a term of the Nicholson Court of Pleas for
! IA the State of Pennsylvania" convened in the
Borough of Harrisburg Pa Jan. 90, A. D. ls4l
in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to settle the
estates of Joha Nicholson and Peter Baynton
passed April l6th A. ID. 1910. Upon the petition
presented and filed in our court by Robert Orr,
John DUNCAN und;William Primrose Esqs Com.
rnisslo'ers appointed provided in the act afure-
said-reFtesentng "that wheiens it appears from
the records in the office of,he Secretary ofthe Land
Office in Pennsylvania, tina, William p. Brady ap-
piled for, and took out of the Land Office aforesaid,
fifteen warrants, all bearing date Nov Is. 1893 in
the name of John Bready. Thomas Hamilton, Viii
liam u. Bfcady, John Boyd, William Wilson, Ben
jamn F. Young, William Gray, William Cook,
Esq, John Cowden, Bernard Iiublcy, Thomas
Giant, Alexander Huner. Samuel Scott. Jlmes
Hepburn, John Carson and also the five 4 low
ing warrants, all hearing date March Ii. 1894, IN
the names of Thomas Reese, Thomas Grant, : an
ucl Scott, Thomas Hamilton, jeremiah Jackson, for
four bundled acres each, adjoining egch other in
their programme order, returned 10 Northumberland
County, as described and set for in the certificates
annexed TO said petition, Numbered 1871 and
whereas IT apI cars by receipt in the office Of the
Secretary of the Land Office, aforesaid dated June
p 1894, certificate whereof is also to said petition
annexed, that William p. Brady paid into the Land
Office aforesaid G200 in specie, for sa d twenty
tracts, amounting in all to 5000 acres, together
with 81 Office fees and whereas it also appears
by the certificates of the said William p. Brady
legally exocut d and acknowledged, bearing date
August l3, 1898, the same whereof is annexed to
the petition, that the twenty warrants alb we men
tened were oil paid by the said William p. Brady,
the agcn, of, and for the and benefit 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
in said Land Office, i, appears that said w lam p
Brady received credit for the purchase money of said
warrants. The petitioners further represent, that
the said William p. Brady, the witness which the
petitioners have for proof of the facts stated in the
above bill is now very aged and infirm, the petition
ers therefore pray the Court that rule may be
granted brlurc said Court TO take the testimony of
the SAID William +. Brady, now of the county Of
Indiana, and state Of Peunsy sylvania, touching the
Aforesaid tWeny tracts ul lanu on due nOtCe tDtrt-
of to all persons interested, that the same wit be
entered Of record III said court at Harrisburg, and
perpetualcd agreeably TO the direction Of the Con.
siituion Of this Commonwealth AMI the acts of
Assemly in such case made aud provided and to
make such further rules and orders her,n to the
Couu shall seem jus! and proper, &C.
Whereupon, January 20, ls4l, the foregoing Pc
ttion being read in open Count, and the residence
Of the persons interested in the lands therein
toned 10, being known, the Court order and direct
that rule be en,rtd to all parties persons inte.
rested in said lands, TO shew before this court
to be he'd at Harrisburg OH the second Monday of
April next, why the testimony shall moi then and
there be pepctuated as applied for in said petition,
and the court further order that copy of the said
rule and order be published in one daily newspaper
in the city Of Phiadtlphis, one day in each week,
for six weeks succcsssely, ard a week for the
same period in weekly newspaper printed in Nor.
thumb rlani County, (where the land Iics,) prior
to the said second Monday in April next
Witness the Hon. Joseph b. Anthony, Judge of
our sid Court at the borough of Harrisburg,
this twentieth day OF January, A. ID. one thou
sand eight hundred and iory.one.
Jan. 30--6w III. &. HICKOK Clerk