The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-02-03
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The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania to the
Sheriff OF Cambria county. Greeting:
Whereas Dr.. William a. Vickroy, George WICK
row George Gettys and Mary his wife, lorineily
Matilda Vickroy, Louisa Nickroy, and "ltii''in @
Hancock and Charlotte his wife, ,fo1meTly Cual
lotte Slick, late Of your county, were 41
TO be in our Court of Common fIeas IOr tiie
county of Cambria before our Judges at LbeIlS-
burg on the first Monday of December, a. u
eighteen hundred and ffty-two, to answer hu-
win A. Vickroy, of plea, wherefore MHeIcao
they the said Defendants and the SAID PIalhtlH,
tooetber and undivided do hold the following
described tenements or premises with the ap-
purtenences to wit =: One tract OF Ianu con-
tanning one hundred and seventy acres, known
ms the Coleman Farm" being part OF a survey
in the name of Ephraim Williams, originally
containing four hundred and thirty four acres,
situate in Jackson Township, Cambria county,
adjoining other lands of the parties TO this ult,
lands of James Williams, Henry Beck and
others one other tract containing one hundred
and forty-One acres and sixty-three perches
known as the E'Garber Farm and beng part
of the survey in name of Ephralm Williams
above mentioned, situate in jackson Township,
Cambria county, and adjoining lands above de-
ecribed, lands of James Williams Henry Beck
and others also one other tract OF unlmpr0yed
Iunu containing one nundred ana ntty-HVe acres
and thirty-eght perches, being part OF larger
tract surveyed in name of Benjamin Williams,
originally containing four hundred and forty-one
and one fourth acres, situate in jackson Town
shin, Cambria county, adjoining lands OF
Ephraim Williams, Henry Beck, William Todd,
John Barclay and the residue of said survey,
with the appurteneDces, OF which they deny
that partition be made between them, according
TO the laws and customs of this Commonwealth,
AMI the statues in such case provided, and un-
justly permit not the same to be done, &c. And
it was in such manner proceeded in, in court,
that it was considered that partition should bel
made between the parties aforesaid, OF the ten
ements aforesaid, with the apburtenences.
Therefore we command you, that taking with
you twelve honest and lawful men Of your bail |
iwick, by whom the truth of tire matter may be !
better known, in your proper person you go to I!
the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenences,
and that there, in the presence of the parties |
aforesaid, by you to be forward, if they shall I
be willing to be present, the said tenements,
with the appurtenences, by the oaths and af- !
frmations Of the said twelve honest and lawful
men, respect being had to the true value Of the !
tenements aforesaid with the appurtenences, |
into ten equal shares parts you cause to be |
parted and divide so that neither the said Plain
tiff nor the said Defendants, respectively may |
have more of the tenements aforesaid, with the |
appurtenences, than it pertaineth to them sever |
ally to have. If equal partition in value as
aforesaid, cannot be made of any share or pur-
port there, by the same inquest, or oaths and
afirmations aforesaid, you have power to equal
ize such partitions or purports, by Valulng the
purpOrts respectively, and to award that any
one or more shares or purports shall be subject
to the payment of such sum of money as shall
be equal to the difference IN value of any other
share or shares, purport or purports, and re-
turn the same with said inquest !; and you fur
ther have power, by the same inquest and oaths
or affirmations as aforesaid to divide the said
tenements, with the appurtenences, into such
number of purports as shall appear to the said
Inquest most convenient and advantageous,
without regard TO the number of parties in in
terest, and to value each purport. But if tho
said inquest shall be of opinion, that the tene-
ments aforesaid, with the appurtenences, can
not be parted divided without prejudice to
or spelling the whole then we command you
that you cause the said inquest to make just
valuation and appraisement Of the said tene-
ments, with the appurtenences, upon their oaths
or affrmations aforesaid, due notice having first
been given to the several parties or persons con-
cerned interested therein to appear, to appear
if they shall think fit, at the time and place of
holding such inquisition, and that the partition
or valuation and appraisement, or valuation and
appraiSements, so by you distinctly and openly
made you have here in our said Court of !
Common Pleas for the county of Cambria be-
fore our Judges at Ebensburg, on the first Mon
day of March next, under your hand and seal )
and under the hands and seals of those by
whose oaths or afirmations you shall have made !
the same, that such further proceedings may be :
had rs to law or justice shall appertain. And
have you then and there the names Of those by
whose oaths and afirmat tions you shall have
made the same, and this writ. Z
Witness the Honorable George Taylor, Presi-
dent of our said Court at Ebensburg the thir-
teenth day of December, in the year of our
Lon d one thousand eiga hundred and ifty-two s
r. L. JOHNSTON, Protpy. {
December so, 1852-l0-dj. II