The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14
CIVIL ACTION.
PETITION.

Tnedefsndan,s will take notice, thatthc pttintiT on
the 2st day July, A. d. 1856 filed IN the otce oil the
clerk the court of commOE pleas oPoftnge county,
Oho his samended petition against the defrndants,a
eging that Elisha Sears in the year A. d. 1872, maze
the following division ofhls real property among ms
childr and heirs to wit: To Chancy Sears the
plaintiff, he gave anj set off the following describe
premises, situate in the township OF ahdolh in FOR
tage county, Ohio, commencing at hc hort east cor
ner of lot number thirty three in said township, thence
running south the east line 10 land herctofore deed
ed by the said Elisha Sears to Joseph WindOr, heree
west Richard Makeys land on lot (33 thence norm
said Markley's land to post, thence Westto and
owned by Robert Alexander. thence north TO the north
line of said lot 3 thence east to the place OF Begin
ming, supposed TO contain eighty acres OF land.
To Beteey Davis, daughter, the following premises
were set ostuate in the township Of Randolph aiore-
said. commencing at the north east corner of lot NUM-
Der 80 in said township, thence running south on The
east line to a post, thence west parallel with the north
fine to the west line uf said lot thence north on the
west line to the north west corheg Of said lot thence
east to the place oboginnng, supposed to contain 70
acres of iand that the said Bctsey Davis dcd leaving
the aforesaid General Davis, Arhcr Davis Cassus Da
Wis, Darwin Davis, Celcsta Davis, her children and
10 Marvin Sears was set of the f5owing premises
situate in the townships Of Randolph, AND Stow in Por
ago and Summit counties, Ohio about 80 acres IN said
toavnahp orRaudolph commencing at the south west
corner of thu piece of land set on TO the sau eSe IA
Wis thence running east on the south line land set
of to the said etsey Davis the centre OF tie highway
leading from Randolph to Canton. thence along the
centre of the highway TO land heretofore deedod by the
said Elisha Scars to the said Hannah T.. Glass thence
west along the north line of the said lahnah's land TO
the line of lot 49, theGce Eorh on lot line to the place OF
beginning. Also piece of land situate n said town.
ship of Stow knswn being the north qarter of lot
nun Der GG, bounded the west by lot line, on the
north and east by lot ncs on the south by line run In
such manner ide the north half OF said lot into
two equal parts.
To Nathan Sears the following premises were set off
situate in said township of Randolph, commencing ut
the south east of land heretofore decided by the
said Elisha Sears the said Hannah L. Glass on lot g.
thence running south the east line to post in the
line of lot number g. thence west to post III the
west line of said lot, thence north to post IN the west
line of said lott thence east along the south line OF said
Hannah L.. Glass land to the place Of beginning, sup
posed to contain II acres of land.
Peonerurtler alleges thatthe said Elisha Searsgave
the said Lucy A. Morean and Jason Morciah twelve
hundred dollars for their interest IN said premiscSwhch
has been fully paid. Petitioner further alleges That the
sal Elisha Sears did in his life time execute and dev-
or the said Hannah L. Glass deed OF the premises
set off to CT under the aforesaid arrangement The
plan also states that the aforesaid parties in the years
S43 aud 1874 took possession Of the aforesaid premises
as the same set Off to each, under the aforesaid
arrangement in his own right. and each have ever
since occupied the as his own and each nave put
lasting and valuable improvements on said premises
That the said Elisha Sears promised to convey the
aforesaid premises to the aforesaid parties under the
aforesaid arrangementas heame isheretofOre set forth
respectively above stated, but neglected so to do
until his death, which in january, 1855 Therefore
the paintpays that the parties or decreed
to convey by deed their interest respectlvel! in the
aforesaid premises to each in his own right AS above
set forth. Defendants required to answer by the
23d CT August, 1856. - go;
July %. 1856, 50-Gw