Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-02-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SS

~ Anow1ceaifh Of PENNSYLVANIA to the Hfgh
Sheriff Of tie coiottv of Cie4rfekd. Greeting =
Whereas, at an Orphans Court held at Cearfed,
in and for the said county of Clearfed, the IIth
day OF January in the year of our Lord one tn ou-
sand eight hundred and sixty, before the Honor
orable s'muel Linn, Es1., President, and his As
sociate Judges of the Court.-In the matter of the
estate of Hannah Young decd. the petition of
Jacob Young of Burnside township Clearfield CO.,
in the State of Pennsylvania, was presented, set
ting forth that the 10th day of September An
Domini 1912, Anna Fisher et., al , Executrix
of the last will and testament of James C. Fisher
deceased. by deed recorded in Cearield county,
IN the office for ecording deeds &C. in deed book
Ill. page $50, granted and conveyed to the petit
toner certain tract or piece of land situate in
Burnside township aforesaid, being part of lar
ger tract surveyed on warrant granted TO Cas-
per Shafner, Jr, beginning at post and marked
corner of said tract, thence extending along tn e
northern line of said tract south, eighty nine de-
gress east one hundred and sixty perches to post
thence south one degree west one hundred and
sixty perches to post a black oak, tn ence
north eighty-nine degrees west one hundred and
sixty perches to post and thence north one de-
gree east hundred and six perche to the place
OF beginning. containing one hundred acres and
allowance. in trust for his mother, Hannah Young.
her heirs and assigns. That the said Hannah
Young hath since died on the 10th day of April
a. D., 1850, leaving her surviving issue nine chill
dren, te wit Jacob. the petitioner, Catharine,
who was 1ntermarried with John Pentico, now
deceased, and who resided in jasper county in
the State of Iowa, her last post Office address be.
Newton P0ily, since deceased who n
termarried with David Fulton. and who hath left
issue Hannah Susannab ermarried with Rob-
ert Owens, Peggy. lntermarried with Isaac Lee
Elizabeth, intermarried with Samuel Fulton. Fan
ny, intermarried with James McCreary, and Hem
ry Young, to whom the said land by the intestate
laws of the Commonwealth of PennsyIvania did
descend and come, the said Hannah Young having
died intestate. That the above is all the real es-
tate which belonged to said Hannah Young at
her decease and therefore praying the Honorable
Court to award an inquest to make partition of
the premises Aforesaid to and among the parties
interested therein, to wit: the parties above ma
med, IN such manner and in such proportions as
by the laws of this Commonwealth is directed if
such partition can be made without prejudice to-
or spelling the whole: but if such partition can
not be made thereof, then to value and appraise
the same, and make return according to law, as
in duty bound
And whereupon, the said Court on due proof and
consideration of the premises, awarded an inquest
tor the purpose aforesaid. Notice to the heirs re-
siding out of the State to be given by publication
in one newspaper published in the town of Clear
field. for four consecutive weeks and copy there
of mailed to their post Office address. John Young
appointed guardian ad litem, for Cyrus, Boyd s.,
Sarah, Catharine Frances and Elizabeth Fulton
minor children of Polly Fulton.
We therefore command you, that taking with
you twelve good and lawful men of your baili
wick. you go TO and upon the premises aforesaid
and there in the presence of the parties aforesaid
by You to be warned (if upon being warned they
will be present. and having respect to the true
tueISoi. anu upon the 0athS and dtflr-
nations of the said twelve good and lawful men,
you make partition to and among the heirs and
legal representatives of the said intesate in such
manner and in such proportions as by the laws of
the Comm monwcalth is directed, if the same can be
so parted and divided without prejudice to or
spelling the whole Aud if such partition cannot
be made thereof without prejudice to or spelling
the whole, that then you the said inquest to
inquire and ascertain whether the same will con-
venlently accommodate more than one of the said
representatives, of the said intestate without pre-
Judice to or spelling the whole and if So how
many twill as aforesaid accommodate, describing
each part by notes and bounds, and returning a
just valuation OF the But if the said inquest
by you to be summoned aforesaid, to make the
said partition valuation, shall be of opinion
that the premises aforesaid. with the appurtenan-
ces, cannot be parted and divided as to accom-
modate more than one of the said representatives
of the said intesate, that then you cause the in
quest to value the whole of the said real estate
with the appurtenances having respect to the true
value thereof agreeably to law. And that the
partition or valuation made, you distinctly and
openly have before our said Justices Mt ClearieId
at an Orphans Court there to be held on the reg
ular day of sessions thereof after such inauost
shall be made, under your hand and seal, and un-
der the hands and seals of those by whose oaths
or afirmations you shall make such PARTON or val
uation. And have you then and there this writ
WITNESS Samuel Linn. Esq, President of our
said Court at CIearield aforesaid the Ilth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty. JAS. WRIGLEY.
req 10, 1860, Clerk Of 0. G.