Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-09-26
Inthe Circuit Court for montgomery County,
as a Court Of Equity.
June Term, 1873.

rEHHE object Of this suit is 10 obtain de-
a cree for the sale Of the real estate OF
Joseph $. Watkins, deceased or so much
thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose
Of paying SO much of the debts Of the said
Joseph S. Watkins as may remain unsaiisHed
by tho application Of the personal estate Of
said deceased.
The bill states that tho said Joseph s.
Watkins was indebted unto the complainant,
Samuel d Watkins, in the sum OF Que hun
dred and fifty dollars on account of his two
single bills, eaca bearing date the 10th day
OF September, 1868, for the sums Of one hum
dred dollars, and fifty dollars respectively,
payable ten days after date with interest
from date.
| The bill further states that the said Joseph
S. Watkins being indebted as aforesaid unto
the complainant and also unto divers other
persons in large sums Of money, and having
both real and personal estate Of considerable
value, sometime in the month Of May, in the
year 1873, departed this life intcstate, leav-
ing as his only heirs-at-aw and Representa-
ltiyes, three brothers and one sister, viz: Sam
uel J. Browning, John T. Watkins, Richard
| w. Watkins and Rizpah Hyatt, who had
intermarried with certain Philip HYATT,
and whose said husband has departed this
| life; and six children of o deceased sister,
Sarah Lewis, viz Columbus Lewis ntermar-
ried with a certain 49, Lewis, R. Cronen
Lewis intermarried with n certain --- Lewis,
j. franklin Lewis, Arnold Il. Lewis, Mary
! E. Lewis intermarried with certain William
Purdum and Rizpah Lewis ntermarried
| with certain Nathan Burdett aud also
three children Of another deceased sister,
| Elizabeth Monkey, viz: Joseph r. Monkey in
iermarried with Ellen j. Moxley, Grecnbnry
Moxley intermarried with Melzena Monkey,
and Riapah Monkey who intermarried with
| a certain William d. Ewalt
The bin further states that administration
of all and singular the personal estate Of the
said Joseph S. Watkins hath been lately
granted 81 the Orphans Court of said Mont
gomcry tnupty unto the said Richard W
Watkins who in virtue thereof hath possess
ed himsH Of the said personal estate but
the conpla mt is informed and believes that
the safnc y not sufficient to discharge all the
debts dar ard owing by the said Joseph s.
Watiins az the time of his death, and The
complainant is advised that the said personal
estate ID The hands of the said Richard w.
Watkins ought to beapplied to the payment
OF tho claims OF the complainant, and the
other sreditors ofthe said JosephS. Watkins,
deaeasea 80 far forth as the same will extend,
ard thatany deficiency of the said personal
estate ought to be supplied by sale Of tile
,na estate of their aforesaid debtor, but the
eemp5ainant is unable to obtain adequate re-
lief agginst the said real estate without the
cid 81 ibis court
TIE prayers OF the bill are for an account
of the personal estate, and an application
thereof 10 due course of administration TO
the payment of the debts of the said Joseph
$. Watkins, and for a sale Of the real estate
Of said deceased, or so much thereof as may
b necessary, for the payment of so much of
the said debts as may remain unsatisied by
lie application Of the personal estate, and for
general relcf.
The bill further states that the said Rizpall
Hgatl, II. Cronen Lewis and Lewis, his
wife, j. Franklin Lewis, Arnold t. Lewis
Joseph r. Monkey and Ellen J. Moxley, his
wife, Grecnbury w. Moxley and Melzena
Monkey, his wife, and William D, Ewalt and
Rizpah Ewalt, his wife, do not reside in the
State Of Maryland.
tits, therefore, this fifth day OF September,
in the year eighteen hundred aud seventy
three, adiudged and ordered that the COM
plainant by causing copy OF this order to
be inserted in come newspaper published at
Rockville in said Montgomery county, once
in each of four successive weeks before the
sixth day Of October next give notice TO The
said absent defendants Of the object and sub
stance OF this bill and warn them to appear
in person or by solicitor ON or before the
sixth day Of January, in the year eighteen
hundred and scventy-four, TO answer the
premises and show canse, If any they have,
why decree ought not TO pass as prayed.
Il. y. PRETTYMAN, Crk.
True copy--Test:
sep i2-4t i. B. PRETTYMAN, elk.