Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-11-20
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
JAMES w. BESANT AND MARGARET A
BESANT, HIS WIFE,
JOSEPH E. COLLIER AND OTHERS.
nthe Circuit Court for Montgomery County
asa Court Of Equity.


rNHE OBJECT of this suit is to procure II
Il Decree for the sale Of certain real estate,
lying and being in Montgomery county. OF
which Henry A. Collier died seized aud pos
sessed, for partition among the heirs AT law of
said in,esate.
The bill states that the said Henry A. Col
lier was in his lifetime seized and possessed
of certain lands lying and being in said Mont
gomery County, which was conveyed 10 him
by certain lgnatius Davis by deed bear
ing date the twenty ninth dar OF September,
IN the year eighteen hundred and twenty
and recorded among the Land Records OF
said county, in Liner Y, folus 497, les, and
which are particularly described in said deed
which is filed with the bill MS Complainants
Exhibit A and being so thereof seized and
possessed, some time in the year eighteen
hundred anu thirty three departed this life,
intestate leaving as his only heirs at law and
legal representatives. brotherand sister, viz
Joseph r. AMI Rachel A Collier, and two
children OF u deceased sister, Mary p Collier,
who had intermarried with certain Henry
Clark and had departed this life before the
death of The said Henry A. Collier.
| The bill further states that the said Rachel
A. Collier intefmarried with Il certain Thomas
5. Reid who had died sometime in the year
| eighteen hundred and seventy-one, leaving
the Complainant, Margaret A. Besant, her
only child and heir ut law; that the said
Joseph p. Collier married. aud some time in
| the year eighteen hundred and hfty-two de-
| parted this lie, inlestute. leaving widow,
Ann Collier, and six children, viz. Joseph
B. Collier, who resides in the States of One,
gon, james T. Collier, who resides in the
State Of Ohio, Henry A. Collier, who is mar
red and with his wife, Catharine, resides in
the State of Illinois John w Collier, who
is also married and with his wife, Jane re-
sides in the State Of Ohio; Burkhart l. Col
her, who also resides in the State Of Ohio :;
and Mary NJ Collier, who ntermarried with
certain George Mccormick and resides with
her husband in the State of Ohio; that the
said Ann Collier. widow Of the said Joseph
I p. Collier intermarred with certain il
liam Mccormick, and also resides in the State
of Ohio and that the two children of The
said Mary p Clark, the deceased sister OF the
id Henry A. Collier are James II Clark
who resides in one Of the Western States, and
| Elizabeth who intermarried with certain
Jackson Clineham and resides with her hus-
band in one of the Western States, hut in
which of the said states the companants do
moi know.
The bill charges that the said laads are not
susceptible OF division among the parties en-
titled thereto, without loss or injury TO the
parties interested, aud that the compliments
are entitled 10 have the same sold aud the pro-
ceeds OF such sale distributed among the said
parties in proportion 10 their respective in
! tertsts.
Tie PRAYERS of the bill are for n sale Of the
| said lands and a distribution of the proceeds
thereof among the parties entitled thereto in
proportion 10 their respective interests, and
| for general relief.
The hill further states that the said Joseph
Il. Collier James T Collier. Henry A. Collier
aud Catharinc Collier, his wife, John W. Col
lier ahd Jane Collier his wife, Burkhart L..
Collier George Mccormick and Mary NJ Me-
| Cormick his wife, Ann Mccormick James
II. Clark, Jackson Clingham and Elizabeth
Clnghnm, his wife, do not reside in fine State
of Mary land
Ii is thereupon, this 30th day Of October,
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy
four, by the subscriber, Clerk Of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, adjndged and
ordered that The compliments by causing q
copy of his order TO be inserted in some
newspaper published at Rockville in said
Montgomery County, once in each OF four
successive weeks before the first day Of Deccm-
Der next, give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANTS of the substance and object Of this
! till and warn them to appear in person or by
solicitor, on or before the first day Of March
next, to answer the premises; and show cause,
II any they have, why decree ought not to
pass as prayed
T.. b. PRETTYMAN, CIk.
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Tesi:
nov 6-4t b. B. PRETTYMAN, CIR.