Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-11-13
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
JAMES w. BESANT AND MARGARET A.
BESANT HIS WIFE,
JOSEPH E. COLLIER AND OTHERS.



THE OBJECT Of this suit is TO procure a
Il Decree for the sale OF certain real estate,
lying aud being in Montgomery county. oil
which Henry A. Collier died seized aud pos
sessed, for partition among the heirs al law Of
said n,esiate.
The bin states that the said Henry A Col
ier was in his lifetime seized and possessed
ofceriain lands lying aud being in said Mont
golnery County, which was conveyed TO him
by II certain lgnatius Davis by II deed bear
ing date thetwenty ninth da" OF September,
III the tear eighteen hundred and twenty-six.
and recorded among he Land Records OF
said county, in Liter Y, folos 4o7 49s and
which are particularly described in said deed
which is filed with the bill ms Compartments
Exhibit and being so thereof seized and
possessed, some time in the year eighteen
hundred anu thirty three departed this life,
ntestate leaving as his only heirs al law and
egnl representatives. brother and sister viz
Joseph 7 ami Rachel A Collier, and two
children OF IL deceased sister. Mary p. Collier,
who had inlermarried with certain Henry
Clark and had departed his life before the
death of the said Henry A. Collier.
The bill further states that the said Rachel
A Gollierintermarried with certain Thomas
y. Reid, who had died sometime in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, leaving
the Complainant Margaret A Besant. her
only child and heir nj law; that the said
Joseph p. Collier married and some time in
the u ear eighteen hundred and ifty-two de-
parted this lite, intcstate. leaving a widow,
Ann Collier, md six children, viz: Joseph
Il. Collier who resides in the States of one
gon, James T. Collier, who resides in the
State OF Ohio, Henry A. Collier, who is MARI
ried and with his wife. Catlarine, 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 Burkbari /. Col
lier, who also resides in the State Of Ohio
aud Mary NJ. Collier who intermarried with
q certain George Mccormick and resides with
her husband in the State of Ohio; that the
said Ann Collier, widow Of the said Joseph
p Collier, intermarred with Il certain viii
liam Mccormick, and also resides in the State
Of Ohio; and that the two children Of The
said Mary p Clark, the deceased sister oil The
s,iG Henry A. Collier are james II Clark.
who resides in one Of the Western States, and
Elizabeth, who intermarried with a certain
jackson Clingham and resides with her hus-
band in one Of the Western States, but in
which of the said states the complainants do
no, know.
The bill charges that the said lands are moi
susceptible OF division among the parties en-
titled thereto, without loss or injury 10 the
parties interested, aud that The complainanls
are entitled TO have the same sold aud the pro-
cceds OF such sale distributed among the said
parties in proportion to their respective in
terests.
The prayers Of the bill are for sale of III,
said lands and II distribution Of the proceeds
thereof among the parties entitled thereto IL
proportion 10 their respective interests, aud
for general relief.
The bill further states that the said Joseph
Il. Collier James T Collier Henry A. Collier
and Catherine Collier, his wife, John W Col
ler aid June Collier, his wife Bnrkhart l.
Collier George Mccormick and Mary N Nc
Cormick his wife, Ann Mccormick, james
II Clnrh, Jackson Clingham and Elizabeth
Cingham, his wife, do not reside in fine State
Of Maryland.
il is thereupon, this both day Of October,
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy
four, by the subscriber. Clerk Of the Cirruii
Court for Montgomery County, adjndacd aud
ordered. that the complainants by cnusing a
copy Of his order 10 be inserted in some
newspaper published at Rockville, in said
Montgomery County, once in each Of -four
successive weeks beiore the first day oi Deccn-
Der next, give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANTS Of The substance and object OF this
bill and warn them 10 appear in person or l,y
solicitor, on or before the first day Of March
next, to answer the premises aud show cause
II any they have, why u decree ought not 10
pass as prayed.
y. B, PRETTYMAN, Cpk.
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
Trne copy--Tesl
nov e-4t Z. b. PRETTYMAN, Cl'k.