Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-10
IN CHANCERY.


SIZE F'is, or f. gE,RMoYT Essex county, TO-
CHARLES W. SMITH VS.. JOHN n. HICKS,
JOSEPH y. BROWN, ROSALTNE t. Il.
RHODES, ELDAD "a. RHODES, ELLA Il.
RHODES, sALLIE Il. RAY.
Whereas, Charles W. Smith Of lancaster in
the county Of Coos and state Of New hampshire
has hle'i in ESSEX. County Clerks office his peti-
ton, setting forth that John II. Hicks of Boston
~ tae county of Suffolk and Commonwealth Of
Alassachusetts, and Joseph ID. Brown Of Concord
IN the county OF MiddleseX in said Common
wealth, ON the 18th day of May, A ID. 1874 duly
executed 10 Jared [. Williams mortgage deed
OF certain land situated in Guildhall and Lunen-
burg in the county of Essex aforesaid, tO-wit
Tho westerly half of the Governors Right, so
called, in Guildhall, bounded sOutherly by Con-
nectcut river, westerly by Lunenburg, nOrtherly
by the northermost line of said Governors Right,
aud easterly by land occupied by William Hop
kins, containing $50 acres, more or less. Also
the three following described fifty acre lots in
said Guildhall, to-wIt: Lot No. "A of the original
right of Daniel Mckay; lot No. p of the original
/ right of Thomas Darling and lot No. % of the
/ original right of Elisha Whittlesey, all of the
| first division OF lands in said Guilihall. Also
/ lot No. 20 in the first division of lands In said
/ Guildhall, the same being designated and known
| as "Glebe Lot" Also lots numbered 43 and AZ of
/ the second division of lands in Lunenburg afore-
| SAID, the Whole together constituting the farm on
| which the said RoSaline L. 7. Rhodes, Eldad \.
Rhodes and Ella T. Rhodes now reside. Condi.
toned for the payment of a certain prom;
| lssory nOte Tor SIN thousand seven nunufeu
dollars, dated May IA, 1874, signed by
said John 7. Hicks and Joseph ID. Brown
payable to said Jared |. Williams or or
der in one year from the date thereof, with inter
est annually, which is now justly due and owing
and has not been paid according to the effect o.
the same, and the same has been duly assigned
to the petitioner. And the petitioner further
says that on the 18th day of December, A. ID
1878 the said John Il. Hicks having become tht
sole owner of the equity of redemption of th'
aforesaid lands, sold and conveyed the SAINT
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alne I. T. Rhodes aud Eldad A. Rhodes both o
Guildhall aforesaid, and on the same day sale
:. John T. Acks sold and conveyed the said Gleb
Lot to Ella L. Rhodes of said Guildhall and OF
, T. I. Rhodes, Eldad A. Rhodes and Ella I
Rhodes executed and delivered to the said Johl
I. Hicks a mortgage deed of the whole of SAT-
thousand or twenty-five hundred dollars, whcl
the petitioner believes to be still due and unpaid
And on the 2Sth day OF September, 1876 the sal
Eldad 4. Rhodes Rosane T. L. Rhodes and ELI
r. Rhodes ex cuted and delivered to Sallie i
2 Ray of Lancaster aforesaid q mortgage deed Q
, the same lands to secure tho payment OF on
thousand dollars, which last sum the petitione
believes to be still due and unpaid.
: Wherefore the petitioner prays that the equit
, of redemption of the said John T. Hicks, JOSEF
d. Brown, Rosaline It. T. Rhodes, Eldad A
Rhodes, Ella L. Rhodes and Sallie b. Ray in tn
: premises may be forecosed agreeably to the pre-
visions of the seventy-siXth section Of chapte
twenty-Bine Of the General Statutes, and that tn
honorable Court OF Chancery VIII make 6ucn othe
f and further orders and DEGREES in the premise
as shall appear just and reasonable, and,
Whereas it appears that the said John L. Hick
: Joseph ID. Brown and Sale b. Ray are residin
f out of the State of Vermont so that subp@I
cannot be served on them, notice is hereby give
to the said John L. Hicks, Joseph ID. Brown an
Sallie B. Ray, and they are hereby notified to al
r pear before the Court of Chancery next, to /
held at Gudhall within and for the county
Essex on the third Tuesday of March A. d. 1877
J then and there to make answer in the premise
and abide such orders and DEGREES as shall /
made therein, and the petitioner is directed I
cause the substance of said petition together wit
this order to be pubis shed three weeks success
sively in the Essex County Herald, Il newspape
, published at Guildhall in said county of Esse3
the last of which publications shall be at leai
twenty days previous to said Bird Tuesday
{ March, 1877.
f Dated at Guildhall this 9th day of Januar,
1877.
CHARLES E. BENTON, Clerk.
, w. S. LADD, Solicitor. 5