Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-05-21
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
John |. Jamison and Jane Il. Jamison,
his wife, VS.. Ellen Hays and others.


TIME object of this suit is TO obtain de-
cree for the sale of certain lands in Mont
gomery county which were conveyed by a
certain Zachariah Knott 10 a certain Brooke
Jones and kezin B. 0futt, by deed bearing
date the 9th day of January, 1916, and re-
corded among the Land Records of Monlgom-
cry county in Liber S. T. s., No. a, folios lOl /,
&c, for the purpose of partition among the
compliments and defendants in this cause
The bill states that heretofore, 10 wit +; on
the twenty-seventh day Of January, in the
year eighteen hundred aud sixteen, the said
Zachariah Knott, by his deed OF that date, re-
corded among the Land Records Of Monlgom-
cry county in Liber S. 7. s., No. A, folios
l0l, &C., conveyed to a certain Brooke Jones
and Rein b. Offutt, as tenants in common,
certain lands lying and being in said Mont
gomery county, and particularly mentioned
and described in said deed that sometime in
the year eighteen hundred and fifty the said
Brooke Jones departed this life intestate as to
his undivided interest in said lands, leaving a
widow, Teresa Jones, two daughters, viz: the
complainant, Jane Il. Jamison, and Ellen
Hays, the wife of certain john Hays, and
one grandson, viz: Henry b. Jones, the son
of a deceased daughter Of the said Brooke
Jones, as his only heir-at-lsw and legal rep
resentative to whom his undivided moiety of
said lands descended by operation of law !;
that the said John Hays has since departed
this life, that the said Henry B. Jones died in
testate, unmarried, without issue and before
he had attained the age Of twenty-one years.
and that sometime in the year eighteen hun
dred and seventy-six the said Teresa Jones
also departed this life.
The bill further states that sometime in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty said
Rein B. 0ffutt departed this life having in
his lifetime made and executed with all the
formalites necersary TO pass real estate to
last will and Testament, which was duly ad-
mitted to probate by the Orphans Court OF
thei District of Columbia, and by which he
devised bis undivided interest in said lands
to his wife, Catharine Offutt; that on the
twelfth day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, the said Catherine
Offutt, by her deed Of that date, recorded
among the Land Records of said Montgome
county, in Liber S. T. s., No. 4, folios los,
&C., conveyed her undivided moity of said
lands to a certain Samuel Rainey that some
time in the year eighteen hundred and sixty
one, the said Samuel Rainey departed this
life, having in his lifetime made aad executed
with all the formalties necessary TO pass real
estate TO last will and testament, which was
duly admitted TO probate by the Orphans
Court of the District Of Columbia, and by
which he devised his undivided interest 10
said lands to his wife, Lucy B Rainey, and
that the said Lucy B. Rainey has since de-
parted this life intestste, leaving as her only
heirs-at-law and legal representatives three
children, viz: Francis II. Raiuey, Mary
Rainey and Lucy @. Rainey; that the said
Francis II. Rainey has intermarried with
certain Frances E. Rainey, and that the said
Lucy @. Raiuey has in,ermarried with a GER
tain James 4 THOMPSON
The bill charges that the said lands are
not susceptible of partition among the per-
sons entitled thereto, and they cannot be d.
vided without loss OF injury 10 the parties in
terested therein, and alleges that the CON-
plainaAts are entitled TO have the same sold
and the proceeds o. such sale divided amoug
The parties entitled thereto in proportion TO
their respective interests therein.
The prayers OF the bill are for sale for the
purpose Of partition aud general reliei.
The bill further states that the said Francis
II Rainey and Frances y. Rainey, his wife,
Mary Rainey and James F. Thompson and
Lucy G. Thompson, his wife, do not reside in
the State Of Maryland.
II is ihereupon this 9Th day Of MAY, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, ad;udgeu
and ordered that the complainants, by caus-
ing copy OF this order 10 be inserted in
some newspaper published at Rockville, in
said Montgomery county, once in each Of
four successive weeks before the seventh day OF
June next, give notice TO the said absent de-
PENDANTS OF the substance and object OF the
bill, and warn them 10 appear in this Court
in person or nv solicitor on or before the
seventh day Of September next TO answer the
premises and show cause, II any they have,
why decree ought not 70 pass as prayed.
y. B. PRETTYMAN, Crk,
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True copy-Test.
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