The daily gazette., 1880-12-10
An Heir to s5, 900, 900.
THE DESCENDANT OF ONE OF ENG
LANDS PRIME MINISTER'S LIVING
ON THE CHARITY OF FRIENDS.

THE DESCENDANT OF ONE Or bNo-
LANDS PRIME MINISTER'S LIVING
ON THE CHARITY OF FRIENDS.
From the Philadelp phia PI less.
In a small secondstory room OF
the house No. l9 Beck street-a lit
tie thoroughfare running off from
Front street, above Christian = re-
sides Mrs. Elizabeth Perceval in an
almost starving condition. Although |
pinched by want, according to her
story, Mrs. Perceval is the rightful
heir to an estate estimated to be
worth SIS 100000. The old lady is a
widow, over 10 years OF age, unedu-
Gated, picture of neatness, and
most amiable and confiding in her
disposition. AS she related the
story of her wrongs yesterday the
tears streamed down her furrowed
cheeks. "If they'd only let me
have enough to keep soul and body
together" she exclaimed, "until
God sees proper to call me away,
it's all / ask; they can have the
rest" 1t appears that her husband,
David Orr Perceval, was the grand
son of Mr.. Perceval, first lord of the
treasury and chancellor of the
exchequer of Great Britain in the
latter period Of the reign of George
Ill, and during the regency of the
then Prince of Wales, afterward
George w. David Orr Perceval's
father offended the prime minister
by marrying a German lady below
him in social standing, and for this
reason Lord Perceval sent his son
with his wife to this country and
purchased for him a tract of land,
five miles square, in Montgomery,
in this State, in what she thinks was
called Bakerstown or Beggarstown.
Three sons and two daughters were
the fruit of this marriage. One of
these sons was David Orr Perceval.
The other children, Mrs. Perceval
thinks, died without marrying; but
of this she is not certain.
Her husband, whom she believes was
tho last surviving heir, died in March,
1879. When the estate of David Orr
p, rceval's father came to be settled il
was found that the deeds 10 the property
were missing. David Orr Perceval put
tho matter into the hands of an attorney
named Moore, and after considerable
: time, and nothing being accomplished
her husband took the papers and placed
u them in the hands of another lawyer
named William Bull. Mr.. Bull, sht
> says, went to England several times IL
the interest of the estate, and gave strong
Q assurances to her husband that there
q would be no difficulty in securing hi
o patrmony. Soon after the death of he
n husband, Mrs. Perceval says that al
n traces of both Moore ard Bull wer'
= lost, and that she has never been able 4
10 gain auy tidings of either, with the ex
l. ception of one instance, and that wa
? soon after the death Of her husband
ID when Bulls clerk called on her an
q asked if she was in need Of money
10 Her circumstances have since become S
,e stlaitened that but for the kind CHART
re of her neighbors she would have ofte
le have suffered for the necessarles of life
ID Recently the impoverished widow ha
placed the matter In the hands of Nj
NJ Frank S. Simpson, an atlorney-at-laV
Nv at No. til Walnut street, but owing
= the loss Of all papers in the case, an
Mt absence Of both the former attorney
e. Moore and Bull, and Mr.. Simpsons il
w ability to find any trace of the wher
ls abouts OF either, he has not been able
is accomplish anything satisfactory as We
She says that the records of Monigomel
u, county will be searched TO see VIII
=. light they may throw on the subjec
ae Such is the story related by this enfe
as oed, suffering old lady. 1t is matt
v. of history that a Lord Perceval vi
In shot in the House of Commons on Il
re- l1tb of May, 1872, by Liverpool me
NJ chant named Bellingham, who had 10
s. some property in Russia, and who a
La. piled to the British government to il
n. demnify him for his loss.
les Lord Perceval declined to make d
in loss good informing Bellingham that d
lls government could take no notice
n losses arising from private specuIatio
ne This enraged the merchant to such {
a. extent that few days subsequently
,s nu shot Lord Perceval through the hea
a.. kiling him instantly. Bellingham W
he convicted of the crime and hange
to Parliament was adjourned for a bri
)u season in consequence of the shocki
md act, and on reassembllng f50,000 ($25'
- OO0) was unanimously voted to t
70 70 Perceval family, an annuity of f2,O
III. (Sl0,000) to the widow and an annui
il If $4,000 ($l5,000) to the eldest SC
no The prime minister left twelve childre
re- As Mrs. Perceval declares that her hu
EN- bands grandfather had but one sc
rn- then If that be true these twelve ch
zen dren consist of one son and elev
n. daughters. This may be true, and
~ y may be that this poor old woman
ith mistaken in her facts, and that th'
EN- we're other heirs to this vast estate, {
ex- If which she sincerely believes she
been wronged.
md RAILS