Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-05-22

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hat he had possession of it when the war
ended and was thereby its owner; both |
Jailed. In 1884, Humbert and other heirs |
sued, but failed. In 1S47, mine suits were |
brought by the heirs and failed. in 1851 |
another with the same result. But in 1871,
The greatest move yet made and on the
ground, on Old Trinity, was made
by the Rev. David Groesbeck. He attacked
Trinity on the ground that it bad cor
rupted it's own right by perverting the
purposes of the grant under which it held.
It's .'false doctrines" were attacked, and
in short, it was attempted to show that
while the grant was made to Trinity as
Protestant church, holding and propa-
eating Protestant doctrines, that corpora
ton was now neither Protestant nor the
dissemination of Protestant doctrines. Ii
was charged that Trinity corporation had
allowed the service of the Greek Church
to be performed in the church; that 1t
established s'Sister hoods (which was
Roman Catholic); that its ministers had
denied many of the doctrines set forth b,
Martin Luther. To all this Trinity coolly
replied that it was not 80, and if it was. it
didn't affect its title to the property. As
for the Synod of Dorpt, said Old Trinity,
what was it but a couvocation to settle
some miserable controversies between
Calvinists, Arminians and GOmarists, the
DEGREES of which were never accepted by
the Church of England1 The plaintiffs
were non-suited.
One more suit, though by no means
likely to be the last. is now coming on
An old Dutch Bible that formerly belong
ed to Anneke Jams, lately came to light
in the possession of Harriet van Atten of
New York. and q pair of gold earrings
that the plump little Dutch woman Of the
Seventeenth century wore. AS the pos
SCISSOR is direct descendant OF Pietel
Bogardus, son of Anneke by her second
husband. application has been made to the
courts for letters of administration with
the Intention of opening up the whole
fight again, and demanding from Trinity
an accounting. So the war is likely to be
gone over again. Fortunately the WORLD
has advanced in the last two centuries
and it will be wordy and perhaps windy
but a bloodless war. But it was not always
so in the suits to recover this much suet
for estate. In 1878 armed men tore dowr
and burned division fences, in ITS field
of grain were burned and men shot, il
| 1884 some of the claimants entrenched
themselves behind breastworks with arm
and Trinity raised an ''army" of men ant
boys who charged on the forces" of thu
heirs with great slaughter, upsetting on
old woman and showing her head into
''pail of grog," and in 1885 Joseph Forbe
the Curator of Trinity, at the head o.
the army of that corporation undertook tt
pull down line fence of the heirs Whel
the General of their army filed him will
bird shot, as he also did flour of hi
souldiers." But one heir in two hundred
years has obtained anything but defea
from Trinity, and that was Cornellu
Bogardus, who. in 1855 was paid So, 500 t.
liet his claim, but the other claim
ants were SO indignant at the treacherou
Cornelius that he was forced to leave tn
city and take up his residence elsewhere
Altogether, the suits over the Annex
JAMS estate involve more money, perhap
hundred millions of dollars, have cos
more money to the litigants. and hav
survived longer than any litigation eve
entered upon in America.