Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-10

10 hin seems totzTeb sen treated practically
II Was adeed % TIE erovn- The term
King or Queen's farm Wa supposed 70 III
clpIe the JaHsaR, OF Bogandrs farm, and IN
! Ia5 the grant was Hnade from QDeen Annette
the corporation Of Trinity church, the validity
,EH sTe~to q which las been n frequent sub
1T of di=usSiOn IN the courts, and forms The
u-;priual feature IN the claim Of title By
Trinity church
Ths Etigati0ns over this bt d Manhattan
-ol have been Interesting and numerouS The
heirs. seeking their OwBSgAin, have brought
L, hear uuon the Vsnerabis Sh AcerdOtal IN
stfsrtsoa every implsIneEt Of the law The
city q New York has put oTNArd It's claim,
apl The state has trisi TO azert is rights As
owner ~ucceeding % the rights OF
he British crown Each lawsuit ended Ieav-
ing The church sill in DossSsoG-
he battles fought over this coveted traet
I ~ land have not been wholly forensic. Bone
aud sincE have been engaged Rs o"nbsG
HAS have been thumped and broken. as
EeH a. beartS, and shots have ben hred
For years BEFORE and sftsT the OF
tie city BY the British tbe community was
kept baIly torn UP by TIE eOutendins factions
seEing 10 obtain and hold ps&g-s1on Of me
Old EllEer. Long before the revolutionary
var this war was begun Certain Old his
tnrz contain yeTy interesting particulars OF
tbfsa bartlz IL i written that IN S1ptsm-
L.r- IIT2 dOZen mn armed with broadaIs,
unIer orders from the authorities of the
church. entered upon the premises where
one OF the BoEardus heir had located himself
On the trart, AMI tore down his fences In
IT.5 they got after a tenant u one Of The
heir. DESTROYED bis field q rye, kicked an od
woman in tbe eve M wOundad her husband
In ia Trinity church Sent out a httle army
10 destroy all The BOZanius fences Several
% tbe heirs. then located, GA the property,
determined % fight il cot. The church then
INT I'D is own feness, which were promptly
harmed by the bsiS. One witness who par
tjriuat-d in this engagement swore under oAth
that one Of ths church invaders took hod0 f
Hannah Marsh. abVur - years Of age pulled
bar down On ber kness and attempted 70 pot
bar beaIin a pail Of grog, first having dragged
bsr across the street, and gave her very
fn5e,,ut usagg otherEte.7 4 year later there
w,s a Gcht in which one Of the heirs fired L
sbotauh, wounding his Iaan and four others.
IN. claimant on the BOgardus side who :
EUL4EEEA u al III A4Aa Va ~
Br1ad. who lived in the stOckade Of the Did
fort al the foot Of Reale street. One Of the
witness in a suit brought in $50 testified
in lef9 that be knew tbs Obj lady and that she
continued m pDszssi0n % the old redoubt, re
fI,ing 10 leave until the opposing forces ac-
tualiy dug il away, when she COMPROMISED
with parues representing Trinity church
Altogether. Trinity. yenerable Trinity,
church q the chimes. high steepls and his
tgric graveyard. has l@en the source of much
gtrife and graf bitterness Of heart In all
, -,ntsst,. however, the church always came
OF victorious One by one the original claim
ant, have drOpp-l into their graves; but the
ight still went On. The descendants took II
40 All carrizl the war into Africa, other
- down u date. They have not yet sue
cuml.d Meetings are still held for the as
Sartigu u their claims. One historian says:
The CONTEST will probably continue until
through The natural increase u the multi
tudiBOus claimants the pecuniary results u
su.c-Ss would lie refused fOr each % Il
minimum"