Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19
THE HawpsJJJB ~ ESTATE.
George @. Morton Sets Forth why He Ii
Agnin Asking tho Stnte For Il.

Again Asking the State For Is.
Editor Gazetti d. Journal: notice that in
your paper Of yesterday you print dis
patch from Dover in which your CORE
spondent at that place saws "AIorton is
here again with his bill. The House at the
last session very properly knocked it out
by vote Of about Is to g."
| what The grievance of your correspond
ent may be with "Morton'' do not know.
Tic, was opposed to my bill two years ago
and IS apparently taking his earliest oppor-
tunlty 70 create n sentiment against me
now. 3ellevins that your paper wishes to
! pc ialr TO all ask in order to correct any
false impressions, that may have been Gre
ated by that reference, for hearing
through Your paper. First | wish to say,
that under misunderstanding, believe.
OF the circumstances of my case, my bill
| was defeated in the last General Assembly,
but not by vote Of l6 to 5, as your CORE
| spondent has stated, but by vote of II to
D. Among those voting in favor of my bill
were Messrs Gray, Sackett and Whitemru
men as conscientious and capable as any
in that body.
The grounds upon which ask the Leg
islatllre TO grant me the 81 acres of land in
White Clay Creek hundred are briefly
these: About the year 1926 my uncle,
George g. Morton, married the widow of
james Hampshire, who bought the farm
about year before his death, and died
leaving no children or known kindred. |
spent the greater part of my boyhood with
my uncle and aunt upon this farm. NY
aunt lived on il until 1874. Four years be-
fore, her death she made will devising
the land to me, believing that the property
was hers and that she had right to dis
pose Of it.. Her husband my uncle, was
entirely willing that she should so dispose
of it and often spoke of it as mine
and OF my right to it after his
DEATH. as | proved by number
81 Witnesses at the hearing before
the legislative committee two years ago,
and by the testimony of Mrs Grow herself
who testified on that occasion that the
personal property of my uncle, George G.
Morton, was to be hers al his death, and
the land mine. | hold that my aunt, the
wife Of James Hampshire, had the best
right Of any person except an heir of
James Hampshire to dispose of that land
snc having lived upon it almost 50 years
after her husbands death, and having
paid OIL in conjunction with my uncle d
mortgage Of several hundred dollars left
upon i at James 1Iampshire's. DEATH
Mary NJ, Casperson, now Mrs. Grow, came
to live with my uncle and aunt some time
before the latter's death and after il con-
tinued to live on with my uncle after her
death. From the testimony of the
witnesses at the hearing before men
TONED it appeared that she ran
the business and handled the funds and
that during that time my uncle sold a
house and small lot and the money was
spent. When my uncle died in November
1851, there was no money to pay funeral
or other expenses incidental to such time
and paid out of my own pocket more
than $500, no part of which have ever re-
celved from the estate, and when as adj
ministrator of my uncle / came to have
his personal estate appraised Miss Casper
son produced a bill Of sale for it all; She
handled my unces money during the
later years of his life and She got all his
personal property at his death; not a cent
OF it coming to me, although had to Law
out what was and is large sum to me.
She has had the benefit of the farm
since my uncle's death more than
three years ago, and since the adjourn
nent of the Legislature of 1889, |
am Informed that she has cut and sold the
timber from the farm without particleof
law or right for so doing. She has been
more than paid for any services she ever
rendered to anybody on that farm, and
think It about time for the rights of others
to receive some consideration, your cores
pendent ut Dover, Mrs. Crow and those
who, through their intermeddling and bad
advice have made this trouble to the con-
trary notwithstanding. Let your cores
pondent at Dover ask the best people of the
neighborhood where that land lies, the
people who are acquainted with all the
circumstances OF this case, what they think
of Morton and his bill'' and of Mrs.
Crows rights in the matter.
GEORGE @. MORTON,
WILMINGTON Dr. March 18th 1901