Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-28
IN CHANCERY.
MARIA BUCHANAN W. f T. GATES

MARIA BUCHANAN vs.F E. GATES AND
CT. j. GROSS, ADMINISTRATORS OF
STEPHEN TOWNSEND'S ESTATE.
IN CHANCERY, ORLEANS COUNTY, FEBRUARY
TERM A. D. 1897. ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Whereas, there has been fled in my office by the
Orator, Maria Buchanan, of Barton in the ounty
of Orleans and State of Vermont, a petition of
and q. j. Gross of Rrownington, in the County of
Orleans and State of Vermont setting forth in sub
stance that Stephen Townsend and Mary E.
Townsend, his wife, of bloomington in the County
of Orleans aud State of Vermont, on the Dist day
of October, A. ID. 1891, du executed to Daniel
Buchanan "A mortgage deed of certain lands de-
Scribed "a follows: Being the entire home far of
said Stephen and Maria E. Townsend al that time
and then Owne3 and occupied by them, and s1tuat
ed in the Town OF Bro vungton in the County of
Orleans, containing about one hundred acres of
land be the same more or less, and beng the same
land and premises decided the said Stephen Towns
end by William p Moody OF the 30th day of Octo-
Der, 1865, except alb nut forty acres sold off said
premises reference being had TO said Mo0dy's deed
for a more complete description of SAID premises
the same being recor Ell in Book 3; page 572 of
BrowninSton land records
And further averTlng that on the 18th day OF
March, 1895, the said Townsend conveyed said
premises by warranty deed 10 f. E Gates, except
ing therein your Orators mortgage, and the said
F. E. Gates, AT the same time, gave mortgage OF
said premises back TO the said Towns ends, condi
toned for the payment of two hundred siXtysix
dollars and seventy-hve cents; ami further ayerr-
ing thar said mortgage from said Tow"sen to said
Buchanan conditioned for the payment of one
certain prOmissnry note for the sum of eight
hundred dollars (SSO0) of even date with said
mortgage, executed by SAID stephen Townsend,
ana maze payable TO the salu Ddnlcl buchanan or
order, demand, with interest annually, which
said together with large amount of interest
l. justly due and owing And further averrlng
that said Stephen Townsend Is now deceased, and
that G.. J. Gross is administrator of his estate, and
that among the assets of said estate is the mortg
age from said Gates the said Townsend, all of
which il due and owing and the same has
10 the hands of said e. j. Gross, admins
traitor aforesaid. And further representing that
she is the lawful owner of said mortgage from said
Townsends to said Buchanan and of the note secur-
ed thereby; that the said +. E. Gates ny of
his said deed from said Townsends aforesaid, and
the said Gross by virtue of the possession of the
said mortgage from said Gates to said Townsends,
claim equity of redemption in said premises
and praying that the equity of redemption of the
said +. E. Gates, @. j. Gross and the estate of the
said Stephen Townsend in the premises may be
foreclosed agreeably to law.
And, whereas, IL being made to appear that said
X. E. Gates lie without the State that personal
service of petition cannot be made upon him. there
fore il Is ordered that the said F. E. Gates be or
dered to appear before the Court of Chancery next
TO be holden at Newport, within and for the County
Of Orleans the 1st Tuesday of February, a. ID.
foregoing petition of the Orator, by the publica-
ton of the above subsistence said petition in the
Orleans County Monitor. weekly newspaper pub
1ished at Barton, for three successive weeks, the
last of which publications to be not less than twenty
days prior to the said February term of the said
Court of ChanceIy.
Given under my hand at Newport, this 7th day of
December, A. ID. 1896.
II. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk
Orleans County Court OF Chancery,
w. w. MILES, Solicitor. sill