The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-04-16

1NHE OBJECT of this suit is to procure
i a decree for the sale of the real es-
tate of the late Nathaniel NJ. McGregor,
situate in Prince Georges county in this
State, and Il division of the proceeds of
sale thereof amongst his dcviseeS in ac
cOrdance with the provisions of his last
will and testament
l. The bill states that the said Nathan
iel NJ. McGregor departed this life in the
year 1870, leaving ii last will and tesla
ment executed in due form of law to pass
real estate, Il duly certified copy of which
is filed with the bill.
=. That in and by said will the testatOr
directed the said estate, after the death or
widowhood of his wife, Susan f. Nc
Greyor, to whom it was devised for life
or widowhood should be divided into six
equal parts, amongst his six children Mary
Eliza, Susan Euphemia, isabella, Rodcr-
lex, Agnes Woods, and John Francis, eX
cept as hereinafter stated, and that the
said distribution should be made by his
said son Roderick McGregor who was
named as Executor of said will and who
duly qualified as such, who before making
said distribution was directed to pay to
the said Susan F. McGregor in addition to
her said one sixth part the sum of six hun
bred dollars to be deducted out of the
proportion of his daughter Mary Eliza,
and also To pay to the said Jesse Ewell
his grandson four hundred dollars out of
the proportion devised to his said daugh
ter Mary Eliza and to pay unto his daugh
ter gnes Woods in addition to her pro-
portion the sum of one hundred dollars to
be deducted ont of the proportion due to
his son Roderck McGregor, and to his
daughter the said Isabella the sum of one
Il Il
portion lue his said son J John F. McGregor.
3. That the said Susan E. McGregor or
widow of the said Nathaniel NJ. McGregor
departed this life in the Month of January,
1894, having never married again, and
having lived on said real estate, of which
the said Nathaniel NJ. McGregor died,
seized and possessed and which is describ
ed in deed from Edward w. Belt and c.
c. Magruder, trustees. to the said Nathan
iel NJ. McGregor and is recorded in Liber
F. S. No. 3, folio 200, one of the Land
Record Books of the said county, con-
tanning one hundred and seventy acres.
A. That the said Roderick McGregor and
Margaret E. McGregor, his wife, conveyed
all their interest in the SAID Real Estate,
devised to the said Roderick as aforesaid
to the said Susan E. McGregor by deed
dated the Goth day of September, 1878,
duly recorded in Liber J. w. B. No. Z, TO
Ito 264, one of the Land Record Books of
the said county.
). That the said Susan f. McGregor did
not in her life time acquire any other real
estate in the state of Maryland, other than
the farm here in before described devised
to her rs aforesaid for life or during her
widowhood, by the said Nathaniel Nj. Nc
Gregor, which property only remains to
be divided amongst his aforesaid devisees,
according to their several interests under
the said will.
g. That the said John F. McGregor is
intermarried with the said Florence Nc
Gregor, that the said Isabella is the widow
of T.Somcrvell Dorset, that the said Agnes
Woods is the wife of Thomas T. s. Bowie,
and the said Mary f. McGregor is the wife
of the said John r. McGregor, and the
said Margaret E. McGregor is the wife of
the said Roderick NJ. McGregor.
!. That although more than three years
have passed since the death of the said
Susan E. McGrcgor widow as aforesaid,
the said Roderick NJ. McGregor, Executor
of the i'll of the said Nathaniel Nc
Oregon, has taken no steps to make dis
tribution of the said Real Estate among
the said several parties entitled thereto
and as he is directed by said will, to do,
and the bill charges that the complainants
are unable to procure il division of the
said real estate, and distribution of the
proceeds of sale, according to the several
interests of the parties aforesaid, without
the aid of the said Court
8. That the said Agnes W. Bowie and
Thomas T. S. Bowie, her husband and
Mary E. McGregor and John X. McGregor,
her husband, are non residents.
1t is therefore, this 3rd day of April,
1897, ordered by the Circuit Court for
Prince Georges county. sitting in Equity,
that the plaintiffs, by causing a copy of
this order to be inserted in some news
paper published in said Prince Georges
county once in each of four successive
weeks before the Sth day of May, 1897,
give notice to the said absent defendants
of the object and substance of this bill,
warning them to appear in this Court in
person or by solicitor on or before the gath
day of May next, to shGw cause if any
they have why decree should not be
passed as prayed.
JAMES b. BELT,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for p G. Co.
True copyl JAMES B. BELT, Clerk
Test: of the {. c. for i. G. Co
April 9TH 1S9,-5w.