Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
IN CHANCERY.

g. J; GROSS, ADMINISTRATORS OF
STEPHEN TOWNSEND'S ESTATE.
In CHANCERY, ORLEANS COUNTY, FEBRUARY
TERM, A. D. 1897. ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Whereas there has been filed in my office by the
Orator. Maria Buchanan, of Barton in the ounty
of Orleans and State of Vermont, petition of
and G. j. Gross of Bloomington, in the County of
Orleans and State of Vermont, setting forth III sub
stance that Stephen Townsend and Mary e.
Townsend his wife, of Bloomington in the County
of Orleans and State of Vermont, on the 2lst day
of October, A D. 1891, duly executed to Daniel
Buchanan Il mortgage deed of certain lands de-
scribed as follows: Being the entire home farm of
said Stephen and Maria E. Townsend at that time,
and then owne1 and occupied by them, and sltuat-
ed in the Town of Bloomington 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 on the 3Oth day of Octo-
Der, 1868, except about forty acres sold of said
premises reference being had to said Moody's deed
for more complete description of SAID premises,
the being ed in Book D; page 5I2 of
bloomington land records
And further ayerring that the 18th day of
March, 1895, the said Townsend conveyed said
premises by warranty deed to 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 Townsends, condi
toned for the payment of two hundred slXty-slX
dollars and seventy five cents; and further
that said mortgage from said Tow"sends to said
certain promissory note for the sum of eight
hundred dollars (SS00) of even date with said
mortgage, executed by SAID stephen Townsend,
order, demand with interest annually, which
said note together with large amount of interest
l. justly due and owing And further averr1ng
that said Stephen Townsend is now deceased, and
that e. j. Gross Is administrator of his estate, and
that among the assets of said estate is the mortg
age from said Gates TO the said Townsend, all OF
which i now due and owing, and the same has
come to the hands of said q. 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: tina. the said f E. Gates by virtue 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 an equity of redemption in said premises,
and praying that the equity of redemption OF the
said f. Z. Gates q. J. Gross, and the estate of the
said Stephen Townsend in the premises may be
foreclosed agreeably to law
And whereas. It being made to appear that said
service of petition cannot be made upon him, there
fore it is ordered that the said f. E. Gates be
sered to appear before the Court of Chancery next
TO be holden Newport, within and for the County
of Orleans on the 1st Tuesday of February, A. D.
1897 then and there in said Court to answer TO the
foregoing petition of the Orator, by the puollca-
of the above subsistence OF said petition IN the
Orleans County Monitor. weekly newspaper pub
lished at Barton, for three successive weeks, the
last of which publications to be not less than twenty
days prior the said February term of the sald
Court of ChanceTy-
Given under my hand at Newport, this It'll day OF
December, A. D. 1896.
H. 3. CUSHMAN, Clerk
w w MILES Solicitor Sill