The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-07-18
10 the supreme Judicial Court
In.


/ The premises hereinafter de.
seribed are wild lands in the County of
Piscataquis in the State of Maine.
. Plaintiffs claim an estate or
state of Massachusetts given in 1885
10 Elijah Atherton, Ansel Capen.
Simeon T. Drake. Thomas R. Drake,
Lemuel Gay Charles Packard. iona
ihan Reynolds, James Swan. william
y swan, and Eliab Whitman.
3. August Il, 1895, said persons
named above as grantees gave mort,
cages severally of their undivided
ownershps to said Arnold F. Neiles
and to said Samuel Weston. said
mortgages were duly recorded in the
registry of deeds in the County of Som
erset in the State of Maine, in which
county tire premises then were, and
are now standing of record undis-
charged. To Arnold f. Welles as fol
lows: by Elijah Anterior in book 40
page 1874; by. Ansel Capen in book 40
page 342; by Simeon T. Drake in book
10 page 1874; by Thomas r. Drake in
book 40 page 337; by Lemuel Gay in
hook 40 page 333; by Charles Packard
in book 40 page 332; by Jonathan
REYNOLDS in book 40 page 1913; by
lanes Swan in book 40 page 1886; by
William D. Swan in book 40 page 1885,;
nv Eliab Whitman in book 40 page 339
TO Samuel Weston as follows; by
Elijah Atherton in book 40 page 800;
by Ansel Capen in book 40 page 800
u
S51: by Thomas R. Drake in book 40
mage 353; by Lemuel Gay in book 40
page $50; by Charles Packard in book
40 page 356; by Jonathan Reynolds in
book 40 page 355; by James Swan in
book 40 page 352; by William D. swan
in book 40 page 355: by Eliab Whit
man in book 40 page 357: -.
4 Defendants are all persons, II
any. claiming under either of said
Plaintiffs have no reason to be-
1ieve there are any such claimants and
have no knowledge of any They
aver that said mortgages have long
since been satisfied and should no"
be discharged of record
6 Plaintiffs aver that the premises
are wild lands. They claim an estate
of freehold therein and aver that they
and their predecessors in title have for
more than eighty years next prior TO
the filing of this bill held such open,
exclusive peaceable, continuous ana
adverse possession thereof as COMFORTS
with the ordinary management OF Wllu
lands in the State of Maine.
: The premises are seventy seven
two hundred and eighty eighth parts in
common and undivided in the north
mart of township one range fourteen
west of the east line of the state,
known as the Spencer Bay Tract,
bounded, north and west by the grants
to the Middlesex Canal and to Days
Academy. south by the shore of Moose
Little known as the Blake Tract east
by township one range thirteen west
of the east line of the state.
g. Wherefore the plaintiffs pray lor
a decree of the Court in equity quiet
ing and establishing their title to the
premises so far as said mortgages are
concerned and all persons claiming
under them.
on the foregoing bill it is ordered
that notice thereof be given said de-
PENDANTS by publishing a copy of the
same with this order thereon three
weeks successfully in the Piscataquis
Observer published at Dover in the
County of Piscataquis and in the IN
dependent Reporter published at Skow-
hogan in Somerset County, the last
publication in each paper to be at
least thirty days before the second
Tuesday of September next that they
nav appear at a term of the supreme
Judicial Court to be held at Dover in
Pfscataquis County on the second
Tuesday of September. 1918. at ten
o'clock in the forenoon. then and there
to answer to said bill and abide the
Judgment of Court therein.
Dated at Auburn. Maine, July 10,
1918.
JOHN 4. MORRILL,,
Justice of the Supreme Judicial court:
true copy of Bill and order OF
Court thereon.
Attest:
3w29 CALVIN w. BROWN, Clerk.