Chancery Court at Jonesboro, May Term 1840
Daniel Barkley Adm'r of John D. Guin, Deceased vs. The Heirs, and Creditors of said Guin.
Pursuant to the decree of the Court at May Term, 1840 in the above cause. I will proceed to sell at the Court House, in Jonesborough, on the 8th day of August next, One Hundred & Forty Two Acres of Land in Washington County, and a negro boy. The property will be sold on a credit of 6 and 12 months - particulars of sale on the day. A discription of the property can be had on application to the Administrator.
Seth J. W. Lucky, Clk. & Master. June 10, 1840.
The Whig, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, July 15, 1840; Issue 10; col C - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
NOTICE IN DOWER.
To Anthony Hartsell, Jonah Lilburn, and his wife Mary, formerly Mary Hartsell, Thomas Jackson and Delilah his wife, formerly Delilah Hartsell, Martin Hartsell, Orville P. Nelson, and Hannah his wife formerly Hannah Hartsell, James M. Curr and Emaline his wife, formerly Emaline Hartsell, William Love and Nancy his wife, formerly Nancy Hartsell, and Isaac W. Hartsell, heirs at law of Jacob Hartsell deceased.
Take notice that at the next term of the Chancery Court to be held for the counties of Johnson, Sullivan, Carter and Washington, at the Court House in Jonesboro in the Eastern Division of Tennessee on the first Monday in November next the undersigned, as the widow of Jacob Hartsell deceased, who died intestate, will apply to said Court to have dower assigned her in the mode pointed out by law in all the lands of which the said Jacob Hartsell died seized and possessed in said county of Washington, to wit: a tract of 370 acres, more or less on which he lived at the time of his death; a tract of 200 acres more or less, called the Buffalo mountain tract, adjoining Martin Hartsell, Philip Parks, John Boothe, William Love and Isaac W. Hartsell, and a tract of 30 acres adjoining the lands of William Love, James M. Carr and Joseph Hunter. You can attend and oppose said application if you see proper.
NANCY HARTSELL, Widow of Jacob Hartsell, dec'd. August 1st, 1843.
The Whig, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, September 23, 1840; Issue 18; col D - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
Chancery Court at Jonesborough, First Chancery District. Mary Houston vs. William Houston and others, August Rules 1840.
It appearing from the Allegations of the Bill that William Reneau, one of the defendants, is not an inhabitant of this State, on motion of the compt. by the Solicitor, it is ordered tht publication be made for four successive weeks in the Tennessee Whig, calling upon the said defendant to appear at the court house in Jonesboro, on the first Monday in November next and answer said bill, on the same will be taken as confessed as to him, and the court will proceed to hear the same exparte, and decree accordingly.
Attest, SETH J. W. LUCKY, C. & M. Sept. 23, 1840
The bill in substance charges, that compt. intermarried with John Houston Deceased in 1829, and continued to live with him for several years, until she was divorced by the Supreme Court from Bed and Board. John houston died in 1839, possessed of a large estate real and personal consisting of three tracts of land and a number of negroes, other personal property Previous to the marriage of the comp. with the said John Houston, he had executed deeds of conveyance, for two of his tracts of lands and all of his negroes to his sons James and William Houston, which conveyances are alleged to be fraudulent and void being made to avoid a debt. It is alledged as consoleation was given, and that the said John until the time of his death claimed both the land and negroes, paid the taxes, and exercised other acts of ownership over them, that no adverse claim was set up by the sons until the seperation of the said William Houston executed an instument in 1837, showing that conveyance to him was without consideration agreeing to divide the property at the time of his death. The bill also alledges, that Enos McFall, who administered on the Estate of the said John Houston, and the heirs and destitutes of the said John have filed a bill in the Chancery Court at Jonesboro, against the said William Houston alledging the fraudulent nature of the conveyances to him, asking to have them set aside and destitutes made. The Compt. in her Bill asks to have the conveyances to William and James both set aside, and have her distributions now of the personal estate of her deceased husband assigned her - dower allotted and a years support makes all the heirs of said John Houston parties, of whom William Reneaw, in right of his mother is one, and a prayer for general relief.
Sept. 23, 1840
The Whig, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, September 23, 1840; Issue 18; col D - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
State of Tennessee Washington County} Circuit Court, October Term, 1843Rebecca Lamon, Widow of John Lamon, deceased vs. The Heirs & Representatives of John Lamon decd.
In this case, it being made to appear to the Court that the said John Lamon departed this life in April 1843, leaving the said Rebecca Lamon his Widow, and also the following children and heirs, viz. Phebe Lamon, and Elizabeth Lamon, who intermarried with Elkana Keener, Rebecca lamon who intermarried with Abraham Hartsell, Emanuel Lamon, Thomas Lamon, Adam Lamon, and Lewis Wethorford, Rachel Wetherford, and James Wetherford. Children of Catherine Wetherford dec'd who was a daughter of the said John Lamon. And a part of said Heirs reside out of the limits of this State. It is therefore ordered by the Court, that publication be made in "the Whig" a newspaper printed in the town of Jonesborough, calling upon said Heirs both residents & non residents, to appear at the next term of this Court to be held for Washington county, at the Court House, in the town of Jonesboro' on the 4th Monday of February 1844, to show cause if any they have why said Court shall not appoint Commissioners to lay off and assign to Rebecca Lamon, Widow & c. Dower in all the Real Estate of which her husband, John Lamon died seized and possessed of.
JOHN RYLAND, Clerk Nov. 25, 1843
The Jonesborough Whig, and Independent Journal, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, November 29, 1843; Issue 29; col E - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
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