Court Record: Samuel Graham heirs against John Hornback & John Graham, 1825, Bullitt County, KY ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Transcribed by: Anne Livingston - Livings1@aol.com Date: 19 Dec 1999 *********************************************************************** 2 March 1825 Bullitt County Court Order Book B p. 186 Samuel GRAHAM's heirs, complainants against John HORNBACK Deft. and John GRAHAM and others Complainants against Samuel GRAHAM defts. This day came the parties to these suits by their Council and the Complainants filed their amended ----- herein which is certified: and the Complainants read and relied on the answer of Jno. GRAHAM filed in the suit of ROUSE vs. said GRAHAM and the Defendants also read and relied on the bill and decree in said cause: And this cause came on to be heard in the two causes as consolidated in the two bills, the answers of John HORNBECK and Sam'l GRAHAM to the first bill preferred, and the answers of Samuel GRAHAM to the Second bill filed and also on the bill and answer of deft. Samuel GRAHAM and the decree in a suit in Chancery heretofore decided in the name of William ROUSE & wife and others against said Samuel GRAHAM which decree was pronounced by the Court and the exhibits there filed. It is ordered and decreed that Said John HORNBACK did on or before the 15th day of the present month convey to Sam'l GRAHAM, William ROUSE and Caty his wife, Stephen WORKMAN & Jane his wife, John GRAHAM, Samuel GRAHAM Jr. Son of Hugh GRAHAM by deed of general warranty the Two hundred and fifty five acres of land in the bond mentioned which appears in this case, and on his failure to do so that George F. POPE be appointed a Commissioner for that purpose, and that he convey the said 255 acres of Land in the bond mentioned and deed according to which it refers to the Land Samuel GRAHAM, Will ROUSE and Caty his wife, Stephen WORKMAN and Jane his wife, John GRAHAM, Sam'l GRAHAM Jr., son of Hugh GRAHAM by deed of general warranty from the lands of John HORNBACK and his heirs and assigns and against the claim or claims of all and every person or persons whatsoever. It is further decreed and named that Whitledge OVERHALL, Surveyor of Bullitt County, John W. BECKWITH and Joseph A. BROOKS be hereby appointed Commissioners who are directed to go on the aforesaid land and ascertain the part cleared and improved by Defendant Samuel GRAHAM and on the division of Said Land which is to be done by said Commissioners into equal parts so divided said Commissioners are to allot to Samuel GRAHAM the part improved by him if practicable and consistent with the interest of the other heirs and in estimating the parts of the land the Commissioners are to Consider & estimate all of it in a state of nature, except as much as was cleared in the life time of Samuel GRAHAM dec'd, the rent of that part is to be ascertained and reported by said Commissioners the aforesaid division and report to me made after the one third of said land is allotted to Eleanor GRAHAM the wife of J. GRAHAM dec'd. A report of the aforesaid facts is to be made out of the aforesaid Commissioners by the next Court until which time this Cause stands Continued. It is further decreed that the improvements made by Samuel GRAHAM are to be estimated and reported on the part cleared by him and the part clear ed by his father specifically: it is suggested that William ROUSE is dead and the benefit of the decree is to pass to Catharine ROUSE to that aforesaid Catharine's part and the Conveyance of said portion is to be made to her.