COURT ORDERS: Hargis - Pulaski Co, KY ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Fischer, mspiggy@fidnet.com, 28 Jul 2001 ==================================================================== Pulaski Kentucky Court Orders 1815-1835 Volume 4 1820-1825...FHL #0804647 September Court 1824...On the mo of Jane Hargis a poor widow who wishes to appropriate for herself 100 acres of land agreeable to an act of the Legislation of the Comlh of Ky---December 21st 1820 who produced before the Court James Hargis Daniel Stogsdill two creditable Witnesses who prove that she the said Jane Hargis has not Estate in her own possession to the value of $100 and the same is Ordered to be Certified to the Auditor of Public Accounts. ------------ Pulaski County Kentucky Court Orders 1799-1815... FHL #0084646 Page 290...February 23 1802 A contest among between Thomas Jacobs and William Hargis as to land under the act of assembly for setting and improving the vacant lands of the Commonwealth the parties & their Witnesses being fully heard the Court are of the opinion that a Certificate be granted to said Hargis for one Hundred acres of land agreeable to the aforesaid act of assembly and located as follows (to Wit) William Hargis enters one hundred acres of land Beginning at Shadrick Herrins North Corner thence Northwards thence Eastward thence Westwardly thence Southwardly to the Beginning which was ordered to be Certified ------------ Pulaski County Kentucky Court Orders Volume 5-A June Term 1835...On the mo of James Hargis, It is or. that William Bradley Esqr. James Sears, James Adkins & William Stogsdill, who or any three of them and they are hereby appointed to View the nearest and Best way for a road Beginning at John Randolphs Mill on Buck Creek, to Intersect the the Whitley Road near John Roper? and make report to the Court of the Convencing and Inconvincing that will as to Individuals as to the Public should said road be open September Term 1835...p.48 Ordered that James Hargis be and he is hereby appointed Surveyor of said Road and......... Volume 5-B January Term 1842....More than thirty days having elapsed since the death John Brinson decd & his widow having failed to apply for administration on his estate. On motion of James Hargis ordered that he be appointed administrator of the estate of Said John Brinson dec'd Whereupon he took the oath required by law and with Lorenzo D. Phelps & Henry Warson his securities are entered & acknowledged bond to the comlth of Ky in the penalty of $200--- conditioned as the law directs And on motion of James Hargis adm of the estate of John Brinson decd ordered that Wm Bradley Esqr. Thos S Clark Thos. Stogsdale & Wm Stogsdale or any three of them being first duly sworn do inventory & appraise the personal property of slaves if any, of which said John Brinson died seized & possessed -------------- Pulaski County Kentucky Court Orders...FHL #0804646 Page 418...October Court 1803 Nelly Hargis Pltff vs Hervey James Deft on recognizance This day came the parties aforesaid by their attornies on the said recognizance being insufficient It is Ordered to be quashed Pulaski County Kentucky Court Orders...FHL #0804647 March Term 1819...Ordered that the Clerk of this Court bind out to Timothy Ruark Michael Hargis, Orphan of Nelly Hargis to learn the Famerstead & agreeably to an act of the General Assembly Ky in such cases made & provided the said Michael Hargis will be eight years Old on the 17th day of June next