SMITH COUNTY, TN - COURT - Marble Stoner vs. Willeroy Pate & others
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MIDDLE TENN. SUPERIOR COURT RECORDS, TENN. ARCHIVES,
LOOSE PAPERS IN MSS. DIVISlON, CARD INDEX FILE.

MARBLE STONER, Adm.
vs.
WILLEROY PATE, MILLEY PATE, STEPHEN PATE, JNO ANDERSON & RHODA, 
his wife, JAS C. FERGUSON & LAURY (?) his wife, JAS CARTER & 
JANE, his wife, JOHN THOMASON & AGNES, his wife, BOOKE PATE & 
SABE PATE; a/ANTHONY PATE, dec'd

Be it remembered that at August Term 1827 of the Supreme Court 
of error & appeall held for the third judicial circuit at the
court house in Sparta & on the 31st day of August 1827 this 
cause came to be heard before the Honorable Robert Whyte, 
Jacob Peck & Henry Crabb(?) the presiding judges & was heard 
upon the bill of the complt thro answer, replications exhibits
the testimony taken in the cause and arguments of counsel on 
both sides when it appeared to the court that ANTHONY PATE
the ancestor of defts employed the sd MARBLE STONE in l795 
to purchase URIAH STONES interest in the negroes in the bill
mentioned - that the sd MARBLE made sd purchase in that year 
pursuant to his agreement with sd ANTHONY - that the suit in
Va. was carried on for sd ANTHONY's benefit - that he paid 
MARBLE STONE for making sd purchase from URIAH STONE this 
sd ANTHONY's trustee & agent - & that in atro(?) paid sd 
MARBLE the consideration advanded the sd URIAH for his equity 
of redemption in the negroes and this court being of opinion 
that the assignment procured by MARBLE STONE from URIAH STONE 
in 1806 as alledged in his bill & the interest acquired by 
it enured to the benefit of ANTHONY PATES representatives the 
defts in this suit - whereupon the court doth order adjudge 
& decree that the bill of the (??) be issued with costs & that 
execution issue

Recorded Augt 1827



NOTES: By JINKS PATE LEE  (Sept 1999)

DAR records list the children of Anthony Pate as:
Thomas Pate
Stephen Pate
Elizabeth Pate m. Michael Hogg
Rebecca Pate m  Losson McCabb
Edward Pate m. Lucy  (He is actually Son of Willeroy -  DAR records are 
incorrect)
John Pate
Willeroy & Leroy  (same person)

   However, this document seems to indicate that his children were:
   My DAR application with these corrections was accepted:

Rhoda Pate m. John Anderson
Laury Pate m. James C. Ferguson
Jane Pate m. James Carter
Agnes Pate m. John Thomason
Sabe Pate  (d.  1827)
Booker Pate
Stephen Pate (d. 1846)
Willeroy Pate (d. l844)
John Pate (d. 1837) - not listed in suit, was living in VA
and wife or daughter??  Milley
The suit does not mention:
Martha Pate, w/o Henry Huddleston
Elizabeth Pate, w/o Michael Hogg ) I have never found proof of this child
Rebecca Pate, w/o Losson McCabb  ) I have never found proof of this child