Franklin County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Perdue, Meshack March 8, 1826 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Janet King JPerdue192@aol.com March 31, 2009, 11:37 pm Source: Franklin County Court Records Written: March 8, 1826 Recorded: March 8, 1826 To the worshipful Court of Franklin County in Chancery filing the bill of complaint of your orator Meshack Perdue admin of Daniel Perdue decd humbly represents That on the 18 day of Sept 1809 a certain Daniel Ward Jr here after called Deft executed his bond to your orator intestate Danl Perdue for the sum of sixty dollars under the penalty of $120 for a value, consideration & with a collateratol bond there to annexed which has never been complied with which said bond is herewith filed as part of this bill. Your orator expressly charges that as part of said debt aforesaid was never paid by said Daniel Ward Jr either to your orator or his intestate & that shortly after the execution of sd bond Danl Ward Jr left the state of Virginia and was absent for many years that he sometime after this death of your orators intestate & after your orator had administered said deceased estate sd Danl Ward Jr returned to this County, your orator saw him he thinks about the year of 1822 and Deft obliges mention to him his said debt and promised solemly to pay the same in some short time and the next day afterwards went off again out of Virginia and to parts unknown to your orator & is now out of Va and the whole of said debt remains unpaid your orator further charges that Daniel Ward Sr lately departed this life having previously made & published his last will & testament which is duly proven & recorded in the clerks office of this court in which the sd testator makes awards of property money to sd Daniel Ward Jr which sd will is filed aforesaid is hereby refered to & reputed to be made & taken as part of this bill and in which will Asa Ward Exe -- and others are named & apppointed exec of sd Will & Asa Ward has taken probate thereof in due form of law Your orator therefore prays that Danl Ward Jr. Asa Ward Exe of Danl Ward Sen decd be made Deft to this bill & full hue & perfect answer make to each & every allegation herein contained each on oath that sd Danl Ward Jr say whether he does not justly owe the debt aforesaid on the 18th day of Sept 1809 of sixty dollars whether any part of the sum has ever been paid in any manner & whether he did not acknowledge the same to your orator as adm of the intestate that Asa Ward exec in & fore estate of Danl Ward decd answer & say whether he has not ---- the -- the Sp in Chancery & restrain my order endorsed by orators Att at Law was executed on him, money or property or both in his hands belonging to sd Danl Ward Jr and how much & whether he has not went --- satisfy & pay the debt aforesaid & costs of this suit or how much he has that he be decreed to pay this amt to sd orator. That you grant an order of publication against sd Danl Ward Jr. according to law & restraining order against said Asa Ward Exe as aforesaid finally order that he pay the debt & cost to your orator & such other & further order relief & decree in the premises as his case may require & equity dictate & as in duly bound your orator will ever pray. W. Cook PC Filed 8 March 1826 A deed from Danl Ward to Asa Ward April 1827 in C. Office PERDUE; ADM. [] BILL & BOND WARD 1826 June 7th ANS. FILES FOR WARD EXAM. GENL REPL. COM ____ 1828, Feb. 4th Set for Hearing ______ 1847 March 2d Dismissed by order of Meshack Perdue's executors Additional Comments: Daniel Ward Jr. was the son of Daniel and Betsey (maiden?name) Ward. Daniel Ward Jr. moved to Blout Co., TN. He was living in Blout County when he sold 40 acres of land on the 11 April 1827 to Asa Ward of Franklin Co., VA. Daniel Perdue committed suicide 2 July 1810 and Meshack Perdue was made his executor as well as guardian to his children. Apparently the above case was never resolved and finally dismissed in 1847 by Meshack Perdue's executors. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/franklin/court/perdue449gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb