Pittsylvania County, VA - Court Order Book 16 (?) (partial)

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This is from Pittsylvania Co. May Court 1815, Order Book 16, Page 469:

Polly Stockton and Samuel Stockton, Patsy Stockton and Hiram Stockton by
their next friend Polly Stockton, John P. Stockton, Ichabod Stockton &
Edith Stockton- Plaintiffs
        against
Peter H. Stockton, John Parrish & Keziah his wife, James W. Taylor &
Phoebe his wife, John Smith and Stella Smith, Camilla Smith, John Smith,
Samuel Smith and Ralph Smith by John Smith their father and next friend,
and James Stuart and Elizabeth his wife- Defendants.
   This cause came on this day to be heard upon the Bills and answers
and arguements of counsel- which court rescinding so much of the Order
made in this cause at the January Court in the year 1812 ___
commissioners therein named to make partition of the Estate of John
Stockton, dec'd.-  It appearing by the ___ of the defendants that John
Smith, James W. Taylor, John Parrish and James Stuart have received by
way of advance to their several wives, full satisfaction out of the said
Estate- and the complainants no longer desiring that ___ Estate should
be divided-  It is ordered and decreed by consent of the parties to the
said suit, that one third of the tract of land lying on the waters of
Sandy River in the County of Pittsylvania of which the said John died
seized and on which he resided containing nine hundred and thirty six
acres be confirmed to the --- Polly Stockton to hold as her dower of the
said Estate-  and the remaining two thirds of the siad tract --- to the
other complainants-  and that the infant defendants Hiram Stockton,
Camilla, John and Samuel --- allowed six months from th time they
severally arrive to the age of twenty one years to show cause if any
against this decree-  and that the costs of this suit b e apportioned
among the complainants & defendants ___ their respective interests.

The John Smith and his children Stella, Camilla, John, Samuel and Ralph
mentioned is Maj. John Smith, Jr. of "Lewis Island".  He married Agnes
Stockton, daughter of John Stockton, in Pittsylvanid Co. on 7 Dec 1790.
The daughter Stella Smith married Dr. George Washington Clement in
Pittsylvania Co. on 1 Dec 1811 in my line.

Submitted by Richard Kesler