Felts_v_Felts

#1904 FELTS, LUCY, ET AL VS. FELTS NATHANIEL ET AL

[EL-74 or EC-74?] 32 to copy + 1 LAND GRANT $2 to copy

GABRIEL SLAUGHTER, ESQUIRE Lieutenant Governor (and acting Governor) of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME - greeting:

Know ye , That by virtue and in consideration of a Certificate Number [602 or (102?] the state price paid without Interest) granted by the County Court of Logan in August 1802 agreeably to an Act of Assembly for settling and immproving the Vacant Lands of this Commonwealth, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Archibald Felts assee of William Bowler

a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Four hundred Acres by Survey, bearing date the twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and seven, lying and being in the county of Logan, on Gasper River, and Bounded as followeth.. To wit, Beginning on a post oak on a line of said Felts additional claim, thence up the River with the meanders thereof S15 W35 poles, thence S60 W40 poles thence S45 W6 poles to an Ironwood, and white oak Corner to James Mars on the bank of said River, thence South54 E50 poles to three post oaks Corner to said Mars and on a line of Humphrey Posey, thence N13 E14 poles to two Black oaks & post oak Corner to said Posey, thence with his line S40 E120 poles to a post oak, another Corner to said Posey, thence S40 W40 poles to two white oaks cornering on Posey's line thence South30 East186 poles to a post oak, and Spanish oak, on Harry Lees Military line thence with the same N23 East565 poles to three post oaks, thence N82 W928 poles to a post oak, in a line of [?] the former [L??y?] [?] with a line of the same S10 East 80 poles to a stake, South East corner of the same, and corner to his additional Claim, thence with a line of the same S77 E179 poles to a stake, thence South23 W100 poles to a stake, thence [South70?] W135 poles to two post oaks, thence north70 W60 poles to a post oak, and double white oak, thence north63 West80 poles to the Beginning.

With its appurtenances: To have and to hold, the said Tract of Parcel of Land, with its appurtances, to the said Arch Felts ...[seal paper covers words]...ever.

In Witness Whereof, the said GABRIEL SLAUGHTER, Esquire Lientenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affized at Frankfort, on the twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [sixty?] and of the Commonwealth the Twenty fifth.

By the Lientenant Governor [signature]Gabriel Slaughter[/signature]

[signature]John Popst[/signature] Secretary

[pencil] [ E-C-74 #1904 2=15] [/pencil]

Logan Circuit Court - March Term 1853.

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Luey Felts &c } versus } Nathaniel Felts & Others. }

In this cause the following decree is rendered, it is ordered and decreed that the three tracts of land in the petition and answer &c described, one tract for four hundred acres one tract for two hundred acres and another tract for two hundred acres lying in Logan County and patented to Archibald Felts deceased be sold at the residence of defendant Nathaniel Felts on a credit until the first day of February 1854 the time and place being first advertised by printed advertisements at least twenty days before the time of sale and at six or more public places as near to the place of sale as practicable, that said tracts be sold separatly to the highest bidder, that the purchasers execute bond, for the purchase money to the commissioner herein appointed to make said sale for the use of such persons as the court shall hereafter decree with good and sufficient sureties, the bonds to have the force of sale bonds [inserted] also retaining a lien on the land for the payment of the purchase amounts [/inserted] William Barnett is appointed a commisioner to execute this decree, said commissioner is further directed to ascertain and report to court what rents, if any, defendant Nathaniel Felts shall be charged, for the use of the aforesaid lands which he may have occupied or cultivated since the death of the widow of Archibald Felts deceased subject to any valuable and lasting improvements made upon said land by him. He is also directed to ascertain and report to court which of the several children of Archibald Felts deceased have received a horse of the value of fifty dollars according to the provisions of his will. Said commissioner is directed to be sworn to execute the decree faithfully and the cause is continud for report and further decree. Said commis- ioner is empowered to interrogate any of the parties to this

[&?] not touching the receipt by any of them of a horse according to the provisions of said will. He is also authorised to withdraw from the papers of this Suit Such title papers as may be necessary to execute this decree.

A copy Leste Daniel Morton Clerk Logan Circuit Court by David Morton [Dle.?]

[center label] Lucy Felts &etc [or?] Decree N. W. Felts &etc [/center label]

[side note] Logan County [S????] Personally appeared before me Thomas Blakey an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said [County W Barnett?] and was duly sworn to execute the within decree to the best of his Knowledge Given under my hand this 12th day of March 1853. [signed]Thomas Blakey[/signed], [J.P.L.c.?] [/side note]

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Bowler after [words?] [Reis?]

Heirs of Sally W. [Price or Pierce?] of Indiana deceased

Thomas [Spoulders?] 6 7

Polly [Spourlders?], Jan John Daniel Bowler

George W. Price (Wesly Price, died leaving one child Sarah [W. Price?]), William A. Kellems [a?] child of Sally Kellums originally Bowler

Samuel Felts, a Brother, living, 3.

Elizabeth Felts, deceased without any heirs

Charles Felts deceased, two heires Martha and Charles Felts, 4

John K Felts, deceased, two heires Mary M. Felts, Martha [I?] [Felts?], Minors, (2)

N. [M?]. Felts, Defendant, Logan 6

James Felts, deceased, five heires, Eliza Jane Felts (New York), Charles W. Felts, Nathaniel C. Felts, Mary F. Felts, Nancy [S?]. Felts 5

Archibald Felts, X, deceased, one heir Mary Ann Felts 1

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