SC1896_FF1_150

[pg. 40]
The chancery suit, brought by Campbell & wife & other
Heirs of Caroline against myself & daughter (Louisiana)
for the Nashville Lot, was prepared for trial
as soon as by the Chansery practice it could be
(I will here state what was omitted at the
proper place that after the titles to the Lot, was
vested in Thos. Taul, jointly with his wife, he made
a will, dividing it, in the event of his wife's dying
without issue, to her brother, & sister, both of the
whole & of the half blood. After receiving
the mortal wound, from the hand of one of
the Duncans, he revoked that will, & made
another, dividing it to my daughter & my self
Mrs. Campbell had a copy of the will in her
possession, at the time he was killed - and I have
no doubt, Anderson saw it, or knew its content)
There were not many depositions taken in
the cause; those that were, were for the purpose
mainly of attacking the Registration
of the deed, by proving that the examination
of Caroline Taul by Judge Williams, was made
in Court, but at her chamber, some distance
from the Court house, which admitted
by the answers. The deed from Thos. T. & wife
to Benja. Deckerd in trust &c. had been used
at Nashville on the trial of Judge Williams
& had been mislaid, so that it, could not be
& was not found for some months - During
this time the took the deposition of Mrs. Anderson
Wife of Cols. A. & mother of a portion of the
Complainants, and by her attempted to prove that
the signature of Caroline P. Taul, to the deed
[? ?], for part of the same Lot, & made on
the same day of the other deed, was not her
hand writing, from which they intended, to
infer that the other deed was a forgery.