John G. Bull,
vs.
Lewis G. Bull, et al.
In the Common Pleas of Chester county. Alias
Summons in partition.
No. 16, July Term,
1848.

05.09.1848 Village Record
Chester county, SS. THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE SHERIFF OF
CHESTER COUNTY GREETING.
IF John G. Bull make you safe of prosecuting
his complaints, then we command you as we
heretofore commanded you, that you summon,
by good summoners, Lewis G. Bull, Charles
Elliott, Harvey Shaw, and Sophia E. Shaw his
wife, Henry Dewit Pauling and Anna his wife,
Mordecai Stephens and Sarah his wife, William
Henry and Elizabeth his wife, and Emeline
Bull, so that may be and appear before our
Judges at West Chester, at our County Court of
Common Pleas, there to be held on the last Monday
of July next, to answer the said John G. Bull
of a plea wherefore. Whereas the said John
G. Bull and the said Lewis G. Bull, Charles Elliott,
Harvey Shaw and Sophia E. Shaw his
wife, Henry Dewit Pauling and Anna his wife,
Mordecai Stephens and Sarah his wife, William
Henry and Elizabeth his wife, and Emeline Bull,
together and undivided do hold a certain messuage
and tract of land, situate in the township
of Tredyffrin, in said county, bounded by lands
of Abner Cornog, Jonathan Jones, Edward Bartholomew
and others, containing 200 acres,
more or less, with the appurtenances. Also a
certain lot of chesnut timber called the Hampton
Lot, containing 15 acres, more or less, partition
whereof between them according to the laws and
customs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
be made, they the said Lewis G. Bull, Charles Elliott,
Harvey Shaw and Sophia E. Shaw his wife,
Henry Dewit Pauling and Anna his wife, Mordecai
Stephens and Sarah his wife, Wm. Henry and
Elizabeth his wife, Emeline Bull, do contradict,
and the same to be done, do not permit unjustly
and contrary to the same laws and customs, etc.
And have you then and there the names of the
summoners and this writ.
Witness the Honorable Henry Chapman, Esquire,
President of our said Court, at West
Chester, the third day of May, A.D., one thousand
eight hundred and forty eight (1848).
JAMES DAVIS, Plt'y. ?
May 4, 1848, on motion of Mr. Lewis, Attorney
for defendant, the Court direct that notice
be given to such of the parties as reside out of
the county of Chester, by publication in the
American republican and Chester County
Democrat according to law.
B. Darlington, Sheriff.
May 9 - 6t.

Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 5/28/2022.