In the Common Pleas of Chester County,
Lindley Rossiter
vs.
Elizabeth Reese, et al.
Summons in Partition No. 6,
October Term, 1849.
CHESTER COUNTY, SS:
08.14.1849 American Republican
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to the Sheriff of Chester county
- Greeting : If Lindley Rossiter
shall make you safe of prosecuting
her complaint, then summon by
good summoners, Elizabeth Reese,
Rebecca Woodman, Keith Woodman, Mary Woodman,
William T. Woodman, Abisha T. Woodman,
Henry Woodman, Thomas Rossiter,
Abijah Rossiter, Amos Rossiter, Sarah Morris,
Jeemiah Stephens, Stephen Stephens, John Richards,
Priscilla Richards, Enoch Richards, Jr.,
Stephen Ballard and Elizabeth his wife,
James Steele and Ann his wife, Maris Taylor
and Rebecca his wife, Washington Ely and Mary Ann
his wife, Reese Cook and Elizabeth his
wife, Enoch Richards, Sr., Jacob Rodgers, Cyrus Radcliff
and Priscilla his wife, so that they
be and appear before our Judges at West Chester,
at our County Court of Common Pleas,
there to be held on the last Monday in October
next, to answer the said plaintiff of a plea wherefore,
whereas the said defendants and the said
plaintiff, together and undivided, do hold a certain
lot or piece of ground situate in the township
of Tredyffrin, adjoining lands of Joseph Davis,
Stephen Stephens, and others, containing
eleven Acres, more or less, with the appurtenances :
they, the said defendants, partition thereof
between them, to be made according to the
form of the statute in such case made and provided,
do gainsay ? and the same to be done do not
permit very unjustly and contrary to the form of
the statute aforesaid, & c., and have you then
there the names of the summoners, and this writ.
Witness the Honorable Henry Chapman,
esquire, President of our said Court at West
Chester, this thirty-firt day of July, A.D., one
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
SAMUEL B. THOMAS, Prothonotary.
July 31st, 1849. On motion of Mr. Pennypacker,
attorney for demandants, the Court diret
that the service of this writ on such of the defendants
as reside out of the County of Chester,
be made by publication in the "Pennsylvanian,"
a newspaper published in the city of Philadelphia,
and in the American Republican and Chester
County Democrat, once a week for six weeks
successively preceding the first day of next ???.
B. DARLINGTON, Sheriff.
West Chester, Aug. 14 - 6t
Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 5/29/2022.
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