Chancery Document

Date: 9 Apr 1846 [unknown]
Location: Freehold, New Jersey, United States
Surnames/tags: Hankinson Perrine

“Between Zebulon Baird and Caroline E, his wife, late Caroline E. Perrine, complainants,

AND

John I. Perrine, and Phebe, his wife, Wm. Hankinson, and Mary his wife, late Mary Perrine, Joseph Hoff and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Hankinson, Stephen Perrine and Hezekiah Mount and Hannah, his wife, late Hannah Perrine, and others, defendants.

Order for Publication.

IT appearing to this Court that the complainants have filed their bill in the above cause against the above named defendants and others for the sale of a certain devised Farm and tract of land in the said Bill mentioned to satisfy and pay the Legacy of the complainants made chargeable therein with other legacies, and that process of subpoena to appear and answer, directed to the defendants, hath been regularly issued, returnable on the twenty fourth day of March eighteen hundred and forty six but that the defendants William Hankinson and Mary, his wife, late Mary Perrine, Joseph Hoff and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Hankinson, Stephen Perrine and Hezekiah Mount and Hannah his wife, late Hannah Perrine, could not be found in this State to be served therewith, and that they have not nor hath either of them caused his, her or their appearance to be entered as in case such process had been duly served, and it being made to appear by affidavit to the satisfaction of the Chancellor, that the said William Hankinson and Mary his wife, late mary Perrine, Hezekiah Mount, and Hannah his wife, late Hannah Perrine, Stephen Perrine, Joseph Hoff and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Hankinson, reside out of the State of New Jersey, to wit: the said Wm. Hankinson and Mary his wife, and Hezekiah Mount, and Hannah his wife, reside in the interior of the State of New York, and the said Stephen Perrine resides in Brooklyn in the state of anew York, and the said Joseph Hoff and Elizabeth, his wife, reside in the State of Michigan.

It is thereupon on this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six, on motion of Daniel B. Ryall, Solicitor of complainants, by this order directed by the Chancellor, that the said absent defendants, William Hankinson, and Mary his wife, Hezekiah Mount and Hannah his wife, Stephen Perrine and Joseph Hoff and Elizabeth his wife, do appear, plead, answer or demur, to the complainant’s Bill, on or before the third Tuesday of June next, or that in default thereof such decree be made against them as the Chancellor shall think equitable and just. And it is further ordered, that this order shall, within twenty days hereafter, be served personally in the said absent defendants above named, by a delivery of a copy thereof to said several defendants, respectively, or be published within the said twenty days in “The Monmouth Democrat and Farmers and Workingman’s Advocate,” a newspaper printed at Freehold in this State, and continued therein for six weeks successively, at least once in each week.

O. S. Halsted, C.

A true copy

SAMUEL R. GUMMERE Clerk

April 9, 1846” “Monmouth Democrat” (Freehold, New Jersey) 9 Apr 1846 Page 1