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 Haste needed in settling a deed dispute; problems with a neighbor

  • » Date: 1838-02-13
  • » Subject: Haste needed in settling a deed dispute; problems with a neighbor
  • » Written By: A. C. Moore
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Davy Davis
  • » File # 879

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18 3/4

[ ] T. Gleaves
Richmond
Virginia


Write me on the reception of this. Ever yours
A. C. Moore


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Cripple Creek Wythe Cty. Va Feby 13, 1838

Dear Sir;  Mr. James Bell has become more solicitous, than when you left, concerning the land in dispute between himself and Mr. Ewing, he says, the rapid decline of Mr. Ewing’s health urges him to bring the matter to a conclusion, and as we are the parties who are to settle the matter he has requested that I shall address you upon the subject.  He has furnished me with the Deed upon which he thinks we will act without any scruples.  In order, that you may have as much light upon the subject as possible, I have coppied the most important and essential part of the Deed.  The introductory part of which I have omitted  I shall begin with the boundary – “Beginning at two locust standing on the north west bank of Cripple Creek, (beginning [    ] George Ewing connecting thence South 5 degrees [  ]


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thence south 34 Degrees East 14 poles to two small walnuts on the bank (of) the Creek, hence down the creek 34 poles to the beginning” – Too many corners for us to do both parties justice, I fear, you have the boundaries and as you were called upon by the disputants to decide the question with myself, you will form your decision; and I will agree if I can.  If not, I will keep your decision until your return.  Mr. Bell says the rapid decline of Mr. Ewing(’s) health makes him more anxious for our decision.  The old man can’t be with us much longer, I think it impossible for him to live until you return, he has become so much debilitated, that he has to be assisted in moving, he has finally given up; but with more reluctance than any man I ever Knew.

I believe I have no neighborhood news that would be interesting to you, except I have been visited by [    ]


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his manifold crimes so loudly call for, on the day before the fire, speaking of me, said that I had slandered him and said “what must a man do for revenge,” and on Monday evening coming from court; asked John Bell, three several times if I would return from Court on that evening; he answered him in the negative,  He has since been caught turning his Hogs in my corn field.  I am perfectly satisfied that he is the Villeon that has committed so many and such enormous acts of havock and destruction upon my property; and I still entertain Sanguin hopes of being able to overtake him; the community should be rid of such dangerous and unprincipled individuals, and I hope and believe that every individual in the neighborhood, will exert themselves, in prying into his conduct.  He is believed by all to be guilty; this conduct [  ]

Transcriber Notes

Algernon Cleon Moore, a lawyer & later officer in the Civil War, writes James T. Gleaves, while he is serving in the state legislature, about his need to participate in settling a land deed dispute between James Bell and an elderly Mr. Ewing, who is about to die. John Bell also mentioned a neighbor whom Moore believes has threatened him and destroyed his property by arson. Court records reveal his house had been burned several years before & his fence burned in 1838, the act referred to here, and the neighbor who was tried, but found innocent was John Earhart, Jr.

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