Amanuensis Monday~Bill for the Partition of Estate Lands.

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is a Bill for the Partition of Estate Lands.¹

James L. Brock, the husband of Elizabeth Purvis, passed away sometime before 17 June 1871. He was alive and well when the 1870 Census for Pike County, Mississippi was enumerated on 6 August 1870.

In a previous post related to the heirs of James Brock, we saw by means of a land deed that James Brock was deceased. 

https://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2019/11/amanuensis-mondayheirs-of-james-brock.html

Today’s post is a Citation Notice related to the partitions of James Brock lands after his demise.

Transcription:


Citation Notice
Chancery Court, 20th Chancery District.
State of Mississippi}
Pike County}   No. 2220.
Valentine Brock}
vs.                }
Eli Brock, et als.} Bill for partition of lands.
In vacation, before the Clerk at Rules,
May 19th A. D. 1873
UPON reading the affidavit of complaint, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk that Eli Brock, Nancy Miller and T. G. Miller, her husband, Angeline Miller and R. L. Miller, her husband, Isham Hinson and Thomas Hinson, defendants in the above entitled cause, are non-resident of the State of Mississippi, and reside beyond the limits thereof, respectively as follows: said Eli Brock, Nancy Miller, T. G. Miller, Angeline Miller  and R. L. Miller, in Washington parish, State of Louisiana, and whom post office is at Palestine, in said parish and State; and said Isham Hinson in the parish of Livingston, in the State of Louisiana, and whom post office is at Amite City, in the parish of Tangipahoa, in the said State of Louisiana; and said Thomas Hinson in the county of Lafayette, in the State of Arkansas and who post office is at Bright Star, in the county of Hopkins, in the State of Texas; it is therefore ordered that said defendants enter their appearance herein on or before
The Third Monday, in July A. D. 1873.
at a term of said Chancery Court of Pike county, State of Mississippi, to be held at the Court House of said county of Pike, to answer, plead or demur to the complainant's bill, or the several allegations thereof will be taken for confessed as to them. 
It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published in the Magnolia Gazette a weekly newspaper published in said county of Pike, once a week for one month, and that said Clerk mail a copy of said order to each of the within named parties, at their respective post offices.
     A true copy from the minutes of the court.
     Attest:                                            W. M. CONNERLY, Clerk.
     S. E. Packwood, Solicitor for Compl't.
     May 23, 1873.--5w

James Brock is a 1st Cousin 5 times removed; Valentine and Moses are 2nd Cousins 4 times removed.



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[1] "Bill for partition of lands.," Legal Notice, The Magnolia Gazette (Magnolia, Pike, Mississippi), 20 June 1873, Page 3; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : viewed & transcribed 26 April 2020); https://www.newspapers.com/.