Dear board,
This Virginia chancery case will be of interest to you...I must warn you however that it is severely damaged.
ACCOMACK CO 1803-025
Plaintiff(s) ELIZABETH EWELL INFANT ETC Defendant(s) ABSALOM RUE
Also please note that the summons and order appear to be dated 8/8/1786... 1/8/1787
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CF... search for the name Rue in Accomack Co. Va.
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my abstract as follows;
Elizabeth Ewell oratrix by her next friend Richard Grinalds
legitimate dau. of Solomon Ewell & Elizabeth his wife. both the late deceased of the county afsd
Elizabeth was the daughter of Richard Grinal( d), Senior deceased of the county afsd
that Richard Grina(ld) Senr., the grandfather of your oratrix..did on 1/1/1772 make his last will..
bequethed....Mary the grandmother of your oratrix ...died shortly thereafter
Elizabeth married Solomon Ewell after the death of Richard Senr,
Elizabeth the mother of ..oratrix died in the lifetime of sd Mary the grandmother of said oratrix
the father of your oratrix...intermarried with a certain ____ Rue, the daughter of Absalom Rue....
had one child ______
the father of your oratrix received by his said second wife no portion..and had little personal estate of his own, except what he had received... and to the use of your oratrix..
..after death of father of oratrix...
Absolom Rue (granted) adm. for Solomon Ewell
Summons for Absalom Rew, adm. .. of Solomon Ewell dated 8/8/1786...to answer Elizabeth Ewell, infant
Order to sheriff dated 1/8/1787
Sincerely,
Vic Piper