Well, the following legal ad is more fun than a barrel of monkeys --- genealogy wise! I couldn’t resist transcribing it just because it was so juicy with information. I’m a McClure descendant, which is what I was researching when I found this. But there are so many names, places, relationships, and who has died by 1837 and who hasn’t, that I feel it is a little gold mine of information for many.
Virginia Sanders-Mylius
gmylius@charter.netwww.OurSouthernCousins.com June 16, 1837, Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser: JOHN HANNA, JAMES MOORES and others, vs. JAMES GLASGOW and others, heirs of WILLIAM HANNA} In Chancery, 5th June 1837: The object of the Bill filed in this cause is to obtain a decree for the sale of part of Lot No. 83 fronting forty feet on the east side of North Gay Street in the city of Baltimore, and extending of that breadth west, half the distances between Gay and Frederick Street; the Bill states that Daniel Moores (sic) being seized in fee simple of the lot which extended the whole distance between Gay and Frederick Streets, died so seized in the year 1797, intestate and without issue; that his title and estate in the said Lot at his death vested in his two brothers, John and James, his sister Deliverance, who had intermarried with William Hanna, his sister Sarah who had intermarried with Robert Bryarley (sic) and in the children of his sister Apphia(sic) then deceased who had in her life time intermarried with Robert Glasgow, to wit: one daughter named Elizabeth, intermarried with John Clendenine (sic), and James Glasgow.
That the said John Moores, James Moores, and Robert Bryarley and Sarah his wife, in the year 1803, conveyed unto the said William Hanna, and the said James Glasgow as tenants in common, all their interest in the whole of the said lot of ground. That the said John Clendenin and Elizabeth Clendenin his wife in the year 1803, also conveyed to the said William Hanna and James Glasgow, tenants in common of the whole of the said lot No. 83, in the year 1823, agreed to divide the said lot of ground. That the said William Hanna and James Glasgow, tenants in common of the whole of the said lot No. 83, in the year 1823, agreed to divide the said lot and that in pursuance of such agreement a deed of conveyance was executed by the said James Glasgow to the said William Hanna, of one-half part of that part of said lot which fronts on Gay Street, and a deed of conveyance was also executed by the said William Hanna, to the said James Glasgow, of one-half part of that part of the said lot which fronts on Gay Street, the said William Hanna having the northern part of said front on Gay Street, and the said James Glasgow the southern part of said front; the said William Hanna reserving to himself and wife in his deed of conveyance a life estate in the land thereby conveyed, and that the name of the said DELIVERANCE HANNA, the wife of the said WILLIAM HANNA, was by mistake omitted in the said Deed of Conveyance from the said William Hanna to the said James Glasgow. That the said WILLIAM HANNA died seized in fee simple of four-fifths parts of that part of said lot conveyed to him by the said James Glasgow, intestate and without issue; that on the death of the said William Hanna his title and estate in the said part of the said property vested in his sister JANE, who had intermarried with JAMES JORDAN in the children of his brother THOMAS HANNA, then deceased, to wit: JOSEPH HANNA, SAMULE HANNA, SARAH, who had married SAMUEL MILLER, now deceased; MARY, who had married JOSEPH JOHNSON, now deceased; and ELIZABETH who had married WILLIAM CROOK of Beaver Co, Pennsylvania, and which Elizabeth is now deceased, having left one or more children, whose age, sex, and residence are unknown to the Complainants, in the children of ELIZABETH, the sister of said William Hanna, who intermarried with JOHN McCLURE, which Elizabeth and John McClure are since dead, to wit: JAMES McCLURE, ROBERT McCLURE, WILLIAM McCLURE, ESTHER, who married -----SAMPLE (supposed to be dead), ELIZABETH McCLURE and MARGARET who intermarried with JONATHAN BEATTY; in REBECCA HANNA who had intermarried with JAMES HANNA, a brother of the said William Hanna, which James Hanna removed to Brown County in the State of Ohio, and there died, but whether he left issue or not cannot be ascertained, but it is believed that the said REBECCA HANNA was duly appointed his administratrix; in the children of JOHN HANNA, a brother of the intestate William Hanna, who had been twice married and who died in the life time of the said William Hanna, leaving issue by his first wife a daughter named MARY, who intermarried with JOHN McKENNEY, which John and Mary McKenney are both dead , leaving issue two children, to wit: JOHN McKENNEY and DELIA GORDON, who resides out of the State of Maryland; and by his second wife give children, to wit: ELIZABETH who intermarried with JOHN GRAFTON; HESTER, who intermarried with JOSEPH HARKINS and JANE who intermarried with JOHN HARKINS, which John and Jane are since dead, leaving issue WILLIAM HARKINS and HANNA, who intermarried with JOHN WARD; in the children of his son ALEXANDER HANNA who died in the life time of his father the said John, but whose names, age, sex and residence are unknown to the Complainants; in the children of the said John Hanna’s daughter HANNAH, who intermarried with JOHN SWAN, and who died in the life time of the said William Hanna, leaving issue three children, whose ages, sex, and residence are also unknown; in the children and grandchildren of ALEXANDER HANNA, a brother of the said William Hanna, who is now dead, to wit: JOHN HANNA, WILLIAN HANNA, ROBERT HANNA, STEPHEN BALCH HANNA, ELIZABETH who intermarried with SAMUEL McGAW, MARY who intermarried with WILLIAM ROGERS, residing in the State of Indiana, SARAH who intermarried with PHILIP FULTON, residing in the State of Ohio, and ALEXANDER HANNA residing in the State of Pennsylvania; also in JANE wife of WILLIAM WALTERS, which said Jane is the daughter of MARGERY daughter of Alexander Hanna, by her first husband THOMAS ROGERS, also MARY JANE ROGERS a minor, the only child of ROWLAND ROGERS, deceased, son of the said Margery by her said husband Thomas Rogers, the said Margery after the death of the said Thomas Rogers having again married and is now dead without further issue; in the children of DAVID HANNA, brother of the said William Hanna, whose ages, sex, and residence are unknown further, than that they are supposed to reside in the State of Kentucky; in the children of MARY, sister of the said William Hanna, who intermarried with WILLIAM BLAIR, and who are both deceased, whose ages, sex, and residence are unknown, further than that they are supposed to reside in the State of Kentucky.
The Bill further states, that the said DELIVERANCE HANNA, formerly Deliverance MOORES, who intermarried with the said WILLIAM HANNA, survived her said husband and died intestate and without issue, seized in fee simple as one of the heirs of the said DANIEL MOORES of one-fifth part of that part of the said lot of ground conveyed to the said William Hanna by James Glasgow, by the Conveyance of August 13, 1823m and that her interest therein descended to and vested in the children of her two brothers and two sisters, to wit: the children of her brother JAMES MOORES, who died in the State of Ohio, leaving issue JAMES MOORES, DELIVERANCE with intermarried with ----HALL, ELIZABETH who intermarried with ----BALL, SARAH who intermarried with THOMAS TURNER, and APPHIA who intermarried with ---FOARD, all of whom reside out of the State of Maryland; in the children of her brother JOHN MOORES who died in Harford County, in this State, leaving issue: JAMES MOORES, AQUILLA PACA MOORES, SAMUEL L. MOORES, ELIZABETH MOORES, MARY who intermarried with JAMES BRYARLEY and died, leaving issue only MARY ELIZABETH BRYARLEY an infant, and PARKER MOORES who has since died intestate and without issue; in the children of her sister SARAH who intermarried with ROBERT BRYARLEY, and who are both dead, leaving issue DANIEL BRYARLEY, ELIZABETH who is married to JAMES GOVER (sic), HANNA who is married to RICHARD D. LEE, APPHIA who is married to AQUILLA PACA MOORES; in the children of WAKEMAN BRYARLEY, son of the said Sarah Bryarley, to wit: ELIZABETH D. BRYARLEY and WAKEMAN BRYARLEY, and also THOMAS BRYARLEY, JAMES BRYARLEY, MARY ANN BRYARLEY and DELIVERANCE ANN who is intermarried to EDWARD WIATT, all of whom reside out of this State in the State of Virginia; in the children of her sister APPHIA, who intermarried with ROBERT GLASGOW, and who together with her husband are now dead, leaving issue the before named ELIZABETH, wife of JOHN CLENDENIN – and the aforesaid JAMES GLASGOW as her only heirs, the said James Glasgow having since died, leaving issue SUSANNA PARNELL GLASGOW, of full age, and JAMES GLASGOW, DELIVERANCE HANNA GLASGOW, and GEORGE ROBERT GLASGOW, minors.
The bill further states that the said lot of ground, is not susceptible of beneficial division among the numerous heirs aforesaid, and that it would be for the interest, benefit and advantage of all the parties therein interested, that the same should be sold and the proceeds apportioned among them according to their legal and equitable rights and claims, and prays a decree for the sale of the same and an apportionment of the proceeds thereof among those entitled to the same, according to their respective interests in the same.
It is therefore ordered that the complainants by a causing a copy of this order to be published once a week for four successive weeks in some daily newspaper in the City of Baltimore, before the tenth day of July next, give notice to the said absent defendants of the substance and object of the Bill, that they may be warned to appear in this Court, in person or by solicitor, on or before the tenth day of November next, to show cause, if any they have, why a decree should not pass as prayed.
True Copy - Test, RAMSAY WATERS, Reg. Cur. Can. - June 7th, 1837.