Moses Skaggs

• General Notes
  • From Green county Court House: File #387l
    
    I, J.H. Caulfield, printer and publisher, of the Kentucky Register, a
    public authorized newspaper, published in Elizabethtown, Ky., do
    certify, that the annexed order of publication in chancery, wherein
    Jeremiah Lewis and Aaron Lewis are complainants against the heirs of
    Moses Skeggs, deceased---defendants has been published in said paper
    for
    two calendar months, by succesive weekly insertions, commenting on the
    2nd day of April last and ending on the 2nd day of June l836. Given
    under my hand the 2nd day of June l836.
    
    Signed J.H. Caulfield
    Proprietor, Printer, & Publisher of "Ky. Register"
    2 l/2 squares---Printer fee $5.00
    Copy of Newspaper article as follows:
    
    Advertisements---Green Circuit Court, Feb. term l836, Jeremiah Lewis and
    Aaron Lewis complainants against the heirs of Moses Skaggs, dec'd defts
    --In chancery.
    
    This day came the complainants and filed their bill, and it appearing tothe
    satisfaction of the court, that the defendants James Meredith, JohnMeredith,
    Daniel Meredith, Matthew Meredith, Wm. Meredith, Susanna Quary, and Wm.
    Quary her husband, Thomas York and wife, Laban Ellis and wife, Rebecca
    Skaggs, Susanna Criswell, Edw. Whit, Adam Harman, Henry Harman, Mathias
    Harman, Robert Beavers & wife, Moses Beavers and wife, Thomas Christian &
    wife, Josiah Whit and wife, Archibald Maloney and wife, John Mitchell &wife,
    Joseph Howell & wife, Parthena Hankins, Lucy Hankins, Lydia Hankins,Joseph
    Hankins, and Moses Hankins are not inhabitants of this commonwealth, and
    they not having answered the complainants bill agreeably to law and therules
    of this court, it is ordered that unless the aforesaid non-resident doanswer the
    same on or before the first day of the next term of this court, the samewill be
    taken as confessed against them. A copy test. John Barret, Clk.
    
    April,----: The desposition of William Ratliff taken at the home ofWilliam
    Skaggs, on Aleck Fork of Pitman's Creek pursuant to notice on the 27th of
    April, l836, to be read as evidence on the trial of a suit in chancery now
    pending in the Green Circuit court, in which Aaron and Jeremiah Lewis
    was complainants and William Calvin, Charles Blevins and others are
    defendants. The deponent being of lawful age and first duly sworndeposition
    and saith:
    
    I was acquainted with Moses Skaggs of Green County Kentucky. He had
    four sisters to wit: Susanah who married one Richard Whit, Betsy or
    Elizabeth, who md. John Hankins. Lydia who married Mathias Harman and
    Nancy who md. William Meridy. I was acquainted with all of them in
    the state of Virginia and quite intimate with them.
    
    Question of complainants: Has (or have) Moses Skaggs or not one
    brother by the name of John Skaggs.
    Answer: Yes he had.
    
    Question by same: Were or were not the sisters above named the only
    sisters, which Moses Skaggs had?
    Answer: Yes, they were all that I know of.
    
    Question of same: State if you can when Moses Skaggs died and where
    he lived at the time of his death.
    Answer: I can not say certainly when he died, but think it has been
    about forty years. He died at his house in Green County.
    
    Question by same: Did or did not Moses Skaggs leave at his death any
    children?
    Answer: He never had any children that I knew of. He had none I know
    when he died.
    
    Question by same: Did or did not Richard Whit, and wife, Matthias
    Harman & wife and John Hankins and wife live---in the state---of
    Virginia.
    Answer: They did.
    
    Question by defendants: Are you acquainted with the children of John
    Hankins, Hezekiah Whit and Mathias Harman.
    Answer: None but the children of Hankins and one of Whit.
    
    Question by same: State how long it has been since you was acquainted
    with the above.
    Answer: Yes, I was.
    
    Question by same: Was you acquainted with the brothers of Moses
    Skaggs,
    if so name them.
    Answer: I was acquainted with Henry, James, Charles, John, Richard, &
    Jacob these were all the brothers of said Moses Skaggs.
    
    Question by same: Did you know them in Kentucky and did they not all
    raise large families.
    Answer: Yes, I believe they did.
    
    Question by same: Was you acquainted with the children of the above
    named persons.
    Answer: I was acquainted with some of them. Rachel Blevins, Archibald
    Skaggs, Thomas Skaggs & Moses Skaggs, these are Charles Skaggs
    children.
    
    Question by same: Was you acquainted with Henry Skaggs; children, &
    how many of them.
    Answer: I was acquainted with Lucy Stacy, Mary Combs & James Skaggs &
    Silvey Roark.
    
    Question by same: Was you acquainted with the children of James
    Skaggs?
    Answer: I was acquainted with William Skaggs & Rachel Etherton,
    children of James Skaggs.
    
    Question by same: Was you acquainted with Richard Skaggs; children.
    Answer: I knew Henry Skaggs.
    
    Question: Did all the children of the above named persons live in the
    state of Kentucky and the county of Green.
    Answer: Believe they did.
    
    Question by complainants: Were you or not acquainted with the
    children of Jacob skaggs.
    Answer: He had one son by the name of William Skaggs who is now
    living in Green County, and further this deponent sayd not.
    
    His
    William X Ratliff
    mark
    
    Also the deposition of Francis Samples taken at the same time and
    place for the same purpose. The despondent being of lawful age and first
    duly sworn says:
    
    Questions by complaints: Were you or not acquainted with Moses Skaggs
    who died in Green County about forty years since.
    Answer: I was.
    
    Question by same: How many sisters had he and whom did they marry?
    Answer: He had four sisters only to wit: Susanah married a Richd Whit,
    Lydia, married Matthias Harman, Elizabeth married John Hankins and
    Nancy who married William Meridy.
    
    Question by same: Did they or not live in the State of Virginia when
    you knew them.
    Answer: I think it was.
    
    Question by same: Have or not Moses Skaggs ever have any children.
    Answer: No, he never had any that I ever knew and I was intimately
    acquainted with him.
    
    Question: Was or not the wife of sd. Moses Skaggs named Elizabeth,
    and did she or not survive him.
    Answer: Yes, that was her name and she did survive him many years.
    She has been dead not a long while.
    
    Question by same: Have or not you and Jacob Skaggs brother of Moses
    lawfully married---.
    Answer: We were and lived together many years as man & wife.
    
    Question by same: How many children had you and what are their names?
    Answer: We had but one, and he is named William and is now living in
    this county.
    
    Question by defendants: Do you consider yourself the widow of Jacob
    Skaggs deceased.
    Answer: I do.
    
    Question by same: Do or do you not consider yourself interested in
    the estate of Moses Skaggs dec'd.
    answer: I do not know that I do.
    
    Question by same: Do you or do you not consider yourself interested
    in sd. estate for your son, William.
    Answer: I do not, and further this deponent sayeth not.
    
    Her
    Frances X Samples
    mark Parents: James Skaggs and Rachel.