Jackson ex dem. Bogert v. King
New York Supreme Court
Ejectment for land in Halfmoon, in the county of Saratoga, tried at the circuit in that county, June 9th, 1824, , ° ' T ™ T , hefore Nelson, G. Judge.
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Ejectment for land in Halfmoon, in the county of Saratoga, tried at the circuit in that county, June 9th, 1824, , ° ' T ™ T , hefore Nelson, G. Judge. On the trial, it appeared that the defendant, and those under whom he claimed, had possessed the land for 30 or 40 years, but no adverse possession was made out; and the main question was, whether certain testimony, which will be found stated at large in the opinion of the court, was admissible to establish the pedigree of the lessors of the plaintiff. Certain parts of the evidence were objected to as inadmissible, by the defendant’s counsel.…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia, per Woodworth, J.
On the 10th day of September, 1708, a patent was granted to William Appel including the premises in question. The lessors of the plaintiff claim to be his heirs at law.
At the trial, a sworn copy of certain entries of baptisms and marriages, in the records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New-York, was given in evi deuce, to prove the pedigree of the lessors of the plaintiff; by Avhich it appeared, that on the 26th of May, 1695, one William Appel and his wife had a son baptized by the name of Simon; that in 1719, Magdalena, and on the 24th of…
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