Fauntleroy's Heirs v. Dunn

Petition for Re-heaking,

By Mr. Bradley.

Between 1780 and 1790, the giand-molher of the lessors of the plaintiffs intermarried with a man by the name of McDonald, by whom she had one son, whose name was James; that a short time after the birth of James, his father departed this life, after having surveyed and patented several thousand acres of valuable land in the now State of Kentucky, (a part of which is that now in contest;) a short time after the death of old Mr. McDonald, his widow was married to James Harrod, one of the first pioneers of Kentucky, and by whom she had one child, who was…