Wilson's heirs v. Bodley

THE heirs of James Wilson, exhibited their bill against Thomas Bodley and James Hughes, shewing that a tract of land of 800 acres was patented to John Harvie in 1791, who conveyed it, in that year, to Colonel William M’Kee, who conveyed 200 acres thereof to their ancestor James Wilson, who settled on the land in the year i792, and resided there till his death, and that his widow and family continued to occupy the land ever since; that Bodley and Hughes commenced their suit in chancery in the general court of this state, relying on an adverse entry and junior grant, against colonel M’Kee, for…