Crocket v. Lee

delivered thé opinion of the Court.

These causes relate to the samé title, and depend on the same question. It is the validity of a certificate for a settlement right granted to Angus Cameron, and of the entry thereof in the surveyor’s office.

The certificate is in these words :

“ Angus Cameron this day claimed a settlement and pre-emption in the District of Kentucky, on account of residing in the country twelve months before the year 1778, lying dt the head right hand fork of Welles’ branch, extending south east to the head of a small run that empties into the north fork of Licking, including…