Armitage v. Wickliffe

In May, 1821, John T. Mason executed a deed of mortgage to Thomas E. Boswell, conveying to him a tract of land in the county of Bath, lying on Beaver creek, containing one thousand acres, on which a furnace had been erected, being a tract of land patented in the name of the heirs of Thomas Swearingen, dec’d., to secure the payment to the mortgagee, of a debt of upwards of ten thousand dollars due to him, by the mortgagor and James, aud Richard M. Johnson.

On the 5th of June 1823, Mason executed another mortgage to the President, Directors, and Company of of the Bank of Kentucky, on the same…