Knox v. Pickering
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
' In this action, which was a writ of right, the demandants, counting on the seisin of their ancestor the late Gen. Knox, asserted their title to a parcel of flats in Bangor, lying in front of the settler’s lot No. 10, originally granted to the heirs of James Dunning. The demandants adduced in evidence the Resolves of Feb. 17th and 23d 1798, the purport of which is stated by the Chief Justice in the opinion of the court.
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' In this action, which was a writ of right, the demandants, counting on the seisin of their ancestor the late Gen. Knox, asserted their title to a parcel of flats in Bangor, lying in front of the settler’s lot No. 10, originally granted to the heirs of James Dunning. The demandants adduced in evidence the Resolves of Feb. 17th and 23d 1798, the purport of which is stated by the Chief Justice in the opinion of the court. They also read a deed from Thomas Davis, agent for the Commonwealth, to Gen. Knox, dated July 20, 1799, made pursuant to those Resolves; conveying to him certain townships of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered' in Cumberland, at the adjournment of May term, in August following, by
Mellen C. J.
The Resolve of February 17, 1798, was passed •on tire petition of Henry Knox, late father of the demandants, and largely interested in the Waldo claim at the time. The Resolve of February 23d of the same year relates to the same subject, and makes further arrangements for the completion of the objects contemplated in the former one.- From both of them, viewed in connexion, the following facts appear, viz : — That in the year 1692 a large tract of land was granted to…
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