Churchill v. Grundy

Samuel Churchill — claiming to be the owner of three thousand acres of land on the Ohio river, in Union County, opposite Shawneetown, under a conveyance, in 1827, by six of the Trustees of the Jefferson Seminary, who claimed the land under a patent issued, in 1799, to six of their predecessors, as Trustees of the said Seminary—made an application to the County Court of Union, for the grant of ferry privileges, across the river, from a point embraced in his deed, to the opposite shore; but William Grundy—who seems to be the alienee of a ferry, within less than a mile of the site of that asked…