Hollingsworth v. Barbour

This wás a bill, .filed on the equity-side of the court, by the appellants, setting forth,, that on the. 21st'of February 1784, a certain John Abel Hamlin entered, With the proper surveyor for the. district of Kentucky,.forty-five thousand acres of land, lying in the county of Washington; by'virtue of sundry treasury warrants', issued by the state of Virginia. That a survey was made tnereon, on the 13th of April 1786 ; and a patent isSiied the 8th of June 1798, to the said John Abel Hamlin. That previous to the date of such entry, the complainant had purchased from' the said Hamlin the…