Burdett v. Clay

On the 20th day of August, 1840, William Myers executed a mortgage, which was recorded on the day of its date, .upon 500 acres of land, to Nelson Burdett, Wm. Hoskins, John Rout and Abram Smith, to secure the payment of several bills of exchange to the amount of $12,000, payable in New Orleans, which they had endorsed and which he proposed to negotiate at any or several of the Banks of Kentucky. On the 10th day of *288October, he executed a second mortgage, recorded on the 13th, on the same land and several slaves, to Isaac M. Myers, Wm. Hoskins, R. P. Letcher and J. H. Letcher, to secure a debt…