M'Cracken's Heirs v. Beall

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion.

To obtain from the appellees a surrender of their legal title, derived under a patent which issued to Jacob Myers the 2d Dec. 1785, the appellants exhibited their bill in the circuit court, claiming the superior equity, under the following certificate and entry, in the name of Isaac M’Crack-cn, their ancestor:

January llh, 1780. Isaac M’Cracken this day claimed a preemption of 1,000 acres of land, at the state price, in the district of Kentucky, lying on Cartright’s creek, a branch of Salt river, running down the said creek for quantity, to include his cabin,…