Coleman v Mattox, 1824

 

Lexington Weekly Press, 31 Jan 1825.

The notice above was published in the Lexington (Kentucky) Weekly Press between 6 December 1824 and 31 January 1825, as part of a chancery case filed in Harrison County Court on 15 January 1824. The case named Priscilla Guthrie, widow of Jesse Guthrie, and his children Polly (Guthrie) Martin, Priscilla Guthrie, Reuben Guthrie, Rebecca Guthrie, Maryann Guthrie and Suckeyann (Susan Ann) Guthrie. The original action from Harrison County is available online via FamilySearch Labs' Full Text Search.

Jesse Guthrie has been appearing for a while in Ancestry's ThruLines for my Dad's results as a possible 4th-great-grandfather, which would place him as a 5th-great-grandfather to me. There's a quite bit more to sort through. I'm starting with the Coleman v Mattox case and looking at land deeds involving Jesse and Priscilla in Kentucky. Some of the land in the case had been conveyed previously by Jesse and Priscilla to Thomas Morrow on 10 November 1822 (see below):

FamilySearch. Harrison County, KY. 1822.

James Coleman brought his action against Edmond Mattox and the Guthrie survivors as Jesse had at one time held a bond for a conveyance for 130 acres in Harrison County. Jesse, Priscilla and their family moved to Indiana in late 1822 or early 1823, where Jesse died in September 1823. There was a survey error in the acreage of the plot, and Coleman claims the amount of the extra land conveyed to Mattox, Thomas Morrow and others is owed to him.

Coleman v Mattox complaint. 1824.

It looks like a representative of the Guthries answered that they have no further property in Kentucky, and were non-residents of the state. They said if Mattox owed a debt to Guthrie for the extra land the debt should be paid over to Coleman. Priscilla and the heirs of Jesse were dismissed from the case (see the order from the Harrison County Court here on FamilySearch.

In June 1825, the court dismissed an action brought by Priscilla Guthrie against Edmond Mattox.

One more note - there's quite a lot online from other researchers of Jesse and Priscilla Guthrie. More to follow on this interesting branch.