JOHN DOGGETT
| John Doggett b: d: 1831 m: Nancy Massey Children:
John Doggett owned property that was originally part of William Massey's survey 1909 in the eastern part of St. Ferdinand Parish/Township on the Missouri River near Island #103/Green Island. For map showing Massey's tract click here.
This was a suit in chancery instituted by the appellants who are
the widow and heirs of John Doggett, deceased.........DOGGETT et al.
v. LANE et al; Supreme Court of Missouri; 12 Mo. 215; October, 1848,
Decided..............This was a suit in chancery instituted by the
appellants who are the widow and heirs of John Doggett,
deceased...........a tract of land in St. Louis county, containing
672 arpents..........One hundred acres of the tract was conveyed by
Wm. Massie, who claimed under Samuel and Amos Duncan, the
confirmees to David Barton, and by the latter to said Doggett; the
said Wm. Massie having died, Chas. S. Hempstead, administrator of
Christian Wilt obtained a judgment against the administrators of
said Massie, upon which an execution issued in 1824, which was
levied upon 249 arpents, part of the said tract of 672 arpents, and
at a sale of the same by the sheriff under said execution, the said
Doggett became the purchaser of the said 249 arpents, which was
accordingly conveyed to him by the sheriff. In this way Doggett
acquired title to the 100 acres purchased of Barton and the 248
arpents purchased at sheriff's sale.................The deed bears date 1st day of June,
1829.............the bill alleges that at the date of this deed John
Doggett, the grantor, was greatly reduced by disease, insomuch that
his mind was greatly impaired, if not entirely gone; that he had
been for some time before that date suffering from protracted
sickness, which continued gradually to grow worse until he finally
died of it in 1831............See the testimony of James Bissell,
St. Cyr, Brazeau, Chick, Gardner, Ranney, Graham, Quick, &
Mrs. Jackson. [need to get
copy of testimony of Mrs. Jackson as she is my 4th gr. grandmother &
sister to John Doggett.] |
