Frederick County, Maryland - Equity Court Records Equity BGF-3 1-29 - SLAVES, LUCKETT, REMSBURG, McGILL, RHODERICK, RHANAHAN - Oct 1858 Negroes, AIREY, RUTH and FANNY vs Sebastian RAMSBURG & Others - to Establish their Freedom and/or Prevention of their Sale William LUCKETT, dec'd (Will written 1 Oct 1817) - Samuel LUCKETT & w/ Rebecca - Nelson LUCKETT - Lloyd LUCKETT & w/ Henrietta S. - Clarissa Harlon LUCKETT (101 acres beginning at tract "John and Sarah") - Serena LUCKETT (161 acres beginning at tract "John and Sarah") ==== Serena LUCKETT d/ Apr 1858 (Will written 4 Mar 1856) nephew/ Mount Joy B. LUCKETT ($200) niece/ Lucinda LUCKETT - Montgomery County niece/ Mary Brengle LUCKETT - Montgomery County niece/ Caroline LUCKETT (died before Serena) niece/ Ann Elizabeth LUCKETT (now insane & in Maryland Hospital in Baltimore) (guardian was Joseph W. L. CARTY) SLAVES - negro DAVID/DAVY (reserved money for his support) - RUTH (then 18) and her 'increase' to be freed upon decedent's death. - FANNY (then 21) and her 'increase' to be freed upon decedent's death. - AIREY and her 'increase' to be freed upon decedent's death. - servant CHARLES (then age 15) to be free at age 21; - and GEORGE (then age 7) to remain with his mother until he is 16, then hired out until age 21, then to be freed. Balance of estate, except the servents, to be divided equally among the four nieces. Exec/ Mount Joy B. LUCKETT (he died before taking duties in 1857-1858); whereby Sebastian REMSBURG was made administrator. Witnesses: Sebastian REMSBURG, Jacob GROVE, W. H. GROVE Letters of Administration issued 14 July 1857 to Sebastian REMSBURG with sureties George GROSS and George W. CRUM. Land - "Second Resurvey on Lucketts Merry Midnight", (a portion) 320 acres; from Samuel LUCKETT, Nelson LUCKETT and Lloyd LUCKETT to Clarissa Harlon LUCKETT and Serena LUCKETT in 1821. (Witnessed by William R. KING and P. McGILL Jr. - JS-14, 110) Land is located in Jefferson District, three miles south of Jefferson, near the 29th Lock on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It lies on the public road from the Catoctin Switch on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road. Portions were sold to Henry GROSS and William LAKIN, leaving about 180 acres, Serena's portion is undivided. Improvements consist of a comfortable dwelling house, dairy, granaries, negro quarters and other out buildings, 1/3 in timber. It lies about a mile North of the Catoctin Depot on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road, adjoining lands of Charles GROSS, Dr. G. W. CRUM, George P. RAMSBURG and is accessible to churches, schools, mills and markets. (Act of 1831, Ch 281 - Conditions for Freedom of Slaves in a Will; one provision is that the decedent's estate must cover debts.) Testimony was heard from Sebastian REMSBURG who also was appointed trustee with sureties as George W. CRUm and Jacob REMSBURG. Sale was held on 2 May 1861; Clarissa LUCKETT appointed George W. CRUM as her agent and agreed her undivided portion should be sold at the same time, total was 171 acres. High bidder was: - Thomas J. McGILL at $6,788.27, subject to grains growing and due to Lewis RHODERICK and William RHANAHAN. Distribution of $3,394.13; court costs $217.43 - multiple creditors, $2,497.46 - A. P. KESSLER, Register of Wills, tax, $16.98 - Eleanor H. LUCKETT, executrix and devisee of M. B. LUCKETT, dec'd, his legacy with interest, $230.10 - Lucinda LUCKETT, 1/3, $144.05 - Mary B. LUCKETT, 1/3, $144.05 - Ann E. LUCKETT, 1/3, $144.05 Closed 14 Aug 1861. ================== www.MidMdRoots.com ==================