Frederick Co, Md Equity Court Abstracts - JS-7 57-74 - RIDGE, HOOVER, SHRIVER, HAMMERSLY, STOVER, HOLTZMAN, SLAVE - Jan 1825 Cornelius RIDGE Estate Benjamin RIDGE, dec'd, left children, son/Cornelius RIDGE d/ 1823 intestate, no wife/children son/ Ephraim RIDGE d/ bef Sep 1825 intestate .....w/ Catharine ........Greenberry RIDGE ........Cornelius RIDGE ........Elizabeth HOOVER ........Rebecca w/o Jacob SHRIVER ........Christena RIDGE ........Susanna RIDGE ........Ally w/o Matthias HAMMERSLY dau/ Rebecca RIDGE d/ will 27 Sep 1825; 5 Nov 1825 * son/ William RIDGE, dec'd - Out of State - leaving children, ........Charles RIDGE ........Benjamin RIDGE ........Cornelius RIDGE ........Levy RIDGE ........Ephraim RIDGE Jr ........Catharine RIDGE ........Elizabeth RIDGE ........Susan RIDGE Administrators of Cornelius were Ephraim RIDGE (now deceased) and Greenberry RIDGE. Land - Lots #1 and 2 in Creagers Town w/ improvements to Cornelius from Christian KUHN in 1817; also Lot #90 in Creagers Town to Cornelius as agreed between John CREAGER, gentleman, from Christopher STOVER and his wife, Sara, of Pickaway Co, Ohio, she a legal heir of Henry HOLTZMAN. * Rebecca's will listed Ephraim's family and named her father; left all undivided 1/4 part of land where her father lived to Ephraim's sons, Greenberry and Cornelius; left her sister-in -law, Catharine - SLAVE - Mulatto girl ELLIOSINE, until she is 23, then to be freed. Elizabeth HOOVER held an 1823 note from Cornelius. William ROSS was trustee; on 24 Mar 1827, sale of Lots 1 & 2 w/ 2-story brick house sold to Cornelius RIDGE for $523; Lot 90 w/ no improvements sold to John R. CURTIS for $12.50; insufficient, paid $.44 on the dollar; finalized on 13 Sep 1827. ============== - Dorinda Shepley - Dorinda@MidMdRoots.com www.MidMdRoots.com