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Edward Worthington legal case, 27 June 1801

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11. the dispute between said Worthington and Daniel Callaghan, said Callaghan alleged he thought it was rather more than said Edward Worthington ought to have for his services as agent for said Daniel Callaghan and Brother Patrick Callaghan in obtaining two settlements and preemptions. It was the opinion of this deponent and George Johnston that he was entitled to receive two hundred acres of said Settlement or the value of the same, and at the same time said Daniel Callaghan made mention that he had partly sold the ballance of his land and that he could not finish his bargain without selling that two hundred acres also, he agreed to pay the said Edward Worthington the full value of the two hundred acres in money, and this deponent further conceived the said two hundred acres of land to be worth three pounds per acre, and this deponent further saith not. signed John Martin Sworn to before, as at James Logan in Lincoln county the 20th day of June 1729. James Logan Joel Atkinson George Johnston of full age and first duly sworn deponent and saith, that some time in the summer of the year 1797 in the Town of Cynthiana he the deponent was called on by Daniel Callaghan and Edward Worthington to settle a dispute between them wherein said Worthington claimed of said Callaghan four hundred acres of land on the South fork of Licking in the county of Harrison, being the said Callaghans settlement right, alleging that

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