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Kentucky [Jct.?]
Pleas before the Honorable [?] Judges of the
District Court of Paris at the courthouse in Paris in
the county of Bourbon at the June Term in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
one, and of the commonwealth the tenth.

Whereas heretofore that is to say, at a
Court held for the District aforesaid in October one
thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, Edward Worthing
-ton exhibitted his bill of complaint in this Honorable
court against Daniel Callaghan, John Tittle, Hugh
Miller Jr. and Benjamin Harrison defendants, which
said bill follows in these words to wit, "To the [Honorable?]
the Judges of the District Court at Paris in Chancery
sitting, Humbly complaining showeth unto your Honors
your Orator Edward Worthington. That sometime in the
year 1779 a certain Daniel Callahan whom your Orator
prays may be made a Defendant to this his Bill of Complaint
made a contract with your Orator by which your Orator
agreed to locate certain lands lying now in the County
of Harrison and State of Kentucky; and he the said defen
dant thereby also agreed to give your Orator such a part
of said lands as would sufficiently compensate your Orator
for his trouble and also for any expence your Orator might
be at in clearing out said land, your Orator expressly
states that he did locate said Lands and was at some
considerable expence in clearing out the same. Your Orator
further