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Williamson County, Tennessee: the decree of January 1834 in William Nash et al. Exparte, confirming the commissioners' report on the division of the estate of Dempsey Nash.
Image · dated January 1834 · source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
William Nash & al. Exparte. Decree. Be it remembered that this cause came on to be finally heard before the Worshipful Nicholas Perkins, John Hughes and Albert Marshall Esqrs on the [7th?] day of January 1834 upon the former order made in this cause, and the report of the commissioners which is in the words and figures following [here inserted]; which report being read & fully understood by the court and not being excepted to, it is therefore ordered and decreed that said report be in all things confirmed; it is also ordered and decreed that all the right, title and interest of the said William Nash and Charles W. Crouch and Lucretia his wife to the said slaves Jim, Abram, Ede & Solomon be divested and the same be vested in said John Nash, his executors, administrators and assigns forever
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Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. The day of the decree reads [7th?] January 1834. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).