David Downard
Alexandria Court Order Book 1, page 55, 11 October 1807
The Sheriff returned the summons
that issued against Sarah Smith Administratrix of James Smith, deceased and
David Downard her husband as executed, and the said
Sarah and David appeared
in Court and the said Sarah voluntarily offered as Security William Downard
and the said David Downard whom the Court adjudged sufficient, whereupon the
said William and David entered into and acknowledged their bond in the penalty
of $1000. conditioned as the law directs and thereupon the Security in
the former bond are discharged from further Securityship.
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Alexandria Court Order Book 1, page 70, 20
June 1808
On the application of Joseph Tod, a bond from James Smith deceased to the said Tod is ordered to be recorded the execution of the said bond being proved by the oaths of Jacob Fowler & William Reddick, which said bond is in the words and figures as following to wit.
Be it remembered that for
and in consideration of the sum of $35 to me, James Smith of the Town of
Newport in hand paid before the sealing and delivery hereof by Joseph Todd the
receipt whereof is herby confessed I the said James Smith, oblige myself, my
heirs and assigns to make a Deed of warrantee to the said Joseph Todd for a
lott in the Town of Newport aforesaid number in the plan of said Town No. 161
one hundred and Sixty-one. In witness whereunto I set my hand and seal
this 5th day of March 1807. Jas. Smith
Signed, sealed and Delivered in the presence of: Jacob Fowler, Stephen Lyon,
John Hughes, William Reddick, J Bartle
And on the application of
the said Tod to appoint Commissioners under an act entitled an act to reduce
into one the several acts of the conveyance & division of land passed in the
year 1797 to Convey a lot in the Town of Newport agreeable to said bond.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the said James Smith died
intestate and that all his heirs are under lawful age and it further appears
to the satisfaction of the Court that the purchase money of the said Lot has
been paid, by the acknowledgement of the administratrix in the presence of her
husband David Downard in open Court. Ordered that Richard Southgate,
Daniel Mayo and Jacob Barrickman be appointed commissioners for the purpose of
conveying.
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Alexandria Court Order Book 2, Page
93, 24 November 1818
On the motion of Ebenezer Smith, it
is ordered that Abraham Brumer, David Downard,
Joseph Stilwell and Samuel Thompson or any three of them being first sworn do
view and
mark out a road to leave Licking road near James Taylor's farm called Mill
Farm, thence
to the said Smith's Horse Mill, thence from said Horse Mill to intersect the
road between
the Farms of Thomas Lindsey, deceased, and William Caldwell from the mouth of
Bank
Lick to the County road which is intended as a pass way to Said Smith's horse
Mill and
that they report to Court the Conveniences and inconveniences of said road.
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Alexandria Deed Book I-J, page 31, recorded 31 July 1831
Deed made 23 July 1831 between
David Downard and Sarah his wife, late widow of James Smith, deceased, of the
County of Campbell and the State of Kentucky of the one part and Rees Graddis
Junior of the same County of the other part. David and Sarah for and in
consideration of $1 sell all the dower right of the said Sarah, as the widow
of the said James, in lots Nos. 43, 91, 99 and 100.
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Court Order Book (not numbered)
Page 170 23 March 1857 at Alexandria
Satisfactory proof was this day
produced to Court that David Downard to whom Land
Warrant No. 9889 for 160 acres of land was issued on the 17th day of November
died on the 10th day of
January 1856 and that James Downard, Mary Air, Missouri Buist, Malinda Hooper,
Louisiana Marot and William H Sullivan, are the only children and heirs at law
of said David Downard and that said heirs are of age.
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