[Court Record Abstract]
The Estill County Court Records for September 2, 1847. The deposition of William H. Welch in a suit of law pending in Estill Circuit Court states that I delivered to the Plaintiff, Milly Hall, my grandmother $206. Jefferson Hall was defendant. Plaintiff send to my mother $20 and to my brother $1. I expect to start to the state of Missouri in a few days and shall not return.
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[cos1776 Note: relationship between Jefferson Hall and Milly Hall, if any, is unknown at this time.]
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[Court Record Transcript by Sue VonderBrink (2003) from copy of original document.]
The deposition of William Welch taken at the house of Greenup Blanton in Estill County Ky. on the 2nd day of September 1847 - to be read as evidence in favor of Milly Hall in a suit at law pending in the Estill circcuit court. Wherein said Hall is plantiff and Jefferson Hall is Defendant being sworn state -
That some time in the spring of the year 1847 - and I think about the 1st of March I delivered to the plantiff Milly Hall $206. in paper money among which money, I let her have a one hundred dollar bill on the northern Bank of Ky. The other money was smaller bill, I recollect that the hundred dollar bill was some what ______ that it has several small holes at and I do state to several persons after I heard of this circumstance and before I see the after I let Mrs. Hall have the money and that it was on the northern Bank of Ky -. Mr. Greenup Blanton has a hundred dollar bill now in his possesion which is now before me and after examing the bill from the general appearance and from the holes in it, I believe it to be the same bill I let Mrs. Hall have I do not recollect positively about the corner of the bill being torn but I recollect positively about the corner of the bill being torn but I recolleted that the bill was some what abused.
By Draft, I got the Bill I let th__ ____ have of Elijah Crutchfield who lives at the ___ at the mouth of Howard Creek he Crutchfield gave me the Bill one evening & on the next day I believed the s____ to the ___, I did not take the number of the Bill at the time I recd the ____ nor at the time of the delivery of it to the _eff - I did not examine for the number of the Bill nor do I recollect any other mark in character about the Bill than that it had small holes in it, I am no scholar - I can however tell one Bill from another - and can read print a little. I Cannot read conting - I do not know whose names were signed to the Bill as P______ Cashier or to coha____ it was made pagable, neither do I recollect the date of the Bill or the letter of the Bill - the Bill I received was not torn as I now recollect. I did not Borrow any money from the plantiff after I collected and paid over to the plaintiff the Hol. nar___ in the first part of my sepontion but the plantifft sent by me to my Mother in Clarke county a twenty Dollar Bill and a one Dollar Bill to my Brother. my uncle James Hall and wife were in the house at the time ___ ____ delivered to me the $20 and $1 Bills but they did not examine There, she had the $20 & $1 Bills wraped wh at the she handed these to me but I did not examime these at the time she handed them to me - she the plantiff cannot read or wnis, I am the gand son of the planintiff - I have been in the habit of hhandling money ____considerably -. I did not telll Mr. Blanton some time before to me on the day was the same Bill I received from Cruitchfield and said to my grandson other - I did tell him that I did not recollect the Mal the Bill was torn, I do not recollect that any p____ was present where Crutfield paid over to me the $206 - neither was any person present when I paid over to my ______ mother the $206 recieved from Crutchfield - I paid her the money at her own house but did not take a receipt from her I took in and handed over to Crutchfield his note for $200 the ____ over & above that sum was Interest, I have no collection that it had any money of my own with me when I paid over the $206 I already di have more than $10 - if that amount. It is my impr_____ I had a $5 Bill and some little silver. I appplied to the ___ to borrow one hundred Dollars from her somewhere about a month afterwards I ____ the same over to her upooin relection I think it was over a month probably two months she g____ let her have the $100 by may or loan, and I _____ a note to be _____ ___ I _____ a note to be written & are endorser to the same as my security - and where she produced as she said the $100 Bill ___ ___ ___bower paper I told her it was co. mistake and that ity was only a one Dollar Bill - this discovery was made by mme after she handed me the $20 & $1 Bills - and all these transations were before the bringing of this suit. no persons was present when I found out the mistake.
By p___ I examed the money sent to my mother & brother after it was handed me by my grandmather to my mother & Brother after it was handed me by my grandma ___ and before delivered I it to them I am positive that the amounts was a twenty dollars bill & a dollar bill. I am postive that I pair the same money over to the ___Mrs. Hall that I recd from Crutfield ___ I can not read writing or write I always pay particulars to the appearance of the bills so that I would recall it again. I recollect I examined this money some three or four times & from the general appearase of the bill this day showed me by Mr. Blanton I believe it is the same bill or as like it I let Mrs. Hall have the corner of the bill may have been torn but I can not state positive by - I expect to start to the state of Mosouri in a few days and shall not return to ___ court in Estill and for the s____ not.
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The forgoing is depositione of William Welch was this day taken subscribed and swron to by the said.
