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1 In the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Equity. Tilghman et al. vs. Frelinghuysen, Administratrix of Yard 1842

handle is hein.trials/acmr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: In the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. IN EQUITY. TILGHMAN ET AL. FRELINGHUYSEN, Administratrix of YARD. TO THE HONOURABLE THE SUPREME COURT, Respectfully complaining, show unto your Honours, Benjamin Tilghman and George Einlen, Trustees of Elizabeth Hester Kuhn, wife of Charles Kuhn: That by certain articles of marriage settlement, made between the said Charles Kuhn and Elizabeth Hester Kuhn, and others, bearing date the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ten; and reciting certain previous articles of marriage settle- ment, made on the intermarriage of Charles Kuhn and Elizabeth Hester Yard, all the estate of the said Elizabeth Hester, real and personal, was vested in Edward Tilghman and Caspar Wistar, in trust, for the sole and separate use of the said Elizabeth; and upon the decease of the said Edward and Caspar, the said trust was vested in your orators, by a certain act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. And your orators further show, that the said Elizabeth Hester was the daughter of Benjamin and Eliza Yard, residents of the island of St. Croix, a Danish dominion; and that the said Benjamin and Eliza, on the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, made a joint will and testament, according to the provi- sions of the laws of the kingdom of Denmark; whereby it was provided, that, upon the death of either of them, one-half of the property of both should vest in their children, and the other half of the property of both of them, should be enjoyed by the survivor for life, with remainder to their said children; and made the survivor testamentary guardian of their children, as, by the said testament, will more fully and at large appear; a true copy of which is hereto annexed, (marked A.) which your orators pray may be taken as part of this bill of complaint.-That the said Benjamin Yard departed this life on the twenty-first day of August, Anno Domini, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, leaving the said Eliza him surviving, and two children, by their marriage, to wit, Elizabeth Hester, who in- termarried, as aforesaid, with Charles Kuhn, and is, with her said husband, now living, and Cornelius, who departed this life on the eighteenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hun- dred and three, unmarried and without issue.-That said Eliza Yard,

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