MANUSCRIPT ANSWER OF DANIEL SULLIVAN [JR.] TO A BILL IN CHANCERY AGAINST HIM AND THOMAS BULLITT BY CHARLES LYNCH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

[Knox County, KY: 1807]. Folio broadsheet, 8" x 13". Completely in neat ink manuscript. Answer prepared on recto with signature of Daniel Sullivan. From "Indiana Territory Knox County," it is certified and signed on the verso on June 25, 1807, by E[liju] Stout as Justice of the Peace, and by R[obert] Buntin as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Knox County. The Certification includes the unusual paper seal, affixed with wax, of the "Court of Common-Pleas of Knox". Scattered spotting, old folds, four short paper tape repairs along center fold on recto [a few words are obscured]. A few short closed tears at fold edges, closed tear to top corner.
[with] Small broadside, 6.75" x 8.25". Certification of James Johnson attesting that Robert Buntin was a clerk of the County Court at the time he signed the first document. Signed and dated June 26, 1807. Light spotting. Both documents Good+.

A dispute over the ownership of land, the parties victims of the perennial land conflicts and clouded titles of early Kentucky. Charles Lynch, grantee of lands owned previously by Colonel John Campbell, sued three other claimants to the lands. Defendant Daniel Sullivan [Jr.] submits this answer, asserting that on August 23, 1803, he executed a bond relinquishing all claims to the property. The bond carries severe penalties should he reactivate his claims, it assures that he will not do so, and thus he "prays hence to be dismissed with his costs."
Daniel Sullivan, Sr., [1745-1790], Thomas Bullitt, Sr., [1734-1778], and Col. John Campbell [1735-1799], were all involved in the earliest surveys and settlement of Louisville, which was first laid out by Bullitt in 1773, and resurveyed by William Peyton, assisted by Daniel Sullivan, Sr. John Campbell had acquired a military tract within the survey in 1774 and with Joseph Simon proceeded at that time with plans to found a city. [Collins: HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, 1877, p.360; Kleber: THE KENTUCKY ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1992, pp, 139, 154.]
Daniel Sullivan Jr. was the son of Daniel Sullivan, Sr. Our Thomas Bullitt may have been similarly related to Thomas Bullitt, Sr. The heirs probably had claims at one time to lands acquired by their respective fathers. Here Sullivan, Jr. abandons any such claims. Item #32409

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