Reuben Smith, husband of Susan Horine Smith, seeks to exercise his marital right "to an equal moiety of the personal Estate" of his father-in-law, the late Jacob Horine. He informs the court that "the property of which he is desirous of having a division made, & to have the one half thereof delivered to him, is as follows -- to wit negroes money bills notes bonds accounts bank stock and all other personal property of any and every discreption of whatever discreption it may be belonging to the estate of said Jacob Horine deceased." He therefore prays "that by an order of your Court, the said property may be equally divided & that the one equal half part thereof may be assigned to him." He notes that the other half of said property belongs to Susan's minor brother Thomas.
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Repository: Jefferson County History Center, Jefferson College, Hillsboro, Missouri
