ckground STEED vs NOBLE Deposition of Jonathan Lazear (Number 1 of 2) ‘Transcription Date: 24 September 2010 Transcriber: Document Name: Deposition Date: Number of Pages: Patrick Lyons STEED vs NOBLE, Deposition of Jonathan Lazear (Number 1 of 2) 29 January 1844 Three Deposition Location: Elizabeth, Wood, Virginia (now West Virginia) Citation: ‘Surnames: Comments: Note 1: Note 2: Steed vs Noble, Hopkins County, Kentucky, Circuit Court Docket No. 4983 (1844-1853). Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, 300 Cofilee Tree Road, P.O. Box 537, Frankfort, KY 40602, 190 pages. Deposition of Jonathan Lazear dated 29 January 1844, pages 145-147. Steed, Noble, Lazear, Lockhart, Coe, Stubblefield, Long, Corbett and Dixon. What follows is a transeription of a three page deposition written in cursive. The line format is similar to that used in the original for ease in comparison. Where words are unintelligible, [2] is used. Minor spelling ‘errors were corrected, but for the most part this represents a transliteration. Pages of the lawsuit are not numbered therefore I assigned pages numbers in the order as received by the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. Judgment was made in favor of the plaintiffs, heirs of Captain John Steed, by the Hopkins County Circuit Court, Kentucky, in 1853. Subject lands were then sold by Steed heirs in 1853 (2,000 acres to Richard Dunville) and 1856 (2,730 actes to Thomas 8. Page). Those records are currently kept at the following location: Hopkins County Clerk, 24 Union Street, Room 2, Madisonville, KY 42431John Doe in the demise of Henry Steed and others Pts} Depositions taken before the against } undersigned William E Lock John S. Noble and others Defts} hart ~a justice of the peace acting and duly commissioned as such on and for the County of Wood in the State of Virginia at the house of T.J. Coe in Elizabeth town in the County and State aforesaid on the 29" day of January 1844 to be read in evidence behalf of the Plaintiffs in the above suit now pending in the Circuit Court of Hopkins County in the State of Kentucky, agreeable to notice given and hereunto annexed. Jonathan Lazear of lawful age and having been duly sworn deposeth and sayeth as follows — Question. By Plantiff were you acquainted with the late Capt. John Steed formerly of Hampshire County Virginia, Answer, I was. Q. by same — Do you know whether he was reputed to have obtained Military lands for services as a Captain in the Revolutionary war. Ans. I have often heard it said by him and others. Q. by same — Please state if you know or as near as you recollect how long since he died. ‘Ans. I think he died in 1798 or 1799 or about that time. Q. by the same. Please state also if you know of your own knowledge or be general reputation in the neighborhood whether he left and lawful issue living at the time of his death. ‘Ans. always understood by him and his neighbors that he never had any children by his wife, Q. by same. Were you acquainted with his brothers and sisters and if so please state their names. Ans. I was well acquainted with James, William whole Brothers and Aaron a half Brother, Sarah a whole sister and Susannah a half sister who I have always understood by him and others were his only brothers and sisters. Q. by same. How long since you knew Sarah and Susannah and how long since you have heard of them, ‘Ans. I saw them frequently a short time before John Steed’s death, not long after they moved west and I have not heard of them for near forty years. Q. by same. Have you lived in the neighborhood of their Brothers or either of them and had such intercourse with them as to render it probable that you would have heard of the said Susannah and Sarah in case they had been living or heard of by their said Brothers for the last Thirty years. ‘Ans. I have live near to and been on terms of intimacy with William and Aaron Steed and their families for the last Thirty or Forty years and during that time have heard nothing of them. Further this deponent sayeth not Swom and subscribed before me the said 29" day of} Jonathan Lazear January 1844 } WE Lockhart =} P. } The foregoing deposition will be sealed by me with my signature written atop the seal WE, Lockhart JPSamuel Corbett John 8. Noble Robert A Stubblefield and William A Long ‘Take note that on the 29" day of January 1844 between the hours of Sun Rise and Sun Set at the house of T.J. Coe in Elizabeth Town Wood County before said. I shall proceed to take the deposition of Jonathan Lazear & others and continue from day to day until the same and completed to be read in Evidence in a certain Suit now depending in the Hopkins Circuit Court in the County of Hopkins State of Kentucky in which I am plaintiffs and you are defendants when & where you can attend. Henry Steed Aaron Steed William Steed James Steed by A Dixon Attorney