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US Harrodsburg KY 22 APR 1829 Perryville KY 6 Black circular Harrodsburg postmark with manuscript 6 rate. Stampless FL enclosing 1829 Mercer County legal assignment of estate interest from Nimrod Greenwood to security William Claunch regarding Fauntleroy Dye estate.

Print Summary

  • Date Letter Sent: Postmarked April 22, 1829 (Legal document dated March 21, 1829)

  • Country of Origin: United States

  • Town Sent From: Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky

  • Town Sent To: Perryville, Mercer County, Kentucky

  • Distance Between Towns: Approximately 10 miles

  • Significant Philatelic Details: Circular black town postmark "HARRODSBURG / APR / 22 / K." with manuscript rate mark "6" (representing the 6-cent under-30-mile single-sheet letter rate under the U.S. Postal Act of 1825).

  • Name of Sender: Nimrod Greenwood

  • Name of Receiver: William Claunch

  • Sociological, Historical & Genealogical Notes: Legal folded letter executed in Mercer County, Kentucky. Details security indemnification, court judgments, and marital estate transfers involving the estate of Fauntleroy Dye, deceased, and his daughter Catharine Greenwood (formerly Dye).

Transcription

[Page 1 — Legal Document / Letter Content]

Whereas William Claunch has heretofore become bound as security for me in a note to F. Dye deceased on which judgment has rendered in the Mercer Circuit Court against him and myself in favor of the executors of said Dye whereby he is in danger of having to pay the same or a portion of it and has been and will at much trouble and expense in effort to extricate himself from the embarrassment in which he has involved himself on my account, and all the means of indemnity I have hitherto in his hands will not secure him from great loss, now in consideration thereof and for the purpose of securing and indemnifying him as far as in my power I as administrator of my deceased wife and also in my own personal right do hereby assign and transfer to said William Claunch all the right title interest and claim which I have or may have either at law or in equity in and to the estate of Fauntleroy Dye deceased or against his executors in whatever right or manner derived, whether as administrator of my deceased wife aforesaid, one of the heirs of said Dye, or in any other way. Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of March 1829.

Nimrod Greenwood (Seal)

for himself and as administrator of his wife Catharine Greenwood (formerly Dye) deceased.

Attest: T. Haskin

[Page 2 — Outer Address Panel & Postal Markings]

HARRODSBURG K. APR 22

6

William Claunch or

Nimrod Greenwood

Perryville

Mercer County, Kentucky

[Docketed on side]: Claunch vs Dye's Executor / Assignment from Greenwood to Claunch

Social, Historical & Genealogical Significance

  • Genealogical Connections:

    • The Dye and Greenwood Families: Involves Nimrod Greenwood and his late wife Catharine Greenwood (née Dye), daughter of Fauntleroy Dye (a prominent pioneer and landowner of Mercer County, Kentucky).

    • William Claunch: A local Mercer County resident acting as financial surety/security for Nimrod Greenwood.

  • Legal & Economic History: Illustrates early 19th-century legal mechanisms in Kentucky Circuit Courts governing surety liability, debt collection, and the transfer of inherited spousal property rights under common law coverture and estate administration rules.

  • Philatelic & Postal Details: Sent locally within Mercer County from the county seat of Harrodsburg to Perryville on April 22, 1829. Features a clear circular black town postmark and a manuscript "6" rate mark, reflecting the standard 6-cent rate for single-sheet letters traveling under 30 miles under the United States Postal Act of March 3, 1825.