@clark_vs_prudden_collection:collection {title: "Clark vs. Prudden Land Partition Case Collection", creator: [@enock_clark, @sarah_clark, @samuel_prudden], institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1779, language: "en", subjects: ["Land partition","Legal documents","Real property","Land boundaries","Milford (Conn.)","New Haven County (Conn.)"], description: "Collection of legal documents related to the land partition case between Enock Clark and Samuel Prudden in Milford, Connecticut, 1779. Includes detailed land descriptions and court proceedings.", place: [@milford_conn, @new_haven_county_conn, @fair_milford_conn]}

@enock_clark:person {full_name: "Enock Clark"}

@sarah_clark:person {full_name: "Sarah Clark"}

@samuel_prudden:person {full_name: "Samuel Prudden"}

@connecticut_state_library:organization {full_name: "Connecticut State Library"}

@milford_conn:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states, description: "Town in New Haven County, Connecticut"}

@new_haven_county_conn:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states, description: "County in southwestern Connecticut"}

@fair_milford_conn:place {subdivision_of: @milford_conn, description: "Area within the town of Milford"}

@new_haven_county_court:organization {type: "court", location: @new_haven_county_conn, description: "New Haven County Superior Court"}

@partition_case:event {type: "land partition lawsuit", parties: [@enock_clark, @sarah_clark, @samuel_prudden], location: @new_haven_county_court, date: @date_1779_03_24, description: "Suit by Enock and Sarah Clark against Samuel Prudden for partition of land in Milford, Connecticut"}

@enock_clark -> plaintiff in -> @partition_case

@sarah_clark -> plaintiff in -> @partition_case

@samuel_prudden -> defendant in -> @partition_case

@new_haven_county_court -> held -> @partition_case {when: @date_1779_03_24}

@partition_land_image_002:document {type: "image", format: "jpg", ocr_text: "Highway and Southwesterly on Land of Hannah Platt & Rachel Bidden, one other Piece at the Point so called, containing Seven Acres and is Bounded north on Highway, east on the Creek, south on the Platts & Redding's Land and west on the Land of Joseph, Jonathan & Enock Bidden; one other Piece Laying at a Place Called the North End of the Four Mile Meadow and is Bounded north and west on Highway, south part on Highway and part on Land of Hannah Platt and east on Land of Lew 'Benj' Fenn, Containing Five Acres and one Quarter of an Acre; one other Piece Laying at a Place Called the Indian's Me Meadow near the Great Bridge; being Salt Meadow, containing one and an half Acres and is Bounded south in Highway, east on meadow of Joseph, Jonathan and Enock Bidden; north on Nat Daniel Buckingham's Meadow west on Jacob Bryant his meadow, one other Piece Laying at a Place Called Root Hill, containing Eleven Acres and 29 Rods and is Bounded west on Highway, north on Jacob Brittle's Land, east on Land of Joseph, Jonathan & Enock Bidden, south on Land of Lew John Smith and the 1st & 2d W. Lots together the above. Described Several Pieces of Land all Laying within the Township of Fair Milford, in such Manner & Proportion, as that it belongs to the P. Plainlips in Right of the P. Sarah, to have appurteled and Set out to them to be by them held in Severally the one Moity or Half of the whole of the above described Pieces of Land and Meadows & to the Deft it belongs to have the Remainder, the other moiety or half of the above Land. Yet such Partition to be had and made"}

@partition_land_image_003:document {type: "image", format: "jpg", ocr_text: "the Def. hath hitherto denied and still doth deny to be held and made to the Off. Damage £50. o-o Lawfull money & therefore the Off. bring this Suit & Demand Partition of all the above Lapsed Pieces of Land & Appurtenances in manner and proportion as it above Set Forth according to the Form and Effect of P. Statute together with Said Damage & Cost, hence Fail not & Duel return? Made Dated at Derby March the 28. A.D. 1779\n\nMilford March 24. 1779 — James Beard Just of Peace\nThen I served the within writ by reading the same in the hearing of the within named Def. Thos Michael Peck\nfor Constable of Milford\nNew Haven County Court Novr 2. Friday 1779\nand now the Def. Pleads & says that the Proprietors and others in Manner & Proportion as the Off. in their Declaration have alleged & hereby puts themselves on the Country\nand the Off. likewise\nA true Copy of the Writ and pleas onfiled\nExam'd By John Whiting Clerk\n\nAt a County Court hold at New Haven in the County of New Haven on the second Tuesday of Novr. A.D. 1779.\nEnock Clark and Sarah Clark his wife, both of Milford in the County of New Haven, & Enoch suing in Right of Sarah &c.\nSamuel Prudden of said Milford Def.\nIn a plea bro't. on the Statutes, entitled an Act for the partition of Lands &c. demanding partition of several pieces of Land, lying in said Milford, bounded and described in the Will, in such manner and proportion as therein demanded, together with £50. o.o Lawfull money Damages, as by Will, on sale."}

@clark_vs_prudden_collection -> includes -> @partition_land_image_002

@clark_vs_prudden_collection -> includes -> @partition_land_image_003

@nhsc_baai_cases_papers:concept {description: "Database subset of New Haven County Superior Court files focusing on Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}

@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject-index field for New Haven County Superior Court files – Black, African American, and Indigenous (BAAI) cases and papers – subject terms"}

@nhsc_baai_cases_papers -> has subject field -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject