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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: [KYBARREN] BELL'S TAVERN - PART 2 & a note
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:12:01 -0500


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Now here's the next segment of Bell's Tavern:

A brief history of the property title and ensuing operators of the brick
tavern as found of record in the Barren County Court Clerks office: This
covers title changes of the brick tavern since the hewed log house
adjoining the brick tavern remained partially in the Clements family until
1832 when Robert S. Bell bought the last share out. In 1839 Robert Bell
acquired title to the entire Tavern and Inn.

1 May 1805 John Monroe/David Walker filed their Newton Curd 400 acre
survey located at, and "includes the three forks." Surveyor Daniel Curd
began it at a squatters corner which was not of record anywhere and had no
legal basis.

5 Oct 1807 Curd located 1660 acres for the New Athens Seminary north of
Morris' Hickory Ridge and westward, overlapping the Joseph Hill squatter
tract (not of record.) Hill the squatter was now sandwiched in between this
tract and David Walker/John Monroe. He shifted somewhat westward as later
records show.

19 Aug 1809 Curd finally surveyed and filed the Joseph Hill 400 acre
tract that he used in 1805 as reference and anchor for the David
Walker/John Monroe survey. IT WAS NOT OF RECORD IN 1805.

10 Aug 1812 Ephraim Puckett filed the William Watson 400 acre survey "at
the forks." These 2 surveys were found later to overlap or clash.

24 Jun 1813 A suit of ejectment from the Three Forks land was instituted
by David Walker/John Monroe Vs John Doe/Ephraim Puckett and James Clements.

20 Jul 1813 During the Court ordered resurvey, the James Clements BRICK
tavern with HEWED log house attached was shown to be on the property being
contested in Court. Again the resurvey at direction of David Walker
violated all principles of land boundary surveying methods. NO PREVIOUS
MARKS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND DURING THIS RESURVEY.

31 Mar 1814 The Circuit Court jury agreed with the Puckett resurvey which
did not remove the tavern from him. This did not set well with Monroe and
Walker, and Judge Tompkins.

25 Jun 1815 Judge Tompkins quashed the jury verdict and ordered a new
trial.

PLEASE NOTICE THE UNUSUALLY LONG LAPSE OF TIME.

21 Mar 1816 The Barren Circuit Court by way of a second jury more to the
liking of Walker and Tompkins removed title of the brick tavern and the
overlapped land from Ephraim Puckett and gave it to the Monroe/Walker team.
Verbal title had not been consummated and recorded between Puckett and
Clements.

April Term 1816Widow Patsy Clements reported husband James Clements had
died. She was named administratrix.

7 May 1816Dr. John Monroe sold his tavern share to David Walker. The
Clements tavern is now known as "Walkers Stand."

19 Sep 1817 Ephraim Puckett deeded the remainder of his Watson survey to
the heirs of James Clements. It included the hewed log Inn. Ephraim
Puckett, an honorable, wealthy man was living in Mississippi when he died.

16 Jan 1819 Patsy Gilbert Clements Anderson, the remarried widow, sold
her assumed dower in the land and hewed log inn to David Walker. This was
in direct conflict to precedents established by the Barren and Warren
County Circuit Courts when a widow had remarried.

25 Nov 1825 David Walker Jr. sold his tavern and property to the Bank of
Kentucky. It included the ??widows dower?? in the hewed log Inn. The
Mooreheads took title from the Bank.

1826 William Bell first taxed in Barren county.

1827 Robert Slaughter Bell first taxed in Barren county. The father-son
team operated the tavern as lessors.

27 May 1828 George C. Clements sold his half share of land and Inn (not
tavern) to Joseph Browning. Browning immediately resold to Willis Clements.
Willis resold the share to the Bank of Kentucky. During all this time, the
Kentucky Bank and Mooreheads were occupying and possessing the Clements
farm in its entirety. With only a half share owned by them. They, just as
David Walker before them, used all, and never paid any rent or taxes on
that half which they did not own.

On 17 Mar 1832 John G. Clements, realizing this lack of rent, filed suit
in the Barren Circuit to that effect. He stated the fact of trespassers
occupying his half of the farm without any payment to him. When the Court
ordered sheriff Bart Graves to determine if Clements owned any land, he
stated he could find no land in Barren owned by

Clements. John G. Clements realized justice was not to be had in Barren
County. He wrote his attorney, Christopher Tompkins, to dismiss the case.
Evidently laws concerning conflicts of interest were not in effect back then.

to be continued - Sandi


Colonel Sandi Gorin
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