Clark: Clarksville and Old Red River County, Texas (pc

B. C. Fowler, Clk, M.C.C.
The United States of America.
Territory of Arkansas, County of Miller, Township of Royston.	John Stiles and David Myers, two Justices assigned to keep the peace within and for the
said County of Miller to the Sheriff of said county, Greetings: Summons John Morton of your county to appear before us at the dwelling house of James Smith in the said county on the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day then and there to answer to Benjamin R. Milam and defend against the complaint of the said Benjamin R. Milam as to us exhibited wherein he complains of the said John Morton, defendant of a plea of forcible entry and detainure for that the said Benjamin R. Milam heretofore to wit in the fall of the year A. D., 1830, to wit in the County of Miller and Territory of Arkansas aforesaid purchased of the Shawnee Indians all of their improvements, tenements and farms situated on the public unsurveyed lands of the United States at and near the Spanish Bluffs in the County of Miller aforesaid and afterwards to wit on the first day of December, A. D. 1830, aforesaid to wit in the County of Miller aforesaid and possessed himself of the said improvements, tenements and farms and then and there became an actual settler on the public unsurveyed lands of the United States and continued in the actual peaceable and undisturbed possession of the said improvements, tenements and farms by himself, his tenants and agents until the said John Morton afterwards, to wit on or before the first day of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and thirty-four, unlawfully with force and strong hand entered into and upon one of the said improvements, tenements and farms of him, the said Benjamin R. Milam, situated and being in the County of


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The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County Pat B. Clark 1937