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The LOVICKS were of the nobility, LORD EDWARD LOVICK owned e large Estate in the Borrough of Southwark, England9 and he also owned a large interest in the London Bridge & after his death the bridge interest was sold & the money it brought ^as deposited in the Crown?s Banko Uj Grand= k 120ther8 ELIZABETH LOVICH BRIGHT,, received the rents & interest from the Banls until her death8 just after our Civil War started & the Northern
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people started the Blockade TEh.ich stopped the payments,, After our War was over- a year or so laters my Father took the Deed9s that AUN? EMMA BRIGHT sent ?iim of the Estate & deposits of the Bridge to Lawyers in Ne^ Orleansg & they sent copies of them i?Q the- Queers attorney in Eng** whom ??as JTJDAH Fc B35TJAMXM2 the Secretary with JEFFERSON DAYISs & made Mb escape when -JEFFo DAVIS ?;as arrested & sent to Engo & the queen Victoria employed for her attorneyP BENJAMIK ^rote back that our title was ^perfectly gocd% but the "deposit was so rav.eh the Queen wouldn?t let it go out of the Kingdoms It had increased to over an 11 million of dollarso "But if tha heirs would go there to liT?0 they could drew on it ?very year until it was paid outnc So my Father said he wouldn?t live in "any D??? country but his own"0 I remember my Mother & Brother Lue arguing over it & trying to induce him to taka us all & go to Eng0 "but to no avail",,
EMMA MITCHELL COLMAHT Shortly after that I read in the paper that "Queen Victoria had .passed a law that "No money & Estate could be recovered by anyone, living in any country apart from England"? Eo M3 C?
So none of the family has aver tried to get the Estata or funds in the Bank of Englands sinoe0
I forgot to state that Great Grandfather C0Lo GEORGE MITCHELL was murdered in ambush by a neighbor farmer0 After the V?ar closed Grandfather return^ ed to his plantation in Onslow County8 No Carolina?, & hi a eldest son CAPTo GEORGE MITCHELL w&s a candidate for the House of "Burges? or "Senate as it?s called now" 0 And a farmer by the name of SAMUEL SNEED- was also a candidate