The following notice appeared in Switzerland County, Indiana newspapers in 1831.

Weekly Messenger – 11 Oct 1831 – Page 3, Column 2; 18 Oct 1831 – Page 3, Column 2

MARGARET M’BETH,
Daughter of the late JAMES McBETH, deceased, late of Cotton township, Switzerland county, Indiana,

TAKE NOTICE,
THAT I shall take the depositions of your brother Francis McBeth, and of your sisters Jane Brierton and Ann Harrison, at the office of Thomas Cole, a justice of the peace, residing in said Cotton township, on Saturday, the 19th of November, 1831, at noon, relative to your age, at this time; when and where you may attend if you think proper. The object of those depositions is to show that you was of full age when you executed a certain bond to Seth Sprague, in Boone county, Kentucky, for a small piece of land, laying and being in the township, county and state aforesaid—being the same piece of land, left to you by your father in his will.

WILLIAM DICKINSON
Cotton township, October 9.