| Show TilE LUCK OF REV COOVERT Who Thinks He Has a Valid Claim On a 800000000 Estate Gen Grant Tomb May JSe in litigation PmsBURG August 11Rev II W Coovert of this city pastor of the Church of God will leave for New York on Thursday for the purpose of commencing proceedings looking to the recovery of Harlem commons in that city He says he has discovered facts which show that the Coovert family are the rightful heirs and he is satisfied their claims will be established The property is valued at 60000000 which if the claim is established will be divided among about one hundred members of the family The estate embraces the j resting place of General Grant but this i would not under any circumstances be disturbed i dis-turbed Ihe Harlem Commons syndicate lately formed are the heirs of the original j patentees who preceded the late Coovert I General Fremont is its president It is claimed that documents exist in Albany to prove that a patent was made to five Hollanders Hol-landers of 10000 acres in Harlem in May 1666 by Governor Nicholls and reaffirmed twenty years later by Governor Donegan I The title passed to Luke Coovert and never went out of the Coovert family and never was transferred or annulled I A Newcastle Penn special says About I forty alleged heirs assembled in this city recently re-cently to consider the advisability of pushing push-ing their claims to the property The meeting meet-ing was presided over by John N Emery who is a grandson of Luke Coovert Emery stated that in his opinion the site of General Grants tomb does not belong to the heirs Thev cannot establish any claim to it as the soot is he thinks on one of the highlands while the property claimed by the syndicate was all under water before being filled in In order to test the ownership the pr p erty claimed o suit will be brought by the syndicate against the elevated railroad which has one or more stations built on the ground in question The heirs to the estate run into the thousands and Emery has letters let-ters of inquiry in his possession from persons per-sons as far west as Washington Territory south as far as Florida and east as far as j Maine If the syndicate gains its suits t thousands of suitswill follow |
