236   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





       Liber C D The p.lt John Haselwood maketh oath that upon the Eight &
              Twentieth day of January Last past he this Deponent did in the
              presence of John Wall & Thomas Marshall deliver unto Mary
              Granger wife of the defend.t Benjamin Granger being then at the
       (fol. 2.31)     house of John Pollard in Little Choptanck River in Dorch.r CotY
              a Writt of Execution of a Certain Decree made in this Cause
              tinder the Great Seale of this Province & Enquire of her for her
              husband but She Said She Could not tell what ome of
              him nor whither he was Gon & this Depon.t desired her wh
              See her husband to deliver the s.d Writt of Execution to him W.Ch
              Said Writt of Execution was directed to the Said defend.t and
              was for him to unto the Comp.lt the Sume of four &
              Twenty pounds Sterl & three thousand three hundred fifty five
              pounds of Tobacco Costs of Suit w.ch Said Se[veral said] Sumes
              this Depon.t then & there demanded of the S.” Mary Granger
                     She Said her husband was Gon & left her neither money
              nor Tobacco hath the S.d Depon.t or any for him paid
              the S.d Suths or Either any part of them to this
              Depon.t And this Depon.t further Saith that presently or about
              three Weeks after the pronounceing of the Said Decree the S.d
              Benj.a Granger did privately and as this Depon.t believes fraudulently
              to defeat the p.lt of the benefit of the Said Decree by Some Deed
              [or wri]teing under his hand & Seale Sell assigne & Sett over
              unto Jo[hn Pol]lard of Dorchest.r Co.ty all his the Said Benjamin
              Granger Cattle Cropp household Stuff Land & Tene
              ments w.ch the Said Benjamin Granger had in the Said County &
              the S.d John Pollard is now in possession of the S.d Granger's
              Land & Carryed away the Corn & Tobacco privately by night of
              w.ch this Complt have notice & went to the Said Pollard at Granger's
           193 house where Pollard had brought Severall persons to Carry away
        (fol. 231) the Corn and Tobacco & other things about the house & this Depon.t
              did then forewarn them from Carrying the Same away or medling
              with any thing there for that Granger being Gone his Estate was
              Lyable to Satisfie the Comp.lts debt and Costs decreed to him, But
              Pollard Said he had bought all and he would Carry it away in
              Spight of this Comp.lts teeth and forewarned this Comp.lt from the
              S.d Plantation And this Depon.t Can make it appear that the Said
              Pollard Long before he bought either Land or Goods was privy to
              a maid acquainted with the Said Decree and when he heard thereof
              he the Said Haselwood Gott a decree ag.t him well then now its my
              time to do Something or used Such like Expressions and that
              presently upon it he Sent for Granger & his wife to Lye in thereat
              his house and thereupon they made their bargain and Granger
              fearing the Decree aforesaid would Come against him did not Stay
              to acknowledge but made Phineas Blackwood a person Servant or
              Retainer to Pollard his Attorney to acknowledge the Deed and went