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Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675. 451
Price being in his Life time Seazed in ffee of Severall Lands and Liber P C
Tenements in the Said County and of a considerable Personall
Estate about ffourteene Years Since dyed Leaving the Complt Ann
about Two Years old having ffirst made his last will & Testam.t in
Writing & thereby amongst other things did will & Devise unto his
Sonn in Law Joseph Bullet from out of his Stocke & goods att the
herring Creeke Eight Cowes & a bull Six breeding Sowes Two p. 67
ifeather bedds One pot one Ketle & all that tract of Land belonging
to him att the Said Herring creeke the Same he fully gave to him
for his use & behoofe and did thereby order that hee should have
the Same when he should bee att the compleate Age of 21 Years And
hee did also thereby give & bequeath unto the Complt Ann his Debts
& Legacies being payd att the Age of eighteen Years all his psonall
Estate Land moveables & Immoveables wtsoever should be found
due to his Said estate and hee did thereby order and determine that
in case shee should dye that half e of his Said lands and Estate should
be given to his Said Sonn in Law Joseph Bullet the other moyty
to bee Imployed in the Setting iforward a ffreeschool and in Case
Bullet should dye before one and twenty years of Age his will was
that the above menconed Effects should bee wholly and Solely dis-
posed and employed aboute the ffreeschole aforesaid and in case the
Said Joseph should dye before he come to one and twenty years of
Age he did order and bequeath the Land to him Bequeathed to ye
complt Ann to be enioyed att the Age of eightene years as aforesaid
And lastly hee did thereby order & appoint his Trusty and beloved
ifreinds the Defd.ts to the Seeing of that his last will & Testam.t
executed & prformed according to ye Tenor & true meaning thereof
after whose death ye Defdts as Trustees or Guardians to the complt
Ann tooke posscon of the Said Reall & Personall Estate & pcured
letters of Admcon of the Said Estate the Estate to bee to them
Comitted and by virtue thereof disposed thereof att their wills &
pleasures & exhibited an Inventory thereof out of which Severall
goods belonging to the Said Personall Estate were omitted And
the Said Complt Ann being arrived att the Age of Sixteene Years &
having Married the complt Richard who are of Years of discreccon
Sufficient to manage his owne Estate the Said Comp.lts have De-
manded posscon of the Said Reall & Personall Estate & to have the
Said defdts accot to them for the measne proffits of the Said Estate &
proceed & increase thereof they the sd Defdts still deteyne the Same
Refuseing to Render the Comp.lt any acco.t thereof or maintenance
out of the Same whereby no Improvem.t cann be made thereof they
prtefldiflg the Same is not to come to the comp.lts bill the comp.lt Ann
atteine the Age of eighteene Years according to the expresse words
of the will & So keepe the Comp.lts out of possession contrarie to
Equity To the intent therefore to have the said defd.ts accot for the
Said psonall estate and to have the decree of this court to compell
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