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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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