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452 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675. Liber P C them thereunto & to Deliver upp posscon thereof & of the Said Lands p.68 & prmisses Devised aforesd to the comp.tth Richard & Ann in Right of the Said Ann or that they might have maintenance thereout they the Sd Comp.lts Humbly Craved the ayd & assistance of this Hono.ble Court & yt pcesse of Spa might be thereout awarded against the Sd defd.ts for them to appear & answear the Said bill To which bill of the Said comp.lts the Said defdts all of them appeared & put in their Joynt & Severall answers to the Said bill & thereby did Set forth that ye Said John Price did make Such will as in the bill is Set forth & after dyed leaving the Comp.lt Ann about two Years old after whose death the Defd.ts as overseers of the Said Will & Guardians to the Said Infant did in pursuance of the Trust in them Reposed by the Said John Price his will and out of a tender care they had for the Orphan & to prserve the Estate from being wasted they caused the Said Will to be proved & procured ters of Admcon to bee to them Comitted in pursuance of a Law then in force Intituted an act for prservacon of Orphans estates and by virtue thereof possed them- selves of the Said Deceaseds psonall estate & Stock as they could finde and caused the same to be Appraysed & Inventor ized & exhibited an Inventory thereof into the Court for Probate of wills & granting Admcons and tooke uppon them ye tuition & educacon of the Comp.lt Ann And being So in possion of ye Said decds Estate the comissiors of S.t Maries County did in pursuance of the Said Law for prservacon of Orphans Estates & the Authority thereby to them given as was then usuall in Such Cases Sumon the Said defd.ts to give them an accot of the said Estate which the Said defdts did according as by a coppy thereof to the Said answer annexed might Appeare amounting to the Sume of twenty thowsand ffivc hundred and ffifty pounds of tobacco which acco.t followeth in these words the acco.t of Coll John Prices Estate prserved by the overseers of the Said Estate the 6th day of September 1664 The Estate Creditors p W.m Hollingsworth Six thowsand pounds of tobacco p william Price p Contract ffifteene hundred pounds of tobacco p Anthony Griffin besides Court Charges ifour hundred pounds of tob W.m Palmer Exrs Seaven hundred pounds p Wm Watts foure hundred twenty two pounds p Peter p.69 Watts nine hundred pounds p ffr. Hill three hundred pounds p Thomas Hinto[n] two hundred Sixty two pounds p Thomas Bennet nine hundred & Seaven pounds p Wm Canaday one hundred Sixty nine pounds p ffrancis Jackson One thowsand in bedding &C att Daniell Clockers vallued according to Appraysem.t Seaven hun- dred Ditto with Joseph Bullet vallued at three hundred & ffifty p Mr Wm Hatton two thowsand pounds p Daniell Clocker two thow- sand eight hundred & Seventy p George Macall ffoure thowsand & p Tho: Dent Seaventy Nine pound of tobacco twenty two thowsand ffive hundred ffifty Six pounds tob p Thomas Dent in money two pounds tenn shillings Coil Prices Estate Dr 1664 p order of Court |
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