Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.  527

      Betweene Jn.o Haslewood & Ann his wife Ex.rs of the Last Will Liber P C
    & Testam.t of John Avery deced Comp.lts & Benj :a Granger Def.t
    This Cause comeing on in the Docquett this day to be heard & debated
    in the prseflze of Robert Carvile Attorney for the Comp.lts & Robt
    Ridgley Attorney for the Def.ts the Substance of the Comp.lts Bill
    appeares to be That the said John Avery the former husband of the
    said Ann in the Month of May in the yeare of our Lord One Thou-
    sand Six hundred Seaventy Six intending a voyage for England
    about his then urgent affairs there & Such his intencons being made
    Knowne to the said Benj :a Granger who had married the daughter
    of the said Jno Avery he the said Benj :a Granger became an
    earneast Sueter & Solicitr to the said John Avery that he & his wife
    might accompany him the said John Avery in that voyage he the sd
    Benj :a Granger prtending he had some considerable Estate befallen
    him in England & without the Said Jn.° Avery's assistance in pro-
    cureing a passage for him & his wife & paying for the Same he
    could not goe to looke after his said Estate And that if the said
    John would doe him that kindness he the said Benj :a did not onely
    promise to repay what he should Lay & disburse for him the same
    Benj. Granger & his wife but alsoe that thcy would bc vcry Scr-
    viceable to him in assisting him both in his passage aboard the Shipp
    as alsoe in England in what he should Comand them And thereupon
    the said John Avery was perswaded to take the sd Benj :a Granger &
    his wife along with him into Virgenea where the Shipp they were
    to goe in Lay at Anchor & tooke them on board & paid theire passages
    to Cap.t Abraham Wheeler Comander of the said Shipp Three
    pounds Sterl. & Lent the Said Benj :a One pound Sterling to keepe
    his pockett when he came for England And further sett forth that
    they being safely arrived in England & the sd Benj.a finding himself e
    ifrustrated in his Espectacons he the sd Benj.a Granger & his wife
    desired the Assistance of theire said ffather the said Jn.o Avery who
    out of Love & kindness to them took Lodgeings for them & paid for
    the Same from the Twentieth day of June One Thousand Six
    hundred Seaventy & Six till the ifoure & Twentieth day of Novemb.r
    ifollowing Att which time they came on board the Shipp for theire
    returne to this Province And that the said John Avery haveing
    received a Considerable Sume of Money in England he entrusted the
    said Benj :a Granger Sometimes with the keepeing thereoof & Laying
    out severall Suihes for him & lent him money to buy himselfe &
    wife & Serv.t & Clothes & for the paying of his passage for him &
    his wife & two servants & entrusted him with Severall Goods of a
    Considerable value a perticuler whereof which by accident they
    ifound under the hands of the sd Benj :a Granger they have ready to
    produce And also with severall other Sumes of money & Goods to a