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536 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. Liber P C seaven Exhibitt his bill of Complt into this Court against the said Defendant Thereby setting forth That one Nicholas Emerson of Charles County deed haveing marryed Elizabeth the Complt Richards mother by whom he had a great estate in this Province and in Virginia which he sold and disposed off to his owne use without leaveing anything in case hee dyed for the mainteyance of his Said wife or the Comp.lt Richard and John Beck his brother deed Hee the Said Nicholas afterwards minding to settle on them the said Elizabeth and the Comp.lt Richard and his brother some Land for their future mainteynance about seaven yeares then since bought of one Thomas Allenson a pcell of Land in Charles County called Howland conteyning two hundred acres which hee did settle on Stephen Mountague by Deed duely executed but in trust for the said Elizabeth and her Children and then too be a Deed from Mountague to declare the Trust or bonds of Twenty thousand pounds of Tobacco penalty that Stephen Mountague should Convey the same to ifeoffees in trust for the said Elizabeth and the Comp.lts father and his said Brother That before such deed made in Trust the said Nicholas Emerson dyed about six yeares then since and the Said Elizabeth soone after also dyed and the said Stephen Mountague as their Executo.r or Adm.r entred into and possessed himselfe of ye said Emersons personall estate and all their writeings and perticularly of the said Deed of Trust or bonds aforesaid and shortly after dyed haveing first made his Will and the Defendant Executor to whom he devised the said Land as the Compits had then heard And the said Defendant ever since the death of the said Stephen Moun p. 146 tagne kept possession and received the Profitts thereof refuseing to deliver the same to the Complt Richard to whom the interest of the Trust aforesaid was wholly then come the said John being deced according to the Trust aforesaid And the Complt Richard being newly come of age demanded the performance of the Trust afore- said and to have the possession of the premisses delivered to him but the defendant did absolutely deny the same or that there was any trust aforesaid Therefore to discover the trust and to examine his Wittnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam they being very aged and infirme and to have ye said Lands called Howland to the said Compits Decreed and his heyres for ever according to the Said Trust and that ye Said Richard might bee releived in ye premisses according to Equity hee humbly craveing the ayd and assistance of this honble Court and that pcesse of Subp :a might bee thereout awarded against the said Defendant to appeare in the said Court and answer the premisses The which being graunted and the said Defendant therewithall served hee appeared accordingly and putt in his answere to the Said bill and therein did sett forth That the said Nicholas Emerson haveing purchased the Said Land called Howland |
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