Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.541

     did grant bargaine sell and Confirme unto Wittm Roppier Shipp- Liber P C
     Carpenter, one hundred acres of Land out of the said Land called
     Moorelys Lott which hundred acres of Land Begineth att a bounded
     white oake, and runing south by Merreine Devalls Land sixty perches
     to a bounded oake in Devalls Line, thru west and by north three
     hundred and eighty pches to a marked oake, Then north-north-east
     sixty perches to another marked oake, then East and by south to
     the first bounded Tree. To have and to hold the said one hundred
     acres unto him the said Wittm Roppier his heyres and assignes for
     ever, And the said Joseph Moorely being Soc seized and possessed
     and being indebted to your Orato :r and severall other persons in
     Considerable Summes of Tobacco, that is to say to your Orato :r
     John Larkaine by bill One thousand pounds of tobacco and by order
     of Court Sixteene hundred pounds of Tobacco, to your Orato.r
     Nathaniell Heathcott by bill and accompt six hundred and one pounds
     of Tobacco, to your Orato.r Marriage [sic] Devall by accompt foure
     hundred pounds of Tobacco to your Orato.r John Beamont as adm.r
     of Arthur Briscoe Two thousand pounds of tobacco to your Orato.r
     Gabriel Parret by order of Court One hundred and fifty pounds of
     tobacco, to your Orato.r Leonard Coates and his wife Adm :x of the
     Said Wittm Russell Thirteene hundred seaventy and one pounds of p. 150
     Tobacco, and alsoe Robert Practor of the same County by bill and
     accompt the sume of Nine thousand one hundred eighty and four
     pounds of tobacco in all the sume of sixteene thousand three hundred
     and six pounds of tobacco, Hee the Said Joseph Moorely haveing a
     good and puer intencon to pay and satisfie all his Just and due
     Debts due by his last will and Testament in writeing under his hand
     and seale bearing date the fourth day of aprill in the yeare of our
     Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy two, Give and bequeath
     to the Defendants (whom he made full and whole Ex.r of his said last
     will and Testament) all his Estate both reall and personall and
     thereout to satisfie and pay all his Just and due debts and shortly
     after dyed, After whose death the said Defendants entred into and
     possessed themselves of all the reall and personall estate of the said
     Joseph Moorely Subject to ye payment of his debts as aforesaid and
     tooke upon them the burthen of the said Executorpp and proved the
     said will, The said Joseph Moorelys reall and personall estate being
     sufficient to pay his Just debts with an overplus and in pticuler the
     severall debts due to the said plaintiffes, But the Compits applying
     themselves to the Defendants to have satisfaction for them said Debts
     they the said Defendants prtended they had not assetts in their hands
     of the personall estate of the said Deceased over and above the said
     Debt due to the said Defendant Proctor funerall charges and
     charges of proveing the will to satisfie the Complts Debts And the
     said reall estate and Land aforesaid them devised as aforesaid and
     by will of the said Joseph Moorely made by a bill to the payment