Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.  551

          Att a Court of Chancery held att the Citty of Saint    Liber P C
        Maryes the sixteenth day of Octob.r one thousand six hun-
        dred seaventy Nine betweene John Haselwood and Ann his
        wife Ex :x of the last will and Testament of John Avery
        Comp :lts and Benjamin Granger Defendant.

                          Present

        The hono :ble Philip Calvert Escp Chancello.r
        The hono .ble Wm Calvert Esp Secretary
        The hono :ble Coll Vincent Lowe Esp Surveyo.r Gen.ll
 The hono :ble Coll Wm Stevens Esq    Councello.rs

      ifor as much as this Court was this day informed by Robert Carvile
     attorny for the Complt in this cause that upon the seaventeenth day
     of October in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred
     seaventy Eight the Complts obtained a Decree in this Cause against
     the said defendant for the sume of twenty foure pound Sterling
     and the sume of Three thousand three hundred fifty five pounds of
     tobacco for costs of suite But before ye Comp.lts could procure the
     said defend.t to be served with a writt of Execucon of the said
     Decree or could bee apprehended upon pcesse of contempt for
     breath of the said Decree hee the said Defendant to the intent to
     defraud ye Complt of the fruite and benefitt of the said Decree did
     privately and fraudulently sell and Convey away all his Estate both
     reall and personall to One John Pollard of Dorchester County who
     was privy to and made acquainted with the said Decree before the
     Said purchase and he the Said Benj :a Granger is since the Said
     Decree Runn away out of this Province into parts unknowne and a
     Coppy of the Execucon of the said Decree hath beene left with the
     said Defendants wife and there hath beene two non est inventus
     returned upon an Attachm.t and attachm.t with Proclamacon issued
     out against ye Defendant for breach of the said Decree all which
     appeared to this Court by the affidavit of the Complt John Hasel-
     wood and the returne of ye pcesse aforesaid to the great hinderance p. 160
     of the Complts in the Execucon and pformance of the will of the
     said Deceased and therefore it was prayed since the said Benjamin
     was fled out of the Jurisdiction of this Court that a Sequestration
     may be awarded to the same Justices of the peace of the said County
     of Dorchester directed to Enter into Seize and sequester into their
     hands and possession the lands goods and Chattles of him the said
     Benjamin Granger which were in the Actuall possession of the said
     Benjamin Granger in his owne pper right at the time of makeing
     and pronounceing of ye said Decree bee the same in the hands custody
     or possession of the said John Pollard or of any other person or
     persons whatsoever and the same soe seized and Entred upon and
     sequestred as aforesaid the same Lands goods & Chattels to the said