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Proceedings of the Court of Chancery, 1669-1679
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              Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.  559

    all that tract of land called Colchester, Lyeing in Talbott County Liber P C
    formerly now in Kent County Containing by estimacon One thou-
    sand acres, and that being soe seized it may be true that they the
    said Vincent and Hannah Did for the consideracon of the sume
    of tenn thousand pounds of tobacco to them to be paid by the
    Complaynant about the time in the bill for that purpose menconed,
    contract and agree to sell and Convey ye said land to the Corn-
    playant his heires and assignes forever, in Such manner & forme
    as in the said bill is sett forth, and it may bee true the sd Comp.It
    did pay unto the said Vincent Atchinson Some part of the con-
    sideracon for the said Land, But whether hee paid the sume of
    Seaven thousand pounds Tobacco in part of the said tenn thousand p. 167
    pounds. Or how much hee really and bonafide paid the Defendants
    Say they doe not Know, And they doe also beleive it to bee true
    That the said Vincent Atchinson Did enter into such bond of such
    penalty and with Such condicon thereunder Written as in the said
    bill is sett forth, and they further say they beleive it to bee true that
    the said Vincent and Hannah Dureing the life time of the said
    Hannah were always ready and willing to have conveyed and settled
    the said Land by any Law full Deeds to him the said John Baker
    and his heires for ever according to the said Contract and agree-
    ment aforesaid as the said John Baker should reasonably have
    devised and that the said Hannah to shew her readinesse and willing-
    nesse to Joyne with her said husband Vincent in the sale of the
    premisses Did send such lett.r to the Complaynant as in the bill is
    sett forth, and that before ye Complt Did procure the Conveyance
    of the prmisses to bee sealed and executed by the said Vincent and
    Hannah she the said Hannah Dyed Leaveing this Defend.t Robt
    her sonn and heire, to whome after her Death the estate in Lawe of
    and into the ptmisses Descended and Came, and is now in this
    Defendt Robert vested as the Defendts are advised But Whether the
    complt by the Contract and agreemt aforesaid hath any Equitable or
    other right to the same These Defts are wholly ignorant of the
    Lawe in these cases, but referre themselves herein to the Judgment
    of this honourable Court, And these Defendts Say That the said
    Vincent Atchinson shortly after the said Hannah Dyed alsoe haveing
    been allwayes in his life time Ready to have p formed the Condicon
    of the said bond, and to have made what estate hee could Either by
    pcureing his Wife whilst alive to Joyne in the said Deed of sale or
    by any other manner of wayes Or meanes Whatsoever as by Lawe
    or equity hee was capable of for the Suremakeing the pmisses to the
    Complaynant and his heires for ever, And this Defendt Samll Saith
    that true it is the said Vincent Atchinson did dye indebted to seavll
    psons and pticularly to the Deft in seaverall sumes of tobacco, and
    thereupon hee this Defendt did as principall Creditor of the said
    


 
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