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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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