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continued to reside in this Province, and at the Expiration of the said
three Years, or sooner if his Wife should leave the Province, directed
his Executors to sell and dispose of the said Lots of Ground and
the Improvements thereon to the best Advantage, provided a Sum
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
June 30
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not less than £1500 Sterling could be got for the same, and the
Money arising from such Sale to be disposed of as directed in said
Will; and thereof appointed William Hemsley and Peregrine Tilgh-
man his Executors, who renounced the said Trust, and Letters of
Administration with the said Will thereto annexed hath been granted
to Reuben Merriweather, one of the said Petitioners, who since the
Death of the said John Morton Jordan hath paid the purchase
Money for the said Lots and Houses to Daniel Wolstenholme afore-
said, and taken a Conveyance of the same to John Nesbitt Jordan,
the Son and Heir at Law of the Testator, a Minor, under the Age
of Twenty-one Years, now residing with his Mother in London in
Great Britain, who soon after the Death of her said Husband John
Morton Jordan left this Province, and on or about the 19.th Day
of December, 1772, was by the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
appointed Guardian to her said Son.
It further appears to Your Committee, that the said Dorothy
Jordan, the Widow of John Morton Jordan and Guardian aforesaid,
hath by a Power of Attorney, bearing Date the 30.th Day of Decem-
ber, 1772 empowered and appointed William Bernard, one of the
Petitioners aforesaid, and a certain Thomas Jett, jointly and sever-
ally, for her and in her Name, in all Things relative to the said
Guardianship in America, to act in her Behalf.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Hon-
ourable House.
Signed by Order, John Courts Jones. Cl. Com.
Which was read, and Leave given to bring in a Bill pursuant to
the Prayer of Reuben Merriweather and William Bernard.
M.r Deye brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Report.
By the Committee appointed to examine into the Facts set forth
in the Petition of James Hendricks, and report the same to the
House.
Your Committee, in Consequence of the Order of the House, pro-
ceeded to examine into the Facts contained in said Petition, and do
humbly report to the House as follows:
That it appears to your Committee, that on the first Day of August,
Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and Fifty eight, a Contract was
made by the said James Hendricks and Peter Harman, that in Con-
sideration of the said James Hendricks paying him the said Peter
Harman, his Executors, &c. the Sum of £200 Current Money, the
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