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552 NEALE v. HAGTHROP.
John Hooky deceased, William McMechen, John Cator, John S.
King, John Weaver, Samuel Moore, George A. Hughes, John Fitz-
gerald, Catharine Rawlings and Benjamin Rawlings, executors of
William Rawlings, Matthew Bennett and Nathaniel Chittenden.
The bill states, that the plaintiff, on the 5th of April, 1820, took
out letters of administration de bonis non upon the estate of the
late Anthony Hook, which had been left unadministered by Mary
Hook, deceased, the former administratrix; and that the intestate
Anthony Hook being the owner, and in possession in his life-time
of certain chattels real, and personal property, conveyed the whole
to his son John Hook, by the following indenture:
'This indenture, made the seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, between
Anthony Hook, of Baltimore county in the state of Maryland,
brickmaker, of the one part, and John Hook, son of the said
Anthony, of the county and state aforesaid, of the other part.
Whereas, the said Anthony Hook is justly and bona fide indebted
to John Moale, Esquire, of Baltimore city in the county aforesaid,
for arrears of rent; to Colonel Robinson and George Gray, of Anne
Arundel county; Abel Cheney, of Anne Arundel county; John
Kirwan, of Snowhill, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; Milburn,
of Snowhill; Littleton Furnis, of Snowhill; John Rean, of Snow-
hill aforesaid; also to Sarah Smith, widow, of Baltimore county;
Joshua Amos, of Baltimore county aforesaid; Joshua Hendrickson;
Valentine Sneider; William Hodge; and Margaret Croxall, of
Baltimore county, in several sums of money; and whereas the
said John Hook, his son, hath agreed to pay the several creditors
of his said father Anthony, their several and respective debts.
Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that the said Anthony
Hook, as well in consideration of the above recited premises, as
also for and in consideration of the natural love and affection he
hath and beareth towards his said son John Hook; and the further
consideration of the sum of five shillings, current money of Mary-
land, to him in hand paid by the said John Hook, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, he the said Anthony Hook hath
given, granted, bargained and sold, assigned, transferred and set
over; and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain and sell,
assign, transfer and set over unto him, the said John Hook, his exe-
cutors, administrators and assigns, all those ten acres of land, being
part of a tract of land called David's Fancy, lying in Baltimore
county; beginning, for the said ten acres, at a post set up at or near
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