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556 NEALE v. HAGTHROP.
ought to be accounted for as a part of the estate of Anthony Hook;
that after advising with counsel she agreed, that the ten acre lot
should be sold so as to effect a distribution thereof among the heirs
and representatives of Anthony Hook, which was made accordingly;
that several years after those transactions, and after her marriage
with the defendant Edward, she and her husband preferred the
petition, as stated in the bill, in which they deemed it proper to
present to the view of the Orphans Court the said paper upon
which the said children and heirs of the said Anthony Hook had
relied to prove, that the said property did not belong to the said
John Hook as his absolute property, but was only held by him in
trust for the said Anthony and his representatives; and which was
accordingly received by the said court, and the final account of the
said administration of the said estate of John Hook, was passed
and closed.
The defendant Bennett, by his answer filed on the 14th of Feb-
ruary, 1822, says, that the defendants Hagthrop and wife for a
valuable consideration, to them actually paid, did by indenture,
made on the 3d of August, 1810, convey to him a part of the ten
acre lot as therein described; 'that he had no knowledge or notice
of any claim of the said complainant, or of the heirs and repre-
sentatives of the said Anthony Hook, deceased, either before or
at the time of the said conveyance of the said property mentioned
in the said indenture, of, in and to the said property therein men-
tioned; nor had this defendant any knowledge or notice of the said
claim set forth in the said bill of complaint, until since the filing
and exhibition of the said bill of complaint. '
The defendant Fitzgerald put in his answer on the 14th of
February, 1822, in which he says, that on the 4th of September,
1806, he purchased one piece of the ten acre lot of John H. Hill;
and on the 9th of August, 1810, he purchased another piece of the
defendant Edward Hagthrop; and on the 17th of September, 1811,
he purchased a third piece of Girard Tipton; and on the 17th of
June, 1815, he purchased a fourth piece of the defendant Edward
Hagthrop; that the deeds made to him for these four pieces of
ground were bona fide, for a valuable consideration, and without
my notice of any claim being made thereto by this plaintiff, or the
heirs of Anthony Hook, deceased, until the filing of this bill.
The defendant Benjamin Rawlings, as surviving executor of
William Rawlings, deceased, put in his answer, on the 10th of
May, 1822, in which he admits, that he is one of the tenants in
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