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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 105   View pdf image
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       And att Last this Defend.t for supply and releif of the Comp.lts necessity agreed
       with him in Manner and form following that is to say that he the said Comp.lt     
       should enter and seale upon the said one thousand acres of Land of the other
       Defend.ts  And that in case the other Defend.t upon his Returne from England should
       refuse to convey & assure to the Comp.lt such Estate of Inheritance of the Premises
       as was usuall in this Province in cases of like nature in Consideration of Twenty
       Thousand pounds of Tobacco that is to say two Thousand pounds of Tobacco for
       every one hundred Acres of Land or soe much of hee the said Comp.lts land att the
       Ridge which he pretended he was then seized of in Fee in Lieu thereof or part
       Tobacco & part land att the Choice of the other Defend.t Nathaniell and in case
       the said Defendent Nathaniell should refuse to make good the said sale or
       Exchang this Defend.t did ingage to reimburse the Comp.t such charges as he
       should be att in seating cleering and building uppon the Premisses and
       beleeved he gave the Comp.lt a noate under his hand to that purpose  And
       thereupon the Comp.lt entered and became possessed of the Premisses but was
       not putt into possession by this Defend.t  And he further said that about
       the moneth of Januarÿ in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred
       Sixty Seaven the other Defend.t Nathaniell Returning from England
       this Def.t acquainted him with the agreement abovesaid whereupon
       the said other Defend.t declared and made knowne to the Comp.lt his willingnesse
       and readinesse to Confirme the same and to accept of twenty Thousand
       pounds of Tobacco for his interest in the Premisses and to make such Conveyance
       of the Inheritance thereof was usuall in like Cases in case the
       Comp.lt would have paid or reasonably Secured the payment of the said     
       twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco which he altogether refused and neglected
       to doe neither did he pay or Secure the payment of the same or any part
       thereof to the Defend.ts knowledge but Continued the possession of the premisses
       and afterwards the other Defend.t agreed with the Comp.lt that in case the
       Comp.lt would pay the said Def.t tenn Thousand pounds of Tobacco and assure
       the Inheritance of five hundred Acres of good Land upon the Ridge
       part of the mannor there belonging to the Right honn.rble the Lord Proprietary
       such as this Defend.t should approve of unto the said other Defend.t or
       such as he should appoint the said other Defend.t would Convey and assure
       the said one Thousand acres of Land unto the Comp.lt in fee Simple  And
                                                                                           (Thereupon)
      


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