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111 West S.t Maryes in free & Comon Soccage by fealty onely for all manner of services under the yearly Rent of five pounds fourteene shillings starl or eleaven Barrells and Two Bushells of good Corne as bÿ the said Letters pattents Ready to be produced under the great Seale of this Province might more att large appear by vertue whereof the said William Hawley became seized and possessed of the said Lands and premisses in his Demesne as ^of^ fee and being soe seized and haveing a great kindnesse & affection for the Comp.lt being his good Sonne and minding & intended to settle all or most part of the said Lands & premisses on the Comp.lt & his heyres and assignes for ever hee the said Captain William Hawley did about the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Six hundred fifty and four make his last will and testament in writeing sealed and published in the Presence of Divers Credible wittnesses and therein and thereby amongst other things did give devise and bequeath the said Lands and Premisses to the Comp.lt & his heyres and assignes for ever and shortly after dyed leaving the Comp.lt an Infant of about two yeares old after whose death the Comp.lt by vertue of the said will became Legally intituled to the said Lands and premisses & then ought to have held and Enjoyed the same according to the will of the said William Hawleÿ and to have an accompt of the measne profitts raised and Received out of the Premisses from such persons as had held and Enjoyed the same dureing the Comp.lts minority and the Comp.lt having then lately atteyned his age of one and Twenty yeares & Comeing to looke after his Right & title to the Premisses and to have possession of the Premisses But the said Thomas Mathews the Elder George Charlsworth Henry Ryder Joseph Hackneÿ W.m Clawe & Sarah his wife the widow of William Cole dec.d and Richard Cole an infant sonne and heyre of the said right and title to the Premisses they or some of them had gotten into Possession of severall parcells of the Premises & had gotten possession of the said Originall Will of the said W.m Hawleÿ which they did suppresse and Conwale the same or knowing that the same in the tyme of the late Rebellions in this Province was Lost or mislaid that the Comp.lt could not procure the Same to Justifie his title to the Premisse they the Said Confederates did deny and refuse to Discover where the same will was or to (Deliver) |
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