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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 111   View pdf image
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       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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