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138) At a Court of Chancery held at the Citty of S.t Mary's the Seaventeenth day of October in the Third yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoq Dmi 1678 Present The Hon.rble Philip Calvert Esq.r Chancell.r W.m Calvert Esq.r princ.ll Secry Thomas Tailor Esq.r Henry Coursey Esq.r Betweene Jn.o Haslewood & Ann his wife Ex.rx of the Last Will & Testam.t of John Avery deced Comp.lt & Benj.a Ganger Def.t This Cause comeing on in the Docquett this day to be heard & debates in the p.rsence of Robert Carvile Attorney for the Comp.lt & Rob.t Ridgely Attorney for the Def.ts the Substance of the Comp.lts Bill appeared to be That the said John Avery the former husband of the said Anne in the Month of May in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred Seaventy Six intending a voyage for England about his then urgent affaires there & Such his intencons being made knowne to the said Benj.a Granger who had married the daughter of the said Jn.o Avery he the said Benj.a Granger became an earnest sueter & solicito.r to the said John Avery that he & his wife might accompany him the sd John Avery in that voyage he the sd Benj.a Granger p.rtending he had some considerable Estate befallen him in England & without the said Jn.o Avery assistance in procureing a passage for him & his wife & paying for the same he could not goe to looke after his said Estate And that if the said John would doe him that kindnes he the said Benj.a did not onely promise to repay what he should Lay & disburse for him the said Benj.a Granger & his wife but alsoe that they would be very serviceable to him in assisting him both in his passage aboard the shipp as alsoe in England in what he should Comand them And thereupon the said John Avery was perswaded to take the sd Benj.a Granger & his wife along with him into Dirgenea where the Shipp they were to goe in Lay at Anchor & tooke them on board & paid theire passages to Cap.t Abraham Wheeler & Comander of the said Shipp Three pounds sterl & Lent the said Benj.a one pound Sterling to keepe his pockett when he came for England And further sett forth that they being safely arrived in England & the sd Benj.a Granger finding himselfe Frustrated in his Expectations he the sd Benj.a Granger & his wife desired the Assistance of theire said Father the said Jn.o Avery who out of Love & kindnes to them to be Lodgeings for them & paid for the same from the Twentieth day of June One Thousand six hundred Seaventy & six till the Foure & Twentieth day of Novemb.r Following Att which time they came on board the shipp for theire returne to this Province And that the said John Avery haveing received a Considerable Sume of Money in England he entrusted the said Benj.a Granger Sometimes with the keepeing thereof & Laying out Severall Sumes for him & lent him money to buy himselfe & wife serv.ts & Cloths & for the paying of his passage for him & his wife & two servants & entrusted him with severall Goods of a Considerable value a perticuler whereof which by accident they Found under the hand of the sd Benja Granger they have ready to produce [illegible] with severall other sumes of money & Goods to a great value & that he the Com.plts [illegible] And they further sett forth that the said John Avery dyed before he came on shore Leaving all his money & Goods in the possession of the said Benj.a Granger he the said |
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