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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       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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