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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       Adm.x of the said Willm Russell Thirteene hundred seaventy and one pounds of
       Tobacco and alsoe Robert Proctor of the same County by bill and accompt the sume
       of Nine thousand one hundred eighty and foure pounds of tobacco in all the
       sume of sixteene thousand three hundred and six pounds of tobacco Hee the said Joseph
       Moorely haveing a good and poor intencon to pay and satisfie all his Just and due
       Debts due by his last will and Testament in writeing under his hand and seale
       bearing date the fourth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred
       seaventy two Give and bequeath to the Defendants (who^m^ he made full and whole Ex.rs
       of his last will and Testament) all his Estate both real land personall and thereunto
       to satisfie and pay all his Just and due debts and shortly after dyed  After whose
       death the said Defendants entred into and possessed themselves of all the reall
       and personall estate of the said Joseph Moorely Subject to y.e payment of
       his debts as aforesaid and tooke upon them the burthen of the said Executo.rpp
       and proved the said will The said Joseph Moorelys reall and personall estate
       being sufficient to pay his Just debts with an overplus and in pticuler the several
       debts due to the said plaintiffes  But the Comp.lts applying themselves to the
       Defendants to have satisfaction for them said Debts they the said Defendants
       p.rtended they had not assetts in their hands of the personall estate of the said
       Deceased over and above the said Debt due to the said Defendant Proctor
       funerall charges and charges of proveing the will to satisfie the Comp.lts Debts
       And the said reall estate and Land aforesaid them devised as aforesaid and by will
       of the said Joseph Moorely made by a bill to the payment of his debts could not be by them
       sold for the raising of Tobacco for paym.t thereof by reason of some defect in the pennings
       of the said Will because the will did not say ^that^ he devised all his reall estate to the said
       Defendants and their heyres for ever and for want of the words (and their heyres for
       ever) the said Defend.ts were (in strictnes of Law) but Tennants for life of and in
       to the premisses the Revercon expectant upon their deaths being discredible to the
       next heyre att Law of the said Joseph Moorely and in case of noe such heyres the same
       were (after their deaths) escheatable to the Right Hon.ble the Lord Prop.ry for want of
       such heyres  Whereas in truth it was apparent by words of the said will that the
       said reall and personall estate should goe to the paym.t of his Debts which could
       noe otherwise bee then by sale of the said Lands  And the sale could not be good
       unless they had an Inheritance in the same in fee simple and that the intencon
       of the said deceased Joseph Moorely was to have the same devised to his
       Ex.rs aforesaid in fee simple and yett the said Ex.rs were ready and willing to pay
       and satisfie the plts said Debts Provided he might by the Decree of this Court
       bee enabled to make a good sale of the premisses therefore that the said


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