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(161) the affidavitt of y.e said Comp.lt John Haselwood and the retourne of y.e processe aforesaid to the great hinderance of the Comp.lts in the Execucon and performance of the will of the said John Avery and therefore it was prayed that since the said Benjamin Granger was fled out of the Jurisdiction of our said Court that our writt of Sequestration might awarded to some Justice of y.e peace of our said County of Dorchester County directed to enter into seize and Sequester into their hands and possession of Lands goods and Chattles of him the said Benjamin Granger in the actuall possession of him the said Benjamin Granger in this owne pp right att the time of the makeing and pnounceing of the said Decree be the same in the hands and Custody or possession of the said John Pollard or of any other person or persons whatsoever and the same soe entred upon seized and sequestered as aforesd the same Lands goods and Chattles to the said John Haselwood and his wife to deliver for the sattisfaction of their said debt and Cost of suite to them Decreed as aforesaid whereupon our said Court abhorring such Clandestine and fraudulent practices and being willing that the Decrees of our said Court should be inviolably kept & pformed and due obedience given thereunto did order that our said writt of Sequesteracon doe Issue accordingly directed to you Thomas Taylor and John Alford and for your better pceedings hearein that your should be armed with our Comission to Examine wittnesses to prove the Value of y.e Lands and goods and Chattles that were in the possession of the said Benjamin Granger at the time of the pnoucneing of the said Decree and in whose hands Custody or possession the same are now and by what right or title and when made and Executed and for what Consideration & the ^Lands^ goods & Chattles soe seized and sequestred as aforesaid that you doe deliver to the said Comp.lts for sattisfaction of their debt and costs Decreed as aforesaid accordingly Now Know yee that wee trusting to your fidellities and prudent Circumspections have assigned you and by Vertue of these p.rsents doe give unto you full power and authority to enter upon seize and taken ^into^ yo.r possession all the Lands goods Cattle and Chattells that were in the possession of him the said Benjamin Granger at the time of the makeing and pronounceing of the said Decree to witt upon the said seaventeenth day of October one thousand six hundred seaventy eight and the same sequestred the same to deliver to the possession of the said Comp.lts for sattisfaction of their debt of Twenty foure pounds sterling and three thousand three hundred fifty and five pounds of Tobaccoe to them Decreed as aforesaid and for your better proceedings in the premisses wee doe hereby give unto you the full power and authority of enquireing as well by the Deposicons and Examinacons of Certaine wittnesses to be pduced and Examined before you as by any other manner or way by which the truth of the premisses may bee the better found out and discovered as to you shall seeme meete what Lands goods Cattle and Chattles the said Benjamin Granger was seized or possessed of at the said day of pnounceing the |
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