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In consideration of the said Marriage then to be solemnized did Give a grante to the said Complts and their heirs for ever one half of all his land for which he would after give full assurance by good deeds As alsoe half of his Stock and one Feather bed and furniture And thereupon [illegible] after the said marriage was Consummated And the Complts further shewed that the said Edward Sannders makeing inspection into Braines estate aforesaid found the same much incumbred with ^debts^ occaconed by the neglect and ill husbandry of John Ocane and alsoe was informed that upon the treaty of marriage betweene Braynes and the plt Jane in the yeare 1684 the said Ocane in Consideracon of that intended marriage and that Brayne would give security to pay his other daughter Susanna Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco on the day of her marriage and maintaine her at Schoole till she should be marryed or for some certain time then agreed upon the said Ocane did promise and agree by writeing under his hand as was reported to Grante and Convey to the said Henry Brayne & Jane his wife and the heirs of Jane in p.rsent possession the 1000 acres called Bueplaines and as to Canes purchase then called Steepside he alledged the same was of that Land of which his Lopp the then Lord prop.ry of this province and promised him the said John Ocane a grante he the said Ocane promised to take out a pattent for the said Land in the name of the said Henry Brayne and Jane his wife to be settled upon them and their heirs betweene them lawfully begotten and in default of such Issue to the heirs of the said Jane only the said Ocane was to hold the same dureing his life That the said Henry Brayne marryed the said Jane and upon the second day of July 1674 the said Brayne by Bill under his hand and seale obliged himself to pay unto the said John Ocane for the use of the said Susanna the sum of Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco at the day of her marriage & carryed her for England and put her to schoole and left his wife being very younge under the tuition of her Father Brayne being then indebted to Randolph Brandt Henry Warren and Henry Adams about the sum of 12917.ℓ of Tobacco which were to be paid at his returne from England And they further shewed that the said John Ocane in the absence of Brayne contrary to his promise did take out the pattent for the said Canes Canes purchase being 700 acres as aforesaid in his own name he haveing as the Complt believes gotten the possession of the agreement between him and Brayne on the marriage and cancelled the same That Brayne kept the said Susanna at Schoole soe long as he lived being about Five years And the said Complainants did further sett forth That the said Henry Brayne about the latter end of the yeare 1674 sent from the Barbados and Consigned to the said Ocane and his wife but in trust for her use seven Negroes and one English hand to be put upon his plantacon either at Beuplanes or on the plantacon where the said Ocane lived and Brayne was to have the proceed of the labour and he alsoe sent severall Barbados Goods as Rum Sugar & Molosses to the said Joane Ocane to the value of 16000.ℓ of Tobacco therewith to pay the said three debts the overplus to deliver to the said Braynes wife All which Ocane received but never payd any the debts but extravagantly wasted the Goods and spent and confirmed the produce of the Negroe labour as alsoe the labour of the English hand afterwards new commencing that Braynes was dead the said Jane administred but her father ordered all but Jane noe account to the Adminstratrix of the produce of the goods and servants labour which he had kept in hand his possession above seven years and their labour could not be less worth then Twelve or Fourteen Thousand pounds of Tobacco p Anum and plts finding the said Ocane had wasted the estate and was not in a Condicon to account and make |
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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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