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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       payment of the debts the Comp.lts to pay the same and to avoid Law
       suits was forced to sell some of his Negroes at under rates to pay the
       same and yet they could not procure the said Ocane to give the
       Comp.lts any security for payment of what he was indebted to the
       estate of Brayne could they get him to make to the Comp.lts
       any better Conveyance of the Moiety of all his Lands given upon
       their marriages as aforesaid Nor did the Comp.lts much troble
       themselves about the same being informed by those vested in
       the Law that they had a good title in the said moiety by virtue
       of the said Writeing in Franck marriage being made in Consideracon
       of marriage then which noe Consideracon greater in
       Law  Nor did the Comp.lts doubt but that the said John Ocane
       in Consideracon of the p.rmisses and his greate debt to the Comp.lts
       as aforesaid besides Tobacco and Goods belonging to the estate
       of Brayne rec.d of Cap.t Brandt to the sum of 7000.ℓ of Tobacco
       and 431.ℓ of Tobacco payd Coll Chandler and Three barrells of
       Corne lent him would settle all his lands (as he had often
       promised) on the Comp.lts and their heirs forever after the deathe
       of him the said John Ocane  And soe knowing the low Condicon of
       the said Ocane through his own ill husbandry they were loath
       to put him trouble being their Father he being otherwise like
       to come into trouble about 12000.ℓ of Tobacco to Coll Pye and
       Philip Lynes he come to the Comp  And the said John Ocane being in
       greate straights to to pay the debts to them which he could not pay
       he desired the Comp.lt to pay Pye and Lynes which if the plt Edward
       would doe and allow him a Competent maintainance dureing his life
       he would make over to the Comp.lts the residue of all his Goods Lands &
       Chattells he haveing given them one half as aforesaid  And they further
       shewed that the said Ocane being already indebted to the Comp.lts and
       Braynes Estate more then his whole estate was worth and not knowing
       otherwise how to secure the same and not knowing but he might
       have procured from his Daughter Jane some discharge as to Braynes
       Estate and to keep peace and amity the Comp.lts consented to pay Pye
       and Lynes for the doeing whereof and to supply the necessity of his
       family he was forced to sell the rest of his Negroes  Whereupon the said
       John Ocane by his Indenture Dated the 28.th day of April An.o Dm 1683
       in Consideracon that the plt should maintaine the said Ocane dureing
       his life and pay M.r Pye and M.r Lynes and other consideracons him
       moveing the said John Ocane did Give Grante Bargaine and Sell to the
       Comp.lts and the heirs of their bodyes for ever the half of Ocanes purchase
       being 700 acres in the whole butted and bounded as in the Bill is menconed
       that is to say the moiety of the 700 acres which lies next adjoyning to the
       Land of M.r Chandler and in default of such Issue to the Comp.lt Edward
       for life Remaind.r to John Ocane and his heirs forever  And he did alsoe
       by another Deed of the same Date Grante in the same manner the
       Land called Jericho which two last Deeds were the same day acknowledged
       before two Justices according to the Law By vertue of which
       Deeds and the writeing made before marriage the said Comp.lts
       (as they were advised) and Ocane did alsoe assure them the p.lts become
       rightfully intituled to one moiety of Canes purchase and all other the
       said Ocanes Lands in the said province to the use of the said Comp.lts
       and their heirs for ever according to the true intent and meaning
       of the said writeing and memorand.m of and in the other moiety
       of Canes purchase and the two hundred and fifty acres called Jericho


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