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377) could receive from him either y.e aforesaid quantity of tobacco due by bond or y.e s.d bills of Exc.° for y.e s.d sum of sixty five pounds sterl or y.e Debt due to him by Account as aforesaid Whereupon y.e s.d Gabriel being desirous to secure what he could of y.e s.d Debt applyed himself to y.e Comissary Gen.ll for administration upon y.e s.d Longmans Estate as y.e greatest Credit.r w.ch upon making it appear y.t y.e s.d Longman was so as aforesaid indebted to him was granted But y.t upon an Inventory & appraisment made of y.e s.d Longmans personall Estate y.e s.d Gabriel found y.e same was not sufficient to pay him y.e Debt due by acc.t as aforesaid & y.t therefore for want of effects he was left utterly remediless as to both y.e s.d Debts due to him by bonds w.th y.e Interest thereof from y.e severall times they were payable inasmuchas one Steven Longman Heir at Law of y.e s.d Dan.ll Longman lives in England Who if he were in this province might be empleaded by y.e s.d Gabriel for y.e s.d Debts there being a plantation of about three hundred Acres descended to him from y.e s.d Dan.ll Longman his brother whereof y.e s.d Parrot is possessed & to his vast Charge trouble & expence has defended at Law ag.st persons claiming a Title thereunto & therefore being left utterly remediless at Comon Law in y.e s.d Matters has applyed himself for Redress to this Court Wherefore having matured considered y.e Reasons Justice & equity wch appears for relieving y.e s.d Gabriell in y.e premisses We do order determine & Decree That he y.e s.d Gabriel continue in y.e full peaceable & quiet possession of y.e s.d plantation whereon y.e s.d Daniel Longman lived & all y.e appurtenances thereunto belonging as well against y.e heir at Law of y.e s.d Daniel as ag.st all & every other pson or psons whatsoever claiming or y.t may claim any Right Title or Interest from y.e s.d heir at Law or any other claiming by from or under him untill such time as he y.e s.d Gabriel Parrot be fully & compleatly satisfied & paid all such sum or sums of Money or Title w.th y.e legall Interest thereof wch upon y.e s.d Gabriels pfecting and compleating his acc.ts of his Adm.ron upon y.e s.d Dan.ll Longmans estate w.th y.e Comiss.ry Gen.ll for y.e time being shall appear to be justly due to [illegible] ments wch have been by him made & expended in defending y.e title of s.d Land or plantation ag.st such psons as have pretended a Title thereunto & sued for y.e same since y.e death of y.e s.d Longman This is ordered determined & decreed in & by y.e Court of Chancery sitting & held at y.e port & town of Annapolis in Ann Arundell County this tenth day of March in y.e tenth year of y.e Reign of our soveraign Lord William y.e third of England Scotland France & Ireland King Defend.r of y.e faith &c & in y.e year of our Lord God 1697/8 Sealed w.th y.e great Seal & signed Henry Jowles Chanc.llr Francis |
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