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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 783   View pdf image
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       Nevertheless one full Moyety thereof to his the said Edward Dorseys owne
       proper Use and disposall as in and by the same deed remaining on Record in
       the Said Towne Court proceedings relation being thereunto had may more
       at Large appear but does not beleive the same was Executed and Enrolled
       according to Law whereby to pass any Estate from the said Col Dorsey and
       this Defend.t does beleive the Compl.t to be heir at Law of his Brother Edw.d
       Dorsey who dyed without Issue  And further saith that he is not seucible
       of the said Edward Dorseys Necessity for money in the year on 1704 but
       knoweth that on or about the year 1704 An Act of Assembly past to cut of
       the Intale or settlement of the said Houses and Lotts and to Enable Col Edward
       Dorsey to sell them for the use of his said Children but knows nothing of the
       Compl.ts Consent thereto  Has heard and beleives Col Dorsey Conveyed the afd
       houses and Lotts to Charles Carroll and William Bladen Esqs and their heires
       and tooke the said Bladen's Bond dated december y.e 11.th 1704 Conditioned for
       the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling at three severall paym.ts
       Viz.t fifty pounds at the departure of every of the then next three London
       Fleets to the said Col Dorsey his Ex.rs Adm.rs or Assignes  And this defend.t saith that
       he knows nothing of the Note of forty pounds drawne by Col Dorsey M.r Bladen
       on cann he tell for what Consideration nor what promises the said Bladen made to
       pay the same but denying all Combination and Confederacy with all or any
       person or persons whatsoever saith that he never received any part of the
       said purchase money nor did he ever heat that his wife Margarett Ex.rx
       of Edward Dorsey received any part or parcell thereof in her widdowhood
       or that the said Bladen ever pretended he had paid any to them and this
       Defend.t further saith that he hath fully administred Col Dorseys whole
       Estate unless the afd Clayme from the said Bladen due by bond as afd to the
       said Col Dorseys Ex.rs & Adm.rs of one hundred and fifty pound which is Inventoryed
       in Col Dorseys Estate be decreed parcell thereof which he hopes this honble
       Court will see fitt to do the said Col Dorsey having made ample satisfaction to his
       Children for what he had Intended them by the afd Deed of Trust to his Brother
       Cap.t John Dorsey afd by severall devisees in his the Col Dorseys last will and
       Testament and this Defend.t saith that the honble the Comitted for laying the
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