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June
Court
1726
150 not Capable of Choseing a guardian most humbly prays your worships would be pleased to appoint your Petition as being the most Nearest of Kin to ye Decd and as in duty bound will pray Roger Woollford The Petition afd being Read and heard and the Premises Considered the Said Roger Woollford ^would^ not accept of the Estate of the afd Levin Woolford dec.d that does belong to Martha and Mary Woollford his orphans upon Noe Other terms than that their Estate personall in Negro's &c should not be sold and that their Slaves should be preserved in the Best Manner for the Use of the Orphans afd &c Whereupon the Justices of Somersett in Court Sitting makes an Offer of the Estate of Levin Woolford afd Dec.d that does Belong to the afd orphans ^to severall persons^ then present in the Same Court to be Gaurdian to the orphans and their Estates afd on the first terms provided by act of assembly as in Such Case appears by the Seven Paragraph of the Same act but No Person would accept of the same or undertake as Guardian's for the Same orphans and their Estates on those terms as is by Law Provided &c Whereupon the Same Justices of the Court afd did than Committ the Estate Personall of the Said Orphans unto the Care of the afd Roger Woolford who is appointed by the Same Court Guardian or trustee of the Same on the terms afd that he offered to accept thereof as is mentioned in the Same act of assembly and Incident to the Seventh Paragraph afd vizt Whereupon Its Ordered by the Court that the Said Roger Woollford give good Security to Comply with the Law in Relation to Such Guardian's or trustees &c Thereupon the Said Roger Woollford together with Levin Gale and Francis Allen his Securitys all present in Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Joyntly & and Severally to Owe and Stand Justly Indebted unto the afd Martha and Mary Woollford orphans as afd their heirs or assignes in the Sum of four hundred and Six pounds Curr.t money to be Levied upon their bodys goods or Chattells Lands or tenements Joyntly and Severally for the Use of the afd Orphans their heirs or assignes &c In Case the Said Roger Woolford do not sell and dispose or suffer to be Sold or disposed the Originall Stock of Slaves and their Increas that belong to the Orphans afd and do not in the best manner preserve them for the use of the said Orphans till they shall arrive at their full age as by Law in Such Case provided Limmitted and appointed with an intent to hinder their having their first Stock of Slaves made good to them in number, value and ability of body if ^it^ may be &c and Likewise if he doth not Comply in Every Respect with the Law touching such |
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