William Webb Estate of Kent Co.----- MD Chancery 3-Preface:768 (11925) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Judith Webb Lockard William Webb Estate- December 5, 1832 Kent Co., Maryland : September 10, 1834 to 1836 To the Honorable Theodorick Bland, Chancellor of Maryland, The bill of complaint of Jacob H. Webb of New Castle County in the State of Delaware and of John Curlott and Frances Curlott his wife of Queen Annes County in the State of Maryland, humbly "............" that a certain William Webb, late of Kent County, deceased, was in his lifetime seized and aforesaid of certain real estate in Kent County aforesaid being parts of Tracts or Parcels of land called "Bordley's Gift", "Newtown Resurveyed", and "Outrange" or by what so ever names it may be called, certainly between one hundred and fifty and two hundred acres, more or less; that he departed this life "Intestate" leaving your Orators Jacob H. Webb and the said Francis Curlott the wife of the said John Curlott, William Webb, Mary Webb, Priscilla Hollett the wife of Solomon Hollett, Samuel Webb and Elizabeth Webb, his only children and Heirs at law to whom the said lands have and who are said and proposed thereof, descended your Orators further note that the said lands are incapable of division so as to be of advantage to the parties nor can the same be sold or divided on account of minority of the said Samuel Webb and Elizabeth Webb who are under the age of twenty one years and you honors are remediless in the premises except by the aid and interposition of this court, to the end therefore that the said William Webb, Mary Webb, Solomon Hollett and Priscilla Hollett, Samuel Webb and Elizabeth Webb may be compelled to answer the premises may it please your Honor to grant to your Orators the State of Maryland Writ of Subpeona to Kent County for the said William Webb, Mary Webb, Solomon Hollett and Priscilla Hollett and to Queen Anne's County for the said Samuel Webb and Elizabeth Webb commanding the saidWilliam Webb, Mary Webb, Solomon Hollett and Priscilla Hollett, his wife, Samuel Webb and Elizabeth Webb to appear and answer the premises and that your Orators may have a Decree for a Sale or Division of the said land and such other and further relief as the nature of the case and good conscience require VC George Vickers- solicitor for complaintant Filed 12th Sept. 1834 William Webb Estate Kent County, Maryland To Wit. Be it remembered that on this 12th day of January 1836, before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the State of Maryland in and for this county aforesaid, personally appears Jacob H. Webb who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangly of Almighty God, "deposith" and sayth that the notice mentioned in the foregiving affidavit of Joseph Woodall, being a note of hand of his father William Webb to John Eaton of Delaware, was paid by him the said Jacob H. Webb, at the request of his said father William Webb, the principal being in the amount five dollars, and the interest sixty-five cents, the said payment having been made by him four years and two months ago, To Wit, in month of November Eighteen Hundred & thirty one, and that the said NOTE was duly passed by the Orphans Court of Kent County sometime in the year 1834, as being justly due to thius deponent that the said note was given to the said Joseph Woodall for the purpose of being handed to George Vickers,Esq. As stated in the Deposition of said Woodall & that this deponent hath since no knowledge of the said note, neither has he received either directly or indirectly any payment part parcial security or satisfaction for the same, but that the Estate of William Webb, deceased. "State" stands justly indebted to him this deponent for the principal and interest of said note as per account hereunto annexed- the said Note having been paid by him brefore the death of his father Wm. Webb at his request & to the best of his knowledge & belief lost' as aforesaid by Jos. Woodall his having made diligent search for its truly not being able to trace or find the same. Sworn before W Matthews