Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0571-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ebenezer Roche, eldest son of Francis Roche v. Ebenezer Simmons, executor of Francis Roche, and Francis, Thomas, Patrick, Mary and Ann Roche, and Charles Motte for his wife Elizabeth, Children of Francis Roche 
    
    James Parsons for plaintiff.
    John Rutledge for defendants.
    
      
       This is another family suit. Francis Roche in 1746 had married Anne Simmons (Ibid., p. 184).
    
   November 20, 1769. Bill seeks to have real property of late Francis Roche divided into seven shares, and personal estate divided so as to equalize those shares among his seven children. Also, copy of Francis Roche’s will, and estimate of value of his real estate, and a writ of partition from court of common pleas.

December 6, 1769. Answer admits all claims except that of combination against plaintiff; asks that division suggested in bill be adopted and made part of decree.

(Bundle 1767-1770)]