Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0628-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hext Prioleau and Margaret his wife v. Robert Williams, Jr.
    Edward Rutledge for plaintiff.
   March 22, 1779. Bill addressed to Henry Laurens, Vice President, and members of Privy Council, sets out will of John Chapman by which plaintiff Margaret was bequeathed £1000, in trust for her to defendant, her father. Bill claims that Robert William Powell, executor of the will, had paid the £1000 to defendant for her, that she has married, and according to terms of the trust, is entitled to the £1000.

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October 30, 1779. Petition of Lady Mary Middleton, wife of Henry Middleton, relict of Thomas Drayton and mother of Thomas Drayton, a minor, shows that Thomas Drayton, minor, is without a guardian, John Drayton having died; and Thomas being absent from the state, her petition to this court is necessary for a guardian to be appointed; and the petitioner therefore seeks that a guardian be appointed.

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