Petition, DE, Sussex, Hercules Shepard, 1682

HERCULES SHEPARD, petitioner

The petitioner set forth in his petition that Captain JOHN AVERY, deceased, did
before the petitioner was joined in marriage with MARY [AVERY SHEPARD] the wife of
the petitioner and daughter of the said Captain JOHN AVERY, that he would give unto
your petitioner with his daughter a certain parcel or tract of land which was late
in the occupation of THOMAS DAVIDS together with the plantation house and premises
thereunto belonging, which said land lies between the land of JOHN DEPREE and the
land that the Widow AVERY now that lives upon and that the said JOHN AVERY did
after the said marriage was solemnized give your petitioner possession of the said
land and premises, and that he did declare the same when he lay app on his deathbed
and proved the same by the testimony of several witnesses, the court taking the
same into their consideration, and several of the members of the Court having
themselves heard the said JOHN AVERY say that his daughter MARY should have the set
land that Court therefore past their judgment that the land do properly belong unto
the petitioner and to his heirs and assigns forever.

[HERCULES SHEPHARD]
[HERCULES SHEPHERD]
[HERCULES SHEPERD]




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