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1 Circuit Court of the United States: Charles M'Gill and Others, Complainants Vs. A.A. Browne, and Others, Respondents; April Sessions, 1827. In Equity 1832

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A. A. Browne and others, Respondents. J In Equity.
BILL-Filed 13th Nov. 1826.
To the lonourable the Judges of the Circuit Court of
the United States, in and for the Third Circuit.
EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
THIE Bill and complaint of Charles M'Gill, a citizen of the state
of Virginia, of the mayor and commonalty of the town of Win-
chester, in the state of Virginia; of Goldsmith Chandlee, Samuel
Wagner, and Samuel Brown, citizens of the state of Virginia, and
of Sargh Z. Mills, a citizen of the state of Maryland, respectfully
makes known-
That Sarah Zane, late of the city of Philadelphia, departed this
life, having first made her last will and testament, dated the
twenty-fourth day of the third month, in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and nineteen, whereby she devised and be-
queathed in manner following:
That is to say,
1, Sarah Zane, of the city of Philadelphia, single woman,
through the tender mercies of my Heavenly Father, being of
sound disposing mind and memory, and in health of body, Do
make this my last Will and Testament, in manner and form fol-
lowing, that is to say:
1st. I will and direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses
be paid as soon after my decease as is convenient.
2d. I devise and bequeath unto my nephew John, son of my
late brother John Zane, the income or rent of fifteen acres of
meadow lands, with the barn thereon, in the township of Moya-
mensing, in the county of Philadelphia, situate on the eist side of
the road leading from the said city to Greenwich Point or ferry,
adjoining land belonging to the Hamilton Estate. The above said
landorun'ning to low water mark and Delaware river. Also, two-
thirds my part of a house in Biddle's Alley, between Second and
Third, near High street, Philadelphia. Also, two-thirds of a
ground rent of six pounds per annum, on Mulberry, between Se-
venth and Eighth streets, Philadelphia, at present occupied by
Joseph Ely; with the yearly benefits arising from the cultivation
of six hundred acres of land, situate and bounded by Grove creek,
near Wheeling, in the state of Virginia-part of the same tract
belonging to my honoured father near forty years. All the above
described property I give to my nephew John Zane, in trust,
with the injunction of ke2ping the buildings aforesaid and land
in best order, out of rents issuing therefrom; the residue of said

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