Petition for Edmund & Dorothea Winston

Winston & wife & others; against Christopher Hunt executor of Fayette Henry, dec'd. [deceased], Thomas T Scott and . The amended bill of the plaintiffs filed by leave of the Court - The plaintiff Edmund Winston and Dorothea his wife, beg leave to represent to the court that Fayette Henry the Defendants Testator in his lifetime acted as the agent of the plaintiff Dorothea in the management of her interest in the estate of her late husband Patrick Henry esquire, that he became considerably indebted to her in that capacity as well as for monies loaned him by her, that she presumes the 1) Defendant Christopher Hunt is [possessed] of the Books and Amounts of [this] Testator, by which the amount of the debt may be [apertained/ascertained] which Books and amounts she prays he may be required to produce - before the [Commissioners] of the Court - The plaintiff Alexander Scott and Sarah [B] his wife beg leave also to represent to the Court that Fayette Henry died indebted to the plaintiff Sarah [upon] a promissory note in the sum of [left blank] [Their] plaintiffs pray that it may please the Court to decree in the first place the payment of these [testator/respective] Debt out of the estate of the Testator, and that the balance of the estate may be distributed agreeably to the will of the Testator and the prayer of their [original] bill. and will pray [etc ]
Leigh and Anthony
for
plaintiff

Winston & al vs Henry executors & al

Amended bill

20 June 1817