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Your Committee in pursuance of the Order of the House have
proceeded to examine into the Facts contained in the petition and
do humbly report That Samuel Ogle Esq.r mentioned in the said
Petition did by his last Will and Testament Dated the 11.th Day of
February 1752 and duly proved devise to his Son Benjamin Ogle
also mentioned in the said Petition who was Heir at Law of the
said Samuel Ogle and his Heirs his House and Land in Prince
Georges County as also all his Negroes and Slaves together with
his Stock of what Kind Soever and Horses (except his English
Horses and their Breed) and every Utensil or Implement belonging
to or used on his said Plantation in the said County at the Time of
his Death and after devising some Legacies did further devise all
the rest & Residue of his real and personal Estate of what Nature
or Kind Soever either in America Europe or Elsewhere after his
Debts or Legacies should be paid to his said Son Benjamin and
did by his said Will direct that the Land and Negroes so devised to
his said Son should be kept and maintained at the Expences and
Risque of his said Son and the Profits arising therefrom accounted
for to his Use and Benefit and did constitute and appoint the Peti-
tioner Benjamin Tasker Esq.r and Col.o Benjamin Tasker since de-
ceased Executors of his said Will and Guardians to his said Son And
by a Codicil to his said Will dated the 15.th Day of April 1752 and
duly proved the said Samuel Ogle Esq.r after reciting the Devise to
his said Son herein above mentioned and that he was apprehensive
the said Devise might not be so Advantageous to him by the Direc-
tions in the said will that the said Land and Negroes should be
kept and maintained at his Risque as if they should be sold Did by
the said Codicil revoke and make void the said Devise and Directions
to keep and maintain the said Land and Negroes at his said Sons
Risque and did direct that the said Negroes Horses and Stock
Plantation Implements and Utensils should be sold as conveniently
might be and the Money which should be raised thereby applied
and reckoned as part of the Residue of his Estate devised to his
said Son and that his House and Land mentioned in the said Devise
should also be sold by his Executors or the Survivor of them if
they or the Survivor of them should judge it most expedient and
advantageous for the Benefit of his said Son And the Money arising
by the Sale thereof should be also reckoned as part of the personal
Estate and placed out at Interest for the Benefit of his said Son
That the said Extors or one of them did after the Death of the said
Samuel Ogle Esq.r sell the said House and Land in Prince George's
County under the power given them by the said Will That the Lands
mentioned in the Petition are not partarly mentioned in the said
Will but that the said Samuel Ogle Esq.r died Seized of them And
that it does not appear to your Committee that any Profits have
been drawn from them since the Death of the said Samuel Ogle Esq.r
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 23
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