434 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 17/0.

Liber R. G.
1770

Farmers and James Coursey House joiner all of Queen Anns
County and Thomas Coursey John Coursey and Henry Coursey
Mariners and Daniel Kellum of Talbot County Planter by their
humble Petition to this General Assembly in their last Session did
Set forth that Col.^o Vincent Lowe of Talbot County in this Province
on or about the fourteenth Day of December Anno Dom. One
thousand Six hundred and ninety one made his Testament in writing
and therein did Devise unto James Murphy and Michael Turbutt his
Executors to be sold for the Payment of his Just Debts the follow-

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ing Lands Viz^t Two thousand Acres of Land in Two Patents the
one called Winfield the other oakenthorpe lying in Talbot County
in the Branches of Tuckahoe and one other tract of Land Lying in
Cecil County called Lady's Delight and two thousand Seven hundred
Acres near Adjoining to the afd Ladys Delight called Timber Ridge
in Cecil County aforesaid One thousand Acres of Land lying in
Chester near Edward Elliots Land called Lowes Desire Seventeen
hundred Acres called the Adventure lying in Chester aforesaid five
hundred acres of Land called the Beginning five hundred Acres of
Land called Chesterfield in Chester both Tracts one Thousand Acres
of Land called Thurston Neighbour lying in Baltimore County which
one Thousand Acres called Thurston Neighbour the said Vincent
Lowe did by his Will Declare to have sold to Jacob Jenifer but if
the said Jacob did not comply with his Obligation then to be disposed
of as the foregoing tracts of Land and one Thousand Acres of Land
lying in Dorset County called Lowes Purchase conditionally sold or
Bargained for to Edward Cook That by a Codicil to the said Will
the said Vincent Lowe did desire his said Executors to expose his
said Lands mentioned in his said Will to sale and When sold to pay
his Just Debts out of the Produce of the same and when they had
so payd his just Debts that then they should give his Wife Elizabeth
Lowe a just account of their Proceeding and also the Remainder
of what his said Lands should Produce after paying his said Debts
to be payd to his said Wife her heirs and Assigns for them and their
Proper Use and Behoof forever That Elizabeth the Widow Inter-
marryed with Col.^l William Coursey of Queen Ann's County who
Obtained an Act of Assembly setting forth that the said Exors were
both Dead without having Disposed of the said Lands tho they had
sold and bargained for some of the said Tracts but had not perfectly
confirmed their sales and impowering them the said William and
Elizabeth and the Survivor of them to bargain sell dispose of and
confirm the said Lands in as full and ample manner as the said
Executors cou'd or might have done by virtue of the said Will
That the said William Coursey and Elizabeth his wife did sell and
convey several tracts of the aforesaid Lands That Elizabeth the wife
Survived and made her Testament in writing wherein after Several
Devises and Bequests is the following Viz.^t After my funeral