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Part of nine hundred and twenty four Acres of Land lying in the
same County made up of the following Tracts viz Mansfield contain-
ing five hundred and thirty Acres, the Farm containing two hundred
and twenty seven Acres and three Quarters of an Acre Stoke con-
taining forty four Acres and an half Acre and Collins's Comfort
containing one hundred and twenty one Acres and three Quarters of
an Acre; otherwise collectively called Errickson's Hazard whereof
the said Mary Smith died seised and possessed; And that the said
Martha intermarried with a certain Samuel Roundell since gone
and now residing beyond Sea that the said Moiety of Land consisted
of Upland and about two hundred and twenty one Acres of Marsh
or Swampy Land that the Upland had been already divided by
Consent by Persons appointed for that Purpose but that the same
Division could not be perfected nor Deeds properly executed by
reason of the Absence and for Want of the Concurrence of said
Samuel Roundell All which Tracts appearing to this General As-
sembly to be true Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honorable
the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his
Governor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the said Martha Roundell Sarah Cox
Henry Brooke and Mary his Wife and Benjamin Skinner and Hen-
rietta his Wife shall and may proceed to Compleat the Division of
said Lands either by mutual Consent and Agreement between them-
selves or by calling into their Assistance three or more indifferent
Persons to be nominated by them And after such Division made the
said Martha Roundell is hereby enabled to perfect the same by Deed
or Deeds of Partition to be by her executed acknowledged and re-
corded in the same Manner as if she were sole which same Deed or
Deeds when executed shall be good and available to vest the Parties
with a separate Estate in said Land according to the Lines and
Boundaries agreed upon the Coverture of the said Martha or any
Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Liber R. G.
1773

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov. 30.th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho

S Sides

On Behalf of the right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Robt Eden.

The great Seal

in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov 30th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

No. 5 An Act directing the Sale of the Lands of John Stone Hawkins
deceased for the Payment of his Debts.

Whereas George Fraser Hawkins surviving Executor of the last
Will and Testament of the said John Stone Hawkins hath by his
Petition set forth that the said John Stone Hawkins died consider-
ably indebted by Specialties and other ways That the said John


 

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