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and satisfaction to Colonel Neamiath Blackiston for an injury
by them lately done as M^r John Bean and M^r W^m Blackiston
thereunto especially appointed upon full heareing and ex-
amination into the matter shall award and adjudge.
In Confirmation of the Premises his Excellency the Gov-
ernor and likewise the King himselfe mutually signe, seale
and deliver the foregoeing Articles in the presence of their
Majestie's Councill and the Great men of the said King then
present the day and year first before mentioned.
Sigill: Sigill
L. Copley. Tom x Calvert Rx

P. R. O

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. G.

At a Council held at the City of S^t
Marys the 9th day of Iune Anno Domini 1692

Present
His Excellency the Governor

Liber K.

The honble

Col Henry Iowles
Col Nehem: Blakiston
Col George Robotham
Col Charles Hutchins

Thomas Tench Esq^e
Capt: John Addison
Capt: John Courts
Thomas Brooke Esq^e

Was then preferred and brought from the house of Bur-
gesses in Assembly sitting the following Petition and Recom-
mendation thereof from that house Viz^t

To His Excellency Lionell Copley Esq^e Captⁿ General and
Chief Governor of his Majestys Province of Maryland and
the honourable Assembly now sitting
The humble Petition of Matthias Vanderheyden of Cecil
County Humbly Sheweth
That whereas M^r Augustin Herman late of Cecil County
deceased by his last Will and Testament did by Entailment
bequeath diverse large and very considerable Tracts of Land
to his several and respective Children and their Posterities,
which said Will of Entailment was tiled and recorded in the
Commissarys Office, as by some Part of the said Record still
remaining may appear but by the fraudulent Contrivance of
some wicked Persons the said Will of Entailment is stolen
away and conveyed out of the s^d Office and likewise the most
Part of it is torn out of the Book wherein it was recorded
Now so it is that Your Petitioner having married the eldest
Daughter of the said M^r Augustin Herman, unto whom was
bequeathed a considerable Tract of Land by the said Will, as
also the Reversion of the rest of Tracts in the said Will speci-
fyed, is like to be utterly deprived thereof unless your Excel-
lency and the honourable Assembly will be pleased to grant
him some Relief as to your Prudence shall seem meet

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