490 Appendix to Council Proceedings 1681-85/6.

Calvert
Papers.

[Petition of Edmund Dwyer.]

At A Council held at the City of Saint Marys the 21^st day
of May Anno Domini 1686 Present

Col^o Henry Darnall
the honble Col^o William Digges
Major Nicholas Sewall

To the Honourable Council for Lands especially appointed
The humble petition of Edmund Dwyer of Cecil County
Humbly Sheweth.
That your Petitioner by Virtue of a Warrant for two thou-
sand Acres granted him by his Lordship bearing date the 8^th
day of September 1683 directed to Col^o George Talbott to lay
out the said Quantity of Acres expressed in the same Warrant
in some part of Christine Creek in Cecil County, your Peti-
tioner had returned in his name into the Land Office by Col^o
Talbott aforesaid two different Certificates of Land laid out by
Virtue of the aforenamed Warrant the One Containing A
Tract of 1593 Acres called Kappah, and the other 575 Acres
called Crossayle, both which being added together surmount
the number of 2000 Acres mentioned in the Warrant afore-
said therefore your Petitioner is hindered from suing forth his
Patent by Reason of the said Mistake, your Petitioner being
altogether a Stranger thereunto until now notwithstanding he
humbly craves that your Honours will be pleased to order
that pattents may issue to him and his Heirs for the aforesaid
two Tracts and he is ready to Comply with his Lordships con-
ditions of plantation for the overplus, according to the same
Conditions under which his said Warrant was granted
And your Petitioner will ever pray

The Petitioner paying or securing to be paid to his Lord-
ship for 168 Acres of Land, the Surplusage of his Warrant
according to his Lordships Conditions of plantation now in
force, Ordered that pattents for both the said Tracts in the
petition mentioned be Granted him as prayed

[Petition of George Talbott]

To the Honourable his Lordships Councill for Lands
Honoured Sirs.
I humbly remonstrate to your Honours that in the beginning
of the year 1684 I having then A Commission to dispose of
Seats of Land in his Lordships northern manners was requested
by Thomas Walmsley since deceased for a Lease for 200