250 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts
Acts of
May, 1719,
ch. 9
p. 43i

An Act to Confirm to William Gray of Calvert County a Small
parcell of Land lyeing in the said County sold by Robert Brooke
to the said Gray now in the possession of the said Gray

Whereas William Gray of Calvert County by his humble Petition
to this Generall Assembly has set forth that a Certain Robert Brooke
of Calvert County had on or about the Seventh Day of August Anno
Domini 1714 Agreed with the said William Gray for the Sale of a
small pcell of Land Containing about forty nine Acres of Land for
the Consideration of 4900^ll Tobacco and by his bond or Writeing
Obligatory Obliged himself to make Over Assigne and Convey to
the said William Gray An Absolute Estate in fee simple thereto
According to the following bounds & Courses (Viz) Begining at
the first bounded Ceedar Post of the land Called Brook Place Manner
and runing to a bounded white Oake Standing in the line of the
af^d manner being the bounded Tree of James Duke and runing from
the said Oake to a bounded red Oake standing by the road side that
leads to M^r John Bromes thence runing to the head of a Creeke called
Dunning ford Creek to the Begining bounded red Oake of the Land
sold to Thomas Atturbury and from the said Atturbury's red Oake
to the aforesaid Cedar Post, That the af^d William Gray hath well
and faithfully paid to the said Robert in his life time the Considera-
con Money for the said Land but that the said Rob^t Dyed in some
small Time After, so that he had no Oppertunity of makeing the same
Over According to his intent and the tennour of his Obligation The
truth of all which premisses has been Suficiently made Appear to this
present Generall Assembly wherefore the said William has Suppli-
cated this Generall Assembly that an Act be made in his favour to
Confirm the land aforesaid According to the meets and bounds afore-
said to him in fee simple the heir at Law haveing Due Notice thereof
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships
Governeur and the upper and Lower houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the said William Gray his heirs and As-
signes for Ever shall [be] and is hereby Vested with a Good sure In-
defezable Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple of in and unto the

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aforesaid fourty nine Acres of Land According to the metes and
Bounds afore menconed On recording this act in the Records of
Calvert County within six months from the End of this Sessions of
Assembly anything in the Act for Quieting possessions enrolling
Conveyances and Secureing the Estates of .... or any Other Law
Statute usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding
Saveing to the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary And his suc-
cessors and all bodies Politick and Corporate and all others not men-
coned in this Act their severall and Respective Rights.