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266 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Successors and all Bodies Politick and Corporall and all others not
mentioned in this Act their Severall and Respective Rights.

Acts of
April, 1720,

ch. 7

An Act for the Releif of Benjamin Howard in making Good the
Survey of Howards Purchase.
Whereas it is made appear to this present Generall Assembly by
record and Sufficient Evidence Viva Voce that a Certain John
Howard late of Ann arundell County in the Year Seventeen hun-
dred and three put a Common Land Warrant for Sixteen hundred

Acres of Land duly purchased out of his Lordships Land Office into
the hands of Dutton Lane then one of his Lordships Deputy Sur-
veyors of Baltemore County, to be laid upon Six hundred and forty
Acres of Land lyeing near to the branch of Bush River upon a branch
leading into Deer Creek and that the said Dutton Lane by Virtue
of the same Warrant Surveyed for the said John Howard, accord-
ingly a parcell of Land reputed to Contain Six hundred and forty
Acres and for the beginning or first boundary of the said Survey,
the said Dutton Lane then and there marked two Chesnutts and one
Hickory and then run North Eighty Seven degrees and a half
Easterly from the said Beginning two hundred and Six perches to a
White Oak which he then marked as another bounded tree of the
said Land and from thence South by East two hundred and fifty
perches to a Red Oak which he then marked as another bounded Tree
of the said Land and thence run North Seventy three Degrees West
one hundred Perches to two white Oaks and a Spanish Oak all wch
the said Dutton Lane then marked as one other boundary of the said
Land, and thence run South Seventy Seven degrees West two hun-
dred and twelve perches to a Chestnutt tree wch he then marked as
another bounded Tree of the said land and thence run Various
Courses and distances till by a Straight line to the first beginning
it included the said Quantity of Six hundred and forty Acres,
that in a short time after the said Survey the said John Howard
made his last Will & Testament and devised the said Six hundred
and forty Acres of Land by the name of Howards Purchase to
his son Absolute Howard and died Leaving the said Absolute
Howard and his Son Benjamin Howard Infants of tender Years,
that shortly after his Decease and before the said Dutton Lane
made any return, of the Certificate of the said Survey he fled
from this Province to Carolina to avoid the prosecution of his
Creditors that the said Absolute Howard is now dead whereby
the Right of the said Six hundred and forty Acres descended to
the said Benjamin Howard, that it sufficiently appears the said
Dutton Lane was fully Satisfied his Just dues for his Services
as if they had been perfectly Compleated and that he gave out
in Speeches that he had made due return of the said Certificate,

483

but for that such Certificate appears not on Record and that it



 
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