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confirm the said four thousand five hundred Acres to him and his
heirs and Assignes forever without giving notice thereof to the said
Thatcher or Massey or any other person who then held the said

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Land called new Munster. Whereupon Mathew Wallace the Lessee
of the said Roberts comenced an Action of Ejectment before the
Honourable his Lordships Justices of the Provinciall Court against
the said Thatcher and thereon recovered Judgement and has since
got possession of the said twelve hundred Acres whereof the said
Thatcher was possessed as Tennant in common most wrongfully and
unjustly.
And Whereas it hath been made appear to this present Generall
Assembly that the said Mathew Wallace and the Other parties con-
cerned have had sufficient Notice to appear at this Assembly to be
heard why an Act should not pass in favour of the said Richard
Thatcher for twelve hundred Acres and Peter Massey for three
hundred Acres being in the whole fifteen hundred Acres the right
of the said Sarah as one of the Devises of the said Daniel. It is
humbly prayed that it may be Enacted.
And be it Enacted by his Lordship the Lord Proprietary by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governeur and upper
and Lower houses, of this Assembly and the Authority of the same
that the said Richard Thatcher according to his purchase from the
said Peter Massey and Sarah his Wife the Devisee of the said
Daniel Toas Sen^r deceased, by force and Vertue of this Act, shall hold
and enjoy to him and his heires for ever a good Sure and indefeazable
Estate of Inheritance in Fee simple of in and to the said twelve
hundred acres of Land part of the said tract of Land called New
Munster he was formerly possessed of, by Vertue of the Devise
aforesaid from the said Peter Massey and Sarah his Wife, and
that the said Robert Roberts and his heires and all others claiming
from or under him shall be forever, utterly debarred and excluded
of all Right Claim and Interest of in or to, the said twelve hun-
dred Acres of Land and premisses, formerly possesst by the said
Richard Thatcher, as fully and Effectually to all intents and purposes
whatsoever as if the said Act formerly passed in favour of the said
Robert Roberts had never been made or passed, Any Law Statute,
Usuage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding
And be it further Enacted that the said Peter Massey and Sarah
his wife the Daughter and Devisee of the said Daniel Toas by force
and Vertue of this Act shall hold and Enjoy to them and their Heires
forever a good sure and Indefeazable Estate of Inheritance in Fee
Simple, in and to three hundred Acres part of the said tract of Land
called New Munster the remaining part of One thousand five hundred
Acres, the said Sarah's third part of the aforesaid four thousand five
hundred Acres And that the said Robert Roberts and his Heires and

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all others claiming from or under him shall be for ever utterly de-

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