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twenty one Acres as Also the Hogg pen Joyning thereto about two
hundred and twenty Acres And Another Tract on the North End
thereof Joyning to the said Hiccory Hills And the Land of Joshua
Marshall about One hundred and Sixty Acres. As Also my half
of two hundred and twenty Acres Called Friendship in Partnership
with John Brook on Mattawoman to her and her heirs for Ever the
which Elizabeth is since married with William Pile Also one of the
Aforesaid Petitioners And further the aforesaid Petitioners haveing
Also Set forth in their Petition that in the next Succeeding Para-
graph of the afore recited will the Deceased William Hutcheson
haveing by his said will Settled upon his Son John All his Estate
lying in North Brittain made a Provision to Barr his Said son John
from haveing Any Interest in Any of his Aforementioned Lands
whilst any of his Children to whom they are Devised were living.
The Tenour of which Paragraph follows in these words. And my
will is that if any of my three Daughters die without lawfull Issue
that the lands hereby given them or to my son William if he Die
without Issue shall be Equally Divided Among the three Surviving,
And if two dye to the Other two living And if three Dye All to the
Other And that my Son John have no Interest in Any of my Lands
in Maryland Except they all four dye without Issue I mean Such
Lands as are herein devised as by the said will Reference being
thereto had may more fully and at Large Appear And the Petitioners
likewise in their Said Petition haveing set forth that they have been
Advised that the before recited Paragraph of the deceaseds will may
be Understood to Amount to an Entaile upon All the Lands devised
as above to the Petitioners which they verily believe was never so
Intended by the deceased which they Alledge in their said Petition
may be very well gathered from the severall devises themselves to
the Petitioners being all to them and their heirs for Ever And not
Only so but it being Contrary to the Bent and Inclination of the
Deceased's Mind the Intailing of any Lands which he has frequently
Expressed in words when in Conversation with his friends And for-
asmuch as the said Gabriel Parker and Anne his wife John Abington
and Mary his wife William Hutcheson William Pile and Elizabeth
his wife have made their Several Allegations mentioned as aforesaid
Sufficiently Appear to this Generall Assembly by Undoubted Testi-
mony And that as the said Petitioners by their Said Petition have
Prayed An Act may Pass for their releif in the Premises aforesaid It
is humbly Prayed that it may be Enacted and Declared And be it
Enacted and Declared by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor
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 Gabriel Parker and Anne his wife John Abing-
ton & Mary his wife William Hutcheson William Pile and Elizabeth
his wife have and may by Vertue of this Act hold & Enjoy the Same
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