416 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 5
Acts

all Intents and Purposes to Demand Challenge ask have hold and
Enjoy any Land Tenements Rents & Hereditaments to which they
might in any wise be Entituled as if they were free and Naturall born
Subjects and Leige People and alsoe that they and Every of them
shall & may be Enabled to Maintain prosecute avow Justifye and
Defend all Manner of Actions Suits pleas Plaints and other Demands
whatsoever as Liberally frankley freely fully and Securely as if they
and Every of them had been Naturall born People and Subjects of
his most Sacred Majesty King George the second any Law Statute
useage or Custom to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Acts of 1727,
ch. 26
p. 183
[Note. Is
this date in
old and new
style?]

An Act to Confirm to W^m Ford of Ann Arundell County two Tracts
of Land herein after Menconed.

Whereas the said William Ford by his humble Petⁿ to this Present
Generall Assembly has set forth that in the year Seventeen hundred
and Twenty two three he did agree with a Certain Stephen Price of
Baltemore County for the Purchase of two Tracts of Land the One
Called Cumber Ridge and the Other being part of a Tract of Land
Called Paper Ridge the first Containing One hundred and Seventy
Acres & the Latter fifty acres for the Consideration of Sixty pounds
Sterling and that he the said Stephen Price & the said William
Ford did Proceed so farr to the Perfecting the said Agreement be-
tween them made that the said William Ford Entered into bond to
the said Stephen Price in the penalty of One hundred and Twenty
pounds Sterling for the payment of the Sum agreed on as af^d and
the said Stephen Price Entered into bond in the penalty of one
hundred and twenty pounds Sterling with Condition that he the said
Stephen Price in Six Months after the date of the said bond would
make Over unto the said W^m Ford or his heirs by a Certain Con-
veyance all them parcells or Tracts of Land af^d and warr^t and
Defend the said Lands from himself and his heirs and all persons
whatsoever that may Lay Claim from by or under him the said
Stephen Price and the said William Ford hath by his said Petition
further set forth that After the Compleating the bargain as af^d the
said William Ford had possession Given him of the Lands af^d
by the said Stephen Price together with the Severall Papers relateing
to the Title of the said Lands and that the said W^m Ford hath Ever
Since been in Possession thereof and that sometime after the Execu-
tion of the said bonds the said W^m Ford paid the Consideration af^d
according to the Tenour of his bond aforesaid to the said Stephen
Price and the said W^m Ford by his said petition hath Likewise set
forth that before he Could get the said Stephen Price to Convey the
Lands af^d to the said W^m Ford According to the Tenour of the
bond af^d he the said Stephen Price dyed and that his heir at Law
is an Infant not above the Age of Eight Months old so that he the
said W^m Ford Cannot have a Title made to the said Lands untill the