700 Appendix.

Calvert
Papers
No. 1139
February 12
1748/9

1713 both by your Grandfather & M^r Carroll, & tho' in Law no
private Person can make a Deed directly to his wife, none of us can
pretend here to tell what your Lordships Power may be, or how it
may be judged at home in favour of Creditors, however I hope an
equal if not superior Regard will be paid to Marriage Articles &
that your Grandfather will be thought to have had no Right to have
let any Land but upon the common Conditions of Plantation. Leases
made in England against the Tenor of Marriage Articles are void
in Law, but it may be supposed that they will urge the contrary here,
& that all the Equity that your Lordship can require is their payment
of Rent at the Rate that Land was let for at the time of the Patent,
& Equity taking in a number of Considerations it is almost impossi-
ble to know certainly how things may go but upon the main it is
certainly necessary, as I said before, for your Lordship to proceed
with the utmost Dispatch that no Advantage may be taken of your
long silence & acquiescence in the Land being out of your Possession.
Young M^r Tasker is in such an indifferent state of health that he
proposes to set out in a short time for England, by whom I suppose
his Father will give your Lordship a full acc^t of this matter, if he
does not do it by this opportunity, therefore I shall trouble your
Lordship no further at present

Black Book
No. 9

Letter No. 52
October 19,
1749

[Geo. Dent and John Hepburn to Gov Ogle]
May it Please Your Excellency We think it our Duty to Informe
you that att Ann Arundel County Assizes a Certaine Charles Elliot
Servant to Nathaniel Folson was before us Convicted of horse Steal-
ing, and accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death, for the Offence
Upon the best Information we can get, he has had Two Masters
with the first of which he behav'd well for some time and then took
to running away and other ill Practices.
Upon which his master (who is said to bear a good Character)
sold him to Folson a person of an ill Character and Severe from
whom Elliot frequently Runaway and behaved very ill And at length
being runaway from his Master Stole the horse for which he is now
Convict in order to make his Escape
We have Only to say in the behalfe of the Criminal That he is a
young person not Exceeding Twenty one years (as we are Inform'd)
and may in all Probability if his life is Spared take new and better
Courses, And are in hopes Y^r Excellency on Consideration of his
Tender years and Severity of his late Master will Extend your
wonted Clemency towards him.

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[Lord Baltimore To the Honourable the Commons of Great
Britain in Parliament Assembled.]
The Humble Petition of Charles Lord Baltimore in the Kingdom
of Ireland absolute Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maryland
in America.