ST. MARY S COUNTY LAND ENTRIES
















            SUPPLEMENTAL ENTRIES IN PROVINCIAL COURT
                           LIBER B B

       At the end of Liber BB of the provincial court proceedings are to be found
       some twenty-three pages of entries that seem to bear no relation to the court
       minutes which precede them. These entries appear to be copies of land papers
       filed for record in the local St. Mary's county court. The early records of St.
       Mary's County, since then, have been destroyed by fire. These land papers are
       penned in a hand similar to that used in certain provincial records of about ten years
       later. Despite the lack of any demonstrable connection between these records and
       the regular court minutes that occupy the earlier part of the liber, it has been
       thought proper to reproduce them in this volume, because of their evident historical
       value, referring in great part as they do to the important manor of St. Clement's,
       owned by Councillor Thomas Gerard of St. Mary's County.

         At a Court held at New Towne for the County of St Maries the Liber B B
       first day of december 1663—                 [p. 526]
       Present Philip Calvert Esqr Chancellr
       Mr John Lawson Mr Luke Gardner hrs
       Mr William Bretton Mr John Nuthall          Comis

         Command William Young and Sarah his Wife to hold Covenant
       with Thomas Bennitt for a Plantacon Orcharge & Houseing Lying
       in Brettons Bay being part of the Land Called Poplerneck Contain
       ing fifty acres Or therabouts, according to the Conveyance touching
       the sd Land                      Philip: Calvert

         And the finall Concord is that the said Thomas Bennitt shall freely
       Quietly and peaceably Injoye the sd fifty acres of Land according to
       the Conveyance bearing date the fourteenth day of October 1663
       and being the Land of the sd William Youngs to him the sd Thomas
       Bennett his Heires or assignes for Ever Walter Hall

            The 14th of October 1663
         Know all men by These presents that I William Young sould and
       made saile and doe by These presents sell make saile unto Thomas
       Bennitt of plantacon which I now Live upon for
       already in hand Received before the     delivering of these pres
       ents & I the said William Young with the consent of my wife Sarah
       Young doe hereby bind Our selves and for us Our heires Executrix
       administratrs & assignes to make Good the sale of the sd Land & Plan
       tacon with the Orchard houseings & all conveniences & priviledges