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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
November 1
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ished; we intreat your Excellency, that you would be pleased to direct
the Attorney General, to prosecute the said Muir for the Extortion
aforesaid, whereby others may be deterred, for the Future, from com-
mitting the like evil Practices.
Was read and assented to, and signed, on Behalf of the House,
by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Major Barnes and Mr. Tilghman, do acquaint his
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Excellency the Governor, that this House hath prepared an Address
to him, and desires to know when, and where, he will please to
receive it: They return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, that the Gov-
ernor signified he would be ready to receive the Address, at Eleven
of the Clock, in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Smallwood, and Four more, do present the
Address to his Excellency.
Capt. Gassaway, from the Committee appointed to enquire into
the Facts contained in William Wells and Rebecca his Wife, their
Petition, delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report.
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the Lower House of
Assembly, to enquire into the Truth of the Facts set forth in
the Petition of William Wells, and Rebecca his Wife.
October 31, 1753.
Your Committee find, That William Marshall, of Prince George's
County, by his last Will and Testament, in Writing, bearing Date
the 23d of April 1734, did, amongst other Things therein contained,
devise unto his two Daughters, Sarah and Rebecca Marshall, and the
Heirs of their Body lawfully begotten, all that Tract of Land called
Charley, except One Hundred Acres to his Son Thomas Marshall,
and in Default of such Heirs of them, or either of them, then to his
Son Thomas, and his Heirs for ever; whereby the said Rebecca
Marshall, now Wife of the Petitioner William Wells, hath Right to
One Hundred and Thirty Acres, Part of the said Tract of Land called
Charley.
We find a Deed from James Maxwell, Son and Heir of James
Maxwell of Baltimore County, to Lucy Evans, Executrix of Lewis
Evans, of Anne Arundel County, for a Tract of Land, containing
Two Hundred Acres, lying on the West Side of Chesapeak Bay, and
on the South Side of Herring Creek, bearing Date the 19th of May,
1691, duly executed, acknowledged and enrolled, which Land was
patented to William Parker, September the 4th, 1666, as appears by
a Recital in the said Deed, and sold by him the said William Parker,
to James Maxwell. Father of the above mentioned James Maxwell,
the First Day of November, 1667, as also appears by a Recital in
the said Deed.
We also find a Deed of Gift, from Lucy Evans, to her two
Daughters, Elisabeth and Sarah Evans, for the aforesaid Land, bear-
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