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ing Date the 7th Day of September, 1691, duly executed and enrolled,
and afterwards recorded in the Special Court Records, of Ann
Arundel County. W^re find that the said Elisabeth Evans, and Sarah
her Sister, who intermarried with a certain Samuel Griffith, by their
joint Petition to his Lordship's Agent, obtained a Warrant of Resur-
vey on the said Two Hundred Acres of Land, and included therein
Ninety Three Acres of Surplus, and obtained a Patent for the Quan-
tity of Two Hundred and Ninety Three Acres, called Evan's-
Purchase, bearing Date the i6th Day of September, 1720, and that a
Division of the said Land hath been made. We also find a Deed from
Elisabeth Faudrie, (who is the same Elisabeth Evans, one of the
Daughters of Lucy Evans abovementioned, ) to William Wells, of
Anne Arundel County, bearing Date the 19th of April, 1753, duly
executed, acknowleged and recorded, for One Hundred Four Acres
and an Half Acre, of her Part of the Land, being Part of the said
Two Hundred and Ninety Three Acres. Your Committee also find
a Deed from Benoni Holliday, of Anne Arundel County, to Henry
Child, the Son of Henry Child, junr. bearing Date the 29th of
August, 1730, duly acknowleged and recorded, for Fifty Acres of
Land, Part of a Tract called Trent, also lying in Anne Arundel
County; which said Benoni was Heir at Law to his Father William
Holliday, who was in Possession of the said Fifty Acres of Land,
upwards of Forty Years, and those who claimed under him were
always since, in quiet Possession thereof. We find a Deed, from the
said Henry Child, to William Wells the Petitioner, for the same Fifty
Acres of Land, Part of Trent, bearing Date the 22d Day of June,
1743, duly acknowleged and recorded. We also find, that a certain
Joseph Merely had the whole Tract of Land, called Trent, containing
Four Hundred and Fifty Acres, patented to him, in the Year 1666,
but how William Holliday came by his Right to the Fifty Acres of
Land aforesaid, Part of Trent, does not appear to your Committee.
And, we likewise find, upon Enquiry into the Value of the said sev-
eral Lands, that the One Hundred and Four Acres of Land and an
Half Acre, Part of Evans's-Purchase, as aforementioned, and the
Fifty Acres, Part of the Land called Trent, are as commodious and of

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equal Value with the aforesaid One Hundred and Thirty Acres of
Land called Charley; all which is humbly submitted to the Considera-
tion of your Honourable House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
On reading the said Report, the House concurs therewith :
Ordered, That Leave be given to the Petitioners, to bring in a Bill
according to the Prayer of their Petition.
Mr. Key, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker, a
Bill intituled, An Act for raising a Duty of Three Halfpence Sterling
per Hogshead, on all Tobacco exported out of this Province, for

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