638 Appendix.

Calvert
Papers
No. 520
[1754]

In the year 1716 in a Suit of Chancery in Maryland in w.^ch
Maurice Burchfield Esq.^r Surveyor General of the Southern District
of Amercia as Agent and attorney for the Crown was Complainant,
and Joseph Brown Son & heir of the said Peregrine Brown de-
fendant, it was decreed that the said tract of Land called Turkey
point (supposed to be the property of the said Peregrine Brown)
should be sold at publick Vendue, towards satisfying and paying
his Majestys debt due from Peregrine Brown, and that the purchaser
should be vested with an Estate in Fee / vid Records in Chanc Lib.^r
Pl. fol. 317. as by a Copy thereof under the hand of the Register
of the Court of Chancery of Maryland may appear
Turkey Point in Pursuance of the said decree and assignment
was put up at publick vendue in Annapolis by the said Burchfield
and Brown and purchased by Richard Bennett Esq.^r together with
some negroes & Stock for £550.. Sterling as by the Certificate under
the hand of the Auctioneer hereunto annexed may appear.
In 1718 before Richard Bennet payed the purchase money he
discovered the Burchfield & Brown had not authority in Right of the
Crown to Convey a legal title to him in a more than a moiety of
the Land called Turkey Point by reason of the Crowns not having
taken the proper steps to Extend the moiety of Turkey point Sup-
posed to belong to the said Robinson, but upon the said Burchfield &
Browns passing a writing under their hands to the said Richard
Bennett to return him £ 250 Stel. out of the purchase money in Case
a good title was not made to the said Richard Bennett of the
Land called Turkey point, he paid the purchase money as by a true
Copy of the said writing proved by the oath of Michael Macnemara
Esq.^r and hereunt annexed may more fully appear
The Commissioners of his Majestys Customs in the year 1719
wrote a Letter to his Excellency John Hart Esq.^r then Governor
of Maryland acquainting him of Burchfields & Browns Engage-
ments to M.^r Bennett and that they had promised on behalf of the
Crown to Indemnifie Burchfield & Brown against their said En-
gagem.^t and that Serjeant Pengelly's Opinion was that a Good title
may be made to M.^r Bennett by an Act of Assembly of Maryland and
earnestly recomended to him, to be a means of obtaining such an
Act, as by a true copy of the said Letter proved to be so by the
Oath of Mich.^l Macnemara Esq.^r hereunt annexed may appear

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In 1720 an Act of Assembly passed to vest Richard Bennet Esq.^r
w.^th an Estate in Fee in the said Land called Turkey Point as fully
as if the usual Course of Law had been used and taken to Charge
the Estate of the said Robinson w.^th the money due to the said
Brown to the Crown and in the said Act it is expressly say'd " that
it Evidently appear'd to the then General Assembly that the said
Robinson dyed considerably indebted to the said Brown " as by the
Said Act of Assembly under the Seal of the Provincial Court here-
unto Annexed may appear