Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.   159





      The Said Jurors do upon their Oaths further find that the Said Liber C D
    John Little dyed Seized of Seven acres of Land Lying on the East
    side of Putuxent River on Hunting Creek adjoyning to the Land
    of Richd ifreeman the Land of the Said Little & the Land of Griffith
    George & that the Same is held of ye mannor of Calvert und.r y.e
    yearly Rent of two pence Sterling
      They do Likewise find that the Said John Little dyed Seized of
    another pcell of Land Called Overtown Lying on the East Side of
    Putuxent River near ye head of Hunting Creek Beginning at a
    marked white oake by a path Called the Cli fts path Containing two
    hundred & fifty acres under the Rent of five Shillings Sterling but
    of what manno.T the Same is held they cannot find, nor can they Say
    what the Same is worth being not manured or planted as by a Copy
    of the Certif.ts of the S.d Severall pcells of Land to us now pro
    duced under the hands of m.r John Blomfield Cike of y.e Secretary's
    office may more at Large appear
      And do also upon their Oaths further Say that the S.d Jn.° Little
    dyed Seized & possessed as af.d without any heirs to whom the Lands
    might or could descend only they Say that the S.d John Little did
    in his life time make his Last will & Testam.t in writeing & thereof
    made his wife mary Executrix & amongst other things devised to
    her y.e Said mary his whole Estate as moveable as imoveable freely
    to be at her own disposeing after his decease only he did Enjoyn her
    not to Sell any p.t or pcell of the Land was then his to any pson
    or psons as Long as She lived on penalty of forfeiting the Remainder
    unto the Lord Proprietary And that by virtue of the Said Will the
    Said mary Entered into & took possession of the premisses and
    afterwards Intermarried with one Joseph Tilly who in her Right p. 134
    hath held & kept the possession of the premisses & Received the 168)
    Rents issues and profits thereof till the month of ffebruary last past
    at which time the Said mary dyed and the Said Joseph Since her
    Death held the Said Land and premisses but by what Right or Title
    they know not In Testimony whereof as well the Said Commission
    ers as the Jurors afores.d have hereunto Set their hands and Seals
    the day and year first above written Ro: Carvile (seal)
                                 Tobias Norton (seal)
    Charles Boteler  (seal)                 Robert Rider   (seal)
  his mark                    the mark of
    Sam.ll S G Goosey     (seal) Griffith George     (seal)
    ffrancis Street         (seal) his mark
        the mark of        Jn.° Leach H          (seal)
    Thomas Bumpass .. . (seal) his mark
   Will House         (seal) W.m Kidd his mark.. (seal)
           his mark Timothy Gunton       (seal)
   Tho Edwards E      (seal) Tho: Bancks          (seal)