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250 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. Liber CD RR Subpas Robert Atchison Son & heir of Vincent At chinson & Hannah his wife deced & Samuell Tovey Adm.r of all & Singular y.e Goods Chattells Rights & Credits of the s.d Vincent Atchinson deed ats John Baker dat 28.th June returnable Imediately Maryland ss. Jn.o Halfhead Inquisition An Inquisition Indented taken this present munday being the Twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Seventy & Eight at the house of Henry Elliott in S.t Marys County before us Robert Carvile & Walter Hall Gent by Virtue of a Commission iss.d out of his Lopps high Court of Chancery in the nature of a Mandamus to us directed Whereby we are Commanded by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Lawfull men of the County afores.d by whom the truth of the matter may be the better known & Enquired of that we diligently Enquire what Lands John Halfhead late of S.t Marys County af.d deceased dyed Seized of at the time of his Death as of ffee in the County of S.t Marys & of what manno.r & under what Rents and Services and how much those Lands & Tenem.ts are (fol. 244) of value in the year in all issues & at what time the s.d John Half- head dyed & who is his next heir & what age the heir is and who those Lands & Tenem.ts from the time of the Death of the John Half head hath or doth Occupy & the issues & profits hath or doth receive & by what Title & how & in what manner & who hath paid the Rent for the same & to whom by the Oaths of Elias Beach, Thomas Griffen, Jno Roberts Richard Chillman, Edward Horne Thomas Potter, Robert Large Morgan Jones, John Askin Daniell Clocker, Owen Gwyther & Abraham Read who being duely Sworn upon the holy Evangelists do upon their Oaths Say as followeth That it appeareth to the Juro.rs af.d by a Patent under the Great Seal of this Province bearing date the twelfth day of Septembr. in the year of our Lord 1653 to them produced that W.m Howley Escq haveing Right to Six thousand acres of Land & upwards in the S.d province by an Order of the Provinciall Court of the four & Twen tieth of march 1652) [1652/3] In Consideration thereof his Ldp did by the S.d Patent Grant unto the S.d William Howley all that tract of Land on the west Side Chesepeake hay near unto a Creek Called St Jerom's Creek Beginning on the west Side the Said Creek at a marked Chesnut Tree Standing near a marsh & Swamp Called S.t Davids Swamp & Running west from the s d Chesnutt for the Length of Eighty pches unto a marked oake in a Valley bounding on the west with a line drawn South from the s.d Oake for the Length of Eight hundred fifty and five perches unto a fresh Runn & with a line drawn North & by west unto the Land of Stanhope Roberts Called Drappers Neck on the north with the Said Land on the East with the sd bay from Drappers neck unto the mouth of S.t |
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