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Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. 253 Which being Read & heard it is the oppinion of the Court here Liber C D this day to wit the 10.th day of march in the fourth year of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &a Annoq Dom 1678 that the aforemencon'd Land & prmisses are Escheated unto his Lordship f or want of heirs, To be holden of his Lopp & his heirs and others the Chief Lords of the ffee of the prmisses under the Rents heretofore due and accustomed Nich: Painter Ctk Cur Prov.ll Maryland ss. Warren John Inquisition (fol. 247) An Inquisition taken upon the nineteenth day of July in the year of the Dominion of Charles absolute Lord & Proprietary of The Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c Annoq Domini 1678 At the house of John Warren Scituate near Brittons bay in the County of S.t Marys in y.e Province of Maryland by virtue of a Commission in the nature of a Mandamus issued out of his Lordship's high Court of Chan.ry to us Clement Hall & Richard Gardner Gent directed, by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Lawfull men of the Said County of S.t Maryes by whom the truth of the matter may the better be known & Enquired of to diligently En quire who is the Right owner of a parcell of Land Containing four p. 206 (fol. 247) hundred & fifty acres Lying in Brittons Bay in S.t Marys County aforesaid now in the possession of John Warren & by what Title how & in what manner the sd John Warren hath & doth hold & Enjoy the Same what these Lands & Tenements are of value by the year in all issues who hath paid the Rent for the Same & to whom & who is heir to the Same We do therefore by the Oaths of Abraham Combe, John Hearde William Cole, John Bayly Sen.r William Langworth Robert Cole John Nevitt, Thomas Hockley, John ifossey Michael Ryley Ignatius Warren and John Bayley Jun.r who being all duely Sworn Say as followeth That the Right Honble the Lord Propry of the S.d Province did by his Patent under the Great Seale of the S.d province bearing date the fifth day of June in the Year of our Lord 1649 Give Grant and Enfeoff unto John Shercliff his heirs & Assigns all that parcell of Land Scituate Lying and being in the New town, Bounded on the East with the Land formerly Granted Richard Hills and a Creek Called Pisamon Creek on the South with Potomock River on the west with a Creek Called Broad Creek & on the north with the Land formerly Granted unto John Nunne now in the possession of the s.d John Shercliff Containing & Laid out for one hundred acres more or Less & all woods Quarry mines Royall mines Excepted, Waters ffishing ffishing places and all other profits and Commodities in & upon the Same Land belonging To have and to hold the Same Land & premisses unto him the said John Shercliff his heirs and assigns for Ever To be holden of the manno.r of New Town in free and Common Soccage by ffealty only for all Services |
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