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298 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. Liber C D and further we the Said Jurors Say that the sd one thousand acres (p. 243 fol. 297) of Land hath been Occupied and possessed by the Said John Douglas by virtue of the aforesaid Grant as Executor of Bridgett Heard for the use of the Legattees menconed in the will of the Bridgett Heard & that the Said John Douglas hath Received the profits & issues thereof untill about November last past, and hath paid his Lordships Rents for the Said one thousand acres of Land untill that time and Since, thence and now the Said one thousand acres of Land is in the possession of the Hon.ble Coll.o Benjamin Rozer, But by what means we the Jurors aforesaid are altogether Ignorant And further we the Said Jurors Say that John Douglas Jun.r the Son of the af.d John Douglas deceased is the Sole Surviveing Legatee of the S.d Bridgett Heard according to the best information we can gett, therefore we the Said Jurors do find that the Said John Douglas is the true and Lawfull heir to the Said one thousand acres of Land no other Legattee appearing to us to be Liveing and that the Said John Douglas is fifteen years of age, And We the Jurors afores.d (fol. 298) further Say that we find not William Heard afores.d possessed within his life any more Lands, In Testimony whereof as well the Com mission.rs as the Jurors as aforesaid to these prsent Indentures have Set their hands and Seals the day and year first above Written William [sic] Adames (sealed) Ignatius Causeene sealed Henry Bonner sealed Thomas Craxtonsealed Willm Hinsey sealed Arthur Turner sealed John Harvey sealed Edw.d Dennis sealed Thomas Gibson sealed Thos Wakefield sealed Robert Inglesby sealed George Newman sealed William Ward sealed Joseph Bullett sealed Which being Read and heard It is Ordered by the Court here this day (to witt) the Eigth day of Octob.r in the fourth year of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Anncxp Domini one thousand Six hundred Seventy nine, That a melius Inquirendum issue better to Enquire concerning the Land in the aforegoing Inquisition menconed Nicho: Painter Cl Cur Provincialis James Lindsey Inquisition of Land Called Green Spring An Inquisition taken before us Henry Adams and Ignatius Causeen of Charles County in the Province of Maryland Gent at the house of m.r William Chandler at the head of Portobacco Creek this Twenty Sixth day of June Anno Domini 1679 By virtue of a Commission in the nature of a writt of mandamus to us directed bearing date the fifteenth day of march Anno 1678 and to this |
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