Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   303





     Which being Read and heard It is the Judgm.t of the Court here Liber C D
    this day to witt the Eigth day of Octob.r in the fourth year of the
    Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Domini one one
    thousand Six hundred Seventy nine that the parcell of land in the
    aforegoing Inquisition mentioned is Escheated unto his Lordship
    for want of heir        .   .
                           Nic:   Painter Cl Cur Prov.a is
             To the Honble the Lord Proprietary
     The humble Petition of Nicholas Buttram Sheweth
     That John Ascombe of Calvert County being by Patent under the
    Great Seale of this Province bearing date the fifth day of August
    1658 Granted by the late Lord Prop.ry of noble memory deceased
    Lawfully Seized to him and his heirs of and in four hundred acres p..247
                                                (fol. 304)
    of Land in Putuxent River the Buttings & boundings whereof
    appear by the Said Patent hereunto annexed did by ass.t Endorsed
    upon the Said Patent according to the manner then used amongst
    the Inhabitants of this Province Subscribed by the Said Jphn As
    combe & Winifred his wife assign Convey and make over the Said
    four hundred acres of Land and all their Right therein unto Richd
    Wadsworth Andrew Henderson and David Read To hold to them
    and their heirs for Ever, Whereby the Said Wadsworth Hinderson
    and Read became Seized thereof to them and their heirs in Joynt
    Tennancy undivided Afterwards the 20.th of September 1664 the
    Said Wadsworth & Susan his wife at a Court there held for Calvert
    County did Release & make over his third part of the Said four
    hundred acres of Land unto the Said Two Joynt Tennants viz.t
    Hinderson and Read, as by a Copy of the Record annexed appeareth
    after that the Said David Read dyed whereby Andrew Hinderson
    in Right of Survivorship was possessed of the Said whole four
    hundred acres to him & his heirs for Ever, The -4th of Aprill 1672
    Hinderson made his will in writeing and did thereby will in these
    words, That my welbeloved Wife Elizabeth Hinderson be my Ex.rx
    to my whole Estate Land & all nothing Excepted, Item I will that all
    my Estate moveable & Imoveable to my welbeloved wife onely one
    hundred acres of Land and     Cowes I give and bequeath
    unto my wifes Son Roger    alive and that he Come into
    this Country, if not then     also to my wife I bequeath it]
    as by the Copy of theannexed may appear The Said
    Hinderson thereupon dyed Pet.r Nicho: Buttram marryed
    the Said Elizabeth relict of the Said Hinderson   Said Elizabeth
    after the Same marthe fourth of January 1676 made
    her Will in writeing & didgive and bequeath all the
    Temporall Estate w.ch her Said [husiband Hinderson bequeathed
    her by his will Land &accepted unto yo.r
    pet.T But if it Should happenRoger Should be