Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679-80.  315





     doth Receive and by what Title and how & in what manner, By the Liber C D
     Oaths of John Broom Rich.” Smith, William Barton, Christopher
     Baynes Thomas Sedwick Thomas Arnold Edward Cowdrey, Thomas
     Jessup, Joseph Williams Thomas Edwards William Collingwood
     and Joseph Dawkins, who being by us duely Sworn Say upon their
     Oaths as followeth
      That the S.d Andrew Hinderson dyed in the month of January
     Annoq Domini 1671 Seized and possessed of two hundred acres of
     Land in his Demeasne as of ffee in the County of Calvert being
     the one half of a parcell of Land formerly Granted to John Ash
     combe Lying on the north Side of putuxent River near Hollowing
     point and that the sd Land was held by the Said Andrew Hinderson
     in fee Comon Soccage by ffealty only for all Services
     under the yearly Rent of four Shillings Sterling Said Land
     with the Houses thereupon Built in all issues and profits is worth
     Two hundred pounds of Tobacco by the year
      And the Said Jurors Say that the Said Andrew Hinderson dyed
     Seized & possessed as afores.d without any heir to whom the sd
     Land might or could descend as they know of, But do Say that the
     sd Andrew Hinderson did in his life time make his last will & Testamt
     in writeing under his hand and Seale bearing date the Twenty third
     day of January in the year of our Lord 1671 and thereof make his
     Loveing wife Elizabeth Hinderson his Ex.rx to his whole Estate
     Lands & all nothing Excepted also he did will all his Estate move
     ables and Imoveables to his well beloved wife onely one hundred
     acres of Land and two Cowes wch he did Give and bequeath to his
     wife's Son Roger Moore if alive & that he come into this Province,
     If not that is to Say if the Said Roger Moore Come not into this
     province or be dead then the Same also to his wife, he did bequeath,
     as by a Transcript of the s.d Will more at Large appeareth But the
     Said Juro.rs do not find that ever the Said Roger Moore Came into p. 257
     this Province but the Said Elizabeth Hinderson By virtue of the (fol. 317)
     Said Will & Testament Entered into and tooke possession of the
     premisses & afterwards did Intermarry one Nicholas Buttrum
     who in her Right hath held and kept possession of the premisses and
     Received the Rents issues & profits thereof untill the month of (fol. 318)
     January in the year of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Seventy
     Six at which time the sd Elizabeth did make her last will and Testam.t
     in writeing under her hand and Seale bearing date the fourth day
     of January 1676 by w.ch Said will she did bequeath the Same Land
     & all nothing Excepted unto her dear husband Nicholas Buttrum
     But if it Should happen that her Son Roger Moore be alive that
     then her Said Son to have one half of the Land with what else is
     already bequeathed in her deceased husband Andrew Hinderson's
     Will, but if her Said Son be dead, then She did bequeath all to her