Chancery Court Proceedings, 1676.  477

       Charles County ss An Inquisition Indented & taken at Nanjemy Liber P C
     this Eighth day of June in the ffirst yeare of the Dominion of
     Charles Absolute Lord & Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary-
     land & Avalon Lord Barron of Baltemore &c And in the Yeare of
     Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seaventy Six before John
     Stone & Thomas Httssey Gentl By Vertue of A Comission in the
     nature of A writt of Mandamus to them directed and to this Inquisi-
     tion Annexed to Enquire of the Yearly Vallue of three Tracts of
     land that did belong to John Hitchinson late of this County De-
     ceased The one Called Woodbury harbour Lyeing att Nanjemy
     in the County Aforesaid Conteining Three hundred Acres &
     Two hundred Acres called Hitchinsons hope lyeing att Nanjemy
     aforesaid & Two hundred Acres Lyeing at Chingoe-Muxon Called
     Wicksall by the Oathes of Henry Aspenall Abraham Sapcoate p. 91
     Richard Vaughan Richard Waye David Towell Christopher Breames
     William Marritt Christopher Warner Robert Thomson Edward
     Abbot Bartholemew Vacansine William Vosse which Jurors upon
     their Oathes as they humbly Conceive That that Tract of Land
     Called Woodberryes harbour Lyeing att Nanjemy Conteining Three
     hundred Acres is worth by the yeare Sixty pounds of tobacco &
     Hitchinsons hope Lyeing att Nanjemy aforesaid Conteining Two
     hundred Acres to be worth forty pounds of tobacco p Annum &
     Wicksall Lyeing att Chingoe muxon Conteining Two hundred Acres
     is worth fifty pounds of tobacco p Annum In Testimony whereof
     as well the Comissioners as the Jurors aforesd have hereunto sett
     theire hands & Seales the day & Yeare above written
                                  John Stone Sealed
                                  Tho: Hussy Sealed
              Signe                Signe
     Henry Aspinall   Sealed Christopher     Breames Sealed
     Abraham Sapcoate Sealed     Signe
                signe      William  Marritt Sealed
                           Christopher Warner     Sealed
     Richard VaughanSealed
                           Robert ThomsonSealed
     Richard Waye  Sealed  Edward Abbott Sealed
       Signe               Bartholemy de Vaconsaine    Sealed
     David Towell  Sealed  William Vosse Sealed

       Which being Read & heard it is the Judgement of the Court here
     the first day of December one thousand Six hundred Seaventy Six
     that the land in this Inquisition named is Escheated to his Lordshipp
     the Lord Proprietary for want of heire

       Whereas by vertue of A writt of Mandamus to us directed Henry
     Adams & Ignatius Causeen from the Right Honrbie Charles Lord &
     Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Barron
     of Baltemore &c These are therefore in the name of the Right Honrbie