Chancery Court Proceedings, 1676.  479

    of William Robinson deceased can wee find according to best Liber P C
    informacon wee can gett Butt of whatt Mannor & under what Rents
    & services the Said land is held Wee Jurors are altogether Ignorant
    and further Wee Jurors as Wee humbly Conceive that the said
    One hundred and fifty Acres of Land are of Vallue by the Yeare in
    all Issues four hundred pounds of tobacco And further Wee Jurors
    upon our Oathes Say that the Said George Robinson Sonn of Wil-
    liam Robinson dyed (Vizt) on the twenty Sixth day of January
    Anno Dothi One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy five And that he
    dyed Seized of the said Tract of Land as of ffee in the County of
    Charles without any heyre or Will And further Wee Jurors find
    that the Said Land Since the death of the Said George Robinson
    sonn of William Robinson Was in the possession of Samuell Cressey
    who marryed the Relict of the said William Robinson One day And
    Since the decease of the said Samuell Cressey the said land hath
    beene in the possession of Richard Edelen Execr of the Said Samuell
    Cressey deceased In witnes whereof as well the Comissioners the
    Jurors Aforesd have hereunto sett theire hands & Seales the day &
    yeare first Above written   Henry Adams Sealed
                                Ignatius Causin Sealed
    Robert Robins    Sealed   Signe
    the marke of           Jacob PetersonSealed
    John Wheeler  Sealed   Robert Castleton Sealed
         Signe             ffrancis AdamsSealed
    Thomas T BakerSealed    Signe
            Signe          Jno B ButcherSealed
    Alexander SmithSealed  Thomas JenkinsSealed
    Thomas Helgar Sealed   Zacharey HaynesSealed
    Archbald WaughobSealed

      Which being Read & heard it is the Judgment of the Court here
    the Nine & Twentyeth day of November One Thousand Six hundred
    seaventy Six that the Land in this Inquisition named is Escheated
    to his Lordshipp the Lord Proprietary for want of heyre

      Wee whose names are here under written being A Jury of Enquiry
    of A parcell of land Lyeing on the North side of Sassafrax River
    where the Court house now Stands who is the Right owners thereof
    & how much the Same Containes & who Ever was posest of the
    Same & by what title & how & in what manner they had held & En-
    joyed the Same The Inquisition of which wee here returne our Pro-
    ceedings. That is this parcell of land was taken up by ffrancis Smith
    And soe Sould to John Browne of New England & Sould to the Said
    Browne to Marquis Seaverton A Sweed & Sould from the said
    Seaverson to Peter Jacobson A Sweed who dyed & left itt to his sonn