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Possession thereof and intermarried with a Certain Laurence Ham-
mond of Ann Arundel County by whom she had Two Children
who both died Under Age and Without Issue. That by Virtue of
the said Intermarriage the said Laurence Hammond holds and
Enjoys Part of the said Tract of Land containing two hundred and
forty nine acres of Land Beginning at a Slip'd White Oak Saplin
standing North sixty nine Degrees and one Quarter of a Degree
West two hundred perches from the second Bounded tree of the
aforesaid Land called Harborough then North and by East to
Potapesco River then bounding on and with the said River to the
North North East line of the aforesaid Land as Originally Ex-
pressed then with the said North North East Line to a bounded
White Oak standing on the West side of Callaways Branch being
on Antient boundary of the said Land called Harborough then from
the said Tree to the Beginning (or Sliped Saplin) and as the said
John Griniff Howard is Informed, has a Right by the Courtesy of
England to hold possess and Enjoy for and during his Natural
life the said Land and that he as Son and only Child of Catharine
Griniff Eldest daughter of the said John Griniff has a right as heir
at Law after the Death of the said Hammond to the said Tract of
Land and the said John Griniff Howard by his said Petition to this
Present General Assembly further therein set forth that he is desire-

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ous to sell the said Land and to Cut off and Dock the Entail of the
said Land and to replace in the same Consideration and Circum-
stances, Lands of a Greater or Equal Value and the same Quantity
in stead and in Lieu thereof, which said Land to be replaced as afore-
said is part of a Tract of Land lying in Baltimore County called
and known by the Name of the Isles of Capese Containing Twelve
hundred and fifty six Acres of Land Four hundred and Ten Acres
a Part thereof the Said John Griniff Howard by Deed of Bargain
and Sale from Mary and Ely Dorsey Legally Executed and Dated
the Eighth day of October seventeen hundred and forty Eight holds
Possesses and Enjoys. And the said John Griniff Howard by his
said Petition to this Present General Assembly further therein set
forth that he has Carefully Laid out of the said Tract Four hundred
and Ten acres of Land, Two hundred and forty nine Acres of
Land to be replaced as aforesaid in lieu as aforesaid, Beginning
at Eight bounded White Oaks being the beginning of the Original
Tract and running with the Original Lines South East seventy
perches then South West Two hundred and Eighty perches then
North West seventy four perches then North fourteen degrees East
from the Original lines two hundred and ninety Perches then with a
Straight line to the Beginning. It was therefore humbly Prayed
that an Act of Assembly of this Province might pass in favour of
the said John Griniff Howard Impowering him to Cut off and
Dock the Entail of two hundred and forty nine Acres of Land Part

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