18 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.







          Liber A  Leonard Calvert Esqr have given and granted and by these Presents
              for us and our heirs do give grant Enfeoff and Confirm unto Robert
              Short of the I'le of Kent planter all that parcell of Land called
              Messon Freehold lying on the West side of the Island of Kent and
              bounding on the North with a Line drawn from a marked Tree at the
              Middle of Messon pond and Extending into the Woods South East
              and by East seventy perches or thereabouts On the East with a
              Meridian Line even from the End of the said seventy perches South
              and by West for the length of ninety Perches or thereabouts On
              the South with the Land of Edward Cummins, On the West with
              Chesapeak bay Containing and now sett forth for fifty acres be it
              more or Less and all profitts benefitts and appurtenances thereunto
              belonging To have and to hold the same unto the said Robert Short
              and his heirs forever To be holden of us & Our heirs as of Our
              Mannor of Crayford within Our said Island in free and Common
              Soccage by fealty only for all Services Yealding therefore unto us
              and our heirs at the place where Kent mill now standeth half a bushell
              of good wheat Yearly at the feast of our Lords Nativity Given at
              Saint Marys under our great Seal this Ninth of December 1640
              Witness our said Dear Brother &c Leonard Caivert

                Know all Men by these presents that I Robert Shart of the lie of
              Kent do assign all my Right and title of This Pattent within
              mentioned unto William Jones and Francis Lumbard Wittness my
              hand this 16th of May        Robt I R Shart
              Teste William Lantt                    sign

        [fol. 77] Know all Men by these presents that We William Jones and
              Francis Lumbard do assign over all our Right Title & Interist in
              this pattent with the Land certefied therein unto Thomas Beicher
              his heirs or assignes Witness our hands the 22d of June 1651
               Signed and delivered in Court     Thomas Pett administratr
                the first day of June 1653 Francis Lumbard
               Teste me Thomas Hynson Clk of Kent Court the 22th of June 1653
                Whereas Thomas Hynson the attorney of Thomas Pett hath
              petitioned against Francis Lumbard for the delivery of a pattent
              of 350 Acres of Land made unto the said Lumbard and William
              Jones deced It hath not appeared to the Court that the said Land
              belongeth to the said Jones wholy but by their Copartnership it
              appears the one half to be said Jones which the appraisers may
              Value the whole and the said Lumbard to have the refusal he paying
              as much as another

              Hanson, Old Kent, p. 70.

        [fol. —] Among the proceedings of the Court, which was holden 3d August
              1653, Francis Lumbard, for neglect of duty, was removed from the
              Office of High Sheriff, and Thomas Bradnox appointed, in his place.