428 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

stands and Number Five being the lott where William Govane then
kept Store under Condition to be Void on Payment of the Con-
sideration Money and Interest on or before the twentieth day of
December Seventeen hundred and fifty four That the said William
Hammond died greatly indebted about the Month of January Seven-
teen hundred and fifty two without discharging the said Bond or
Mortgage or any part of the Money mentioned in either of them
Possessed of a Considerable Personal Estate and seized in fee
amongst others of a tract of Land lying near Baltimore Town called
Cole's Addition containing Sixty seven Acres having first made his
Testament and last Will in Writing and thereof Appointed his
Wife Sarah Executrix and by his said Will did devise the said Sixty
seven Acres of Land to his son William the said Lott Number one
to his Sons William and Thomas and the said lott Number Five to
his Daughters Caroline Belinda and Mary untill they should be
Married and afterwards to his Sons Larkin and James in Fee

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since which the said Thomas the Devisee is dead and Caroline and
Mary have Married and the aforesaid William Larkin and James
others of the Divisees aforesaid was still Infant and the said Colonel
William Hammond by his said Will did Order his other Lands to be
Sold by his said Executrix for Payment of his Debts which have
been all since Sold except his Moiety of a Tract of Land called
Cromwells Chance lying in Baltimore County the whole containing
two hundred and forty eight Acres which Moiety the said Executrix
bargained for the Sale of but before She had received the Con-
sideration Money or executed any Conveyance thereof died Intestate
That the whole Personal Estate of the said William Hammond and
the Purchase Money of his Lands sold Pursuant to his Will have
been applied to the Payment of his other Debts for which it was
Scarcely if Quite Sufficient the said Bond or Mortgage still remain-
ing due That the said John Paca junior being liable to the Payment
of the Whole of the said Bond to the said Richard Moate in order
to charge the Equitable Interest of the said Devisees in the Mort-
gaged Premises (the legal Estate being vested in the Mortgagee by
failure of the Condition) on the sixth day of January seventeen
hundred and fifty six the said John Paca Junior paid the said
Alexander Lawson the sum of one hundred and five Pounds six
shillings and five pence sterling and seventy six Pounds nineteen
shillings and four pence Currency being the Consideration Money
of the said Mortgage and Interest to that time and took an Assign-
ment of the said Mortgage to himself that the said John Paca Junior
(after the Assignment) to Prevent the Houses on the Premises going
to decay expended large sums of Money in the repair of the Houses
which will nevertheless be in a ruinous and untenantable State long
before the said Infants will be capable of releasing the Equity of
redemption and the rents arising from the Mortgaged Premisses will