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my Self and also of a line drawn Northerly from the said Oak to
the head of the Gutt of Calf Pasture Creek and also to the East-
ward of the said Creek And the Money arising from that Sale to
be Applied immediately by his Executrix to the Payment of his
Debts and that Pursuant to the said last Will the said Executrix did
Advertise the Sale of the said Land in the Maryland Gazette and
at many Publick Places on a certain day within three Months after
the said Testators Decease But the Weather then being rainy and
bad and Buyers not then Appearing the Sale was put of to a
farther day when the said Matthew Bryan one of the Petitioners
Bought the said Land as the highest bidder for the sum of three
hundred and eighty Pounds Current Money and the said Land was
Pursuant to the said Sale conveyed to him the said Matthew Bryan
for the Consideration aforesaid by Deed of Bargain and Sale bear-
ing date the Seventeenth day of June in the Year of our Lord
Seventeen hundred and Sixty two by the said Draper Lusby and
Frances his Wife but as that was not done within three Months
after the Decease of the said Testator as directed by the said
Will the Petitioners Apprehend the Title of the said Matthew
Bryan may not be Secure as if the Sale and Conveyance had been
in Time and therefore as the Land was Sold for a very great Price
being but one hundred and forty one Acres and very little Improved

and greatly to the benefit of the Heir at Law who is still under

Age and wou'd have been Chargeable with the Debts due and
Interest and the intent and design of the said Will was in all respects
fully complied with they the said Petitioners prayed that an Act
might pass Confirming the said Sale and Conveyance of the Land
aforesaid to the said Matthew Bryan as safely and Securely to all

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No. 1

intents and Purposes as if the said Will had been Literally complied
with And Whereas it Appears to this General Assembly that the
facts set forth in the said Petition are true and that it is Just and
reasonable to give relief in the Premisses Be it therefore enacted
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with the
Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same That the
said Matthew Bryan is and shall from hence forward stand and
be seized to him and his Heirs forever of in and to as good sure
Perfect and indefeazable an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple in
the said recited Land and Premisses conveyed to him as aforesaid
by the said recited Deed of the said Draper Lusby and Frances his
Wife to all intents and Purposes as he might or cou'd have been
had the Sale and Conveyance of the said Land been made and
compleated by the said Executrix within three Months from the
Decease of the said John Hynson Any thing in the said recited Will
to the Contrary Notwithstanding saving to his most sacred Majesty
his Heirs and Successors The Right Honourable the Lord Pro-

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