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follows Viz.^t That on the tenth Day of January in the year sixteen
hundred forty two the then Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
of this Province granted the Lands in the said Petition mentioned
unto a certain Thomas Weston of Plymouth in New England and
his Heirs: That the said Thomas Weston died leaving Issue, Eliza-
beth Weston his only Child and Heir at Law: That the said Eliza-
beth Weston married a certain Roger Conant of New England by
whom she had Issue John Conant her Son and Heir at Law. That
afterwards on or about the fifteenth Day of March seventeen hun-
dred and thirty six the said John Conant the Son and Heir of the
said Roger Conant & Elizabeth his Wife by a Writing on the Grant
aforesaid purporting to be an Assignment for the Consideration of
the natural Love and Affection which he had for his Kinsman Josiah
Conant of Mansfield in the County of Windham and Colony of
Connecticut in New England and also for the further Consideration
of One thousand Pounds New England Money made over the said
Lands to the said Josiah Conant; which said Writing does not appear
to have been executed: That afterwards on or about the fourteenth
Day of May seventeen hundred and thirty six the said John Conant
by Deed properly executed and acknowledged in New England for
the Consideration of natural Love and Affection and also for the
further Consideration of One thousand Pounds New England Money
conveyed the same Lands to the said Josiah Conant and his Heirs;
who, by Virtue thereof, was in Possession of the said Lands: That
the said Josiah Conant on or about the 28:^th and 29.^th of September
1737 leased the said Land to several Persons for and during the
Term of fourteen Years: That the said Josiah Conant did by Deed
bearing Date on or about the 9.^th of November 1745 and acknowl-
edged in Boston the 11.^th Day of November 1745 for the Considera-
tion of £2950 Boston Money convey the same Lands unto a certain
William Thornton of Ann Arundel County and his Heirs; but that
the Acknowledgment on the said Deed of Conveyance is not agree-
able to the Act of Assembly of this Province relative to the Inroll-
ment of Conveyances; and on the same 9.^th of November 1745 the
said Josiah Conant assigned over the said Leases unto the said
William Thornton: That the said William Thornton on the 5.^th of
September 1747 by Deed properly executed acknowledged and
recorded for the Consideration of £428.. 11.. 6 Sterling conveyed the
same Land to the Petitioner and his Heirs — That the said Abraham
Barnes the Petitioner for about twenty Years past hath been and
now is in the actual and sole Possession of the said Lands under
and by Virtue of the Conveyance aforesaid from the said William
Thornton: That it does not appear whether the said Josiah Conant
is dead with or without Heirs. All which is humbly submitted to
the Consideration of the Honble House.

Signed per Order Ralph Dobinson Cl Com.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 23