The Lower House. 281

In Obedience to the Order of the Honourable House your Com-
mittee have examined the said ffacts and do find them as follows Viz.^t
That Major Townsend the Obligor in the said Petition mentioned
did on the third Day of November seventeen hundred and sixty six
pass and execute his Bond to Stephen Revel in the said Petition
mentioned in the Penalty of four hundred and six Pounds Current
Money of Maryland for the conveying and assuring to the said
Stephen Revell his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns
upon Payment of the Consideration Money by the said Stephen
Revell to the said Major Townsend one Tract or Parcel of Land
being Part of a Tract of Land called Major's Security lying and
being in Worcester County containing two hundred and three Acres
of Land. That the said Stephen Revell by a Writing under his Hand
and Seal and annexed to the Bond of the said Major Townsend did
assign transfer and set over unto Nehemiah Tilghman one of your
Petitioners his Heirs and Assigns all his Right Title and Interest of
in and to the said Bond That the said Stephen Revell on the said
third Day of November seventeen hundred and sixty six passed his
Bond to the said Major Townsend in the Penalty of four hundred
and six Pounds Current Money of Maryland Conditioned for the
Payment of two hundred and three Pounds Current Money in
Spanish Pistoles at twenty seven Shillings and Spanish milled Pieces
of Eight at Seven Shillings and six Pence each at or upon the
Wednesday in the first Week of March seventeen hundred and sixty
seven in Consideration of the aforesaid Part of a Tract of Land
so to be conveyed by the said Major Townsend to the said Stephen
Revell as aforesaid That the said Sum of three Pounds Currency
was paid on the Bond last aforesaid by the said Stephen Revell to
the said Major Townsend. That the said Major Townsend on or
about the first Day of March seventeen hundred and sixty seven
died intestate leaving Issue James Townsend his only Son an Infant
about seven Years of Age and a Daughter an Infant of the Age
of about Years That the said Major Townsend at the Time
of his Death was indebted unto Nehemiah King on Bond bearing
Date the Eleventh Day of August seventeen hundred and fifty seven
conditioned for the Payment of thirty Pounds Current Money and
Interest unto Robert Jenckins Henry on Bond bearing Date the
twenty second Day of June seventeen hundred and fifty nine con-
ditioned for the Payment of seven pounds Eleven Shillings and six

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 24

Pence One ffarthing Current Money and Interest And upon In-
formation from one of your Committee unto John Atkinson on
Bond in the Sum of twenty five Pounds Current Money and unto
sundry Persons upon Accounts proved and delivered to one of your
Petitioners, Solomon Townsend as Administrator of the said Major
Townsend in the Sum of One hundred and ten Pounds seven
Shillings and five Pence half Penny Current Money. That the

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