322 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

N.^o 11

Liber R. G.
1770

An Act to remedy a Defect in the Title of Bartholomew Pomeroy

of London Merchant to a tract or parcel of Land called Renchers
Adventure lying in Prince Georges County

[A Private
Act.]

Whereas it Appears to this General Assembly upon an Examina-
tion into the Truth of the Several ffacts set fforth in the Petition of
Bartholomew Pomeroy of London Merchant Survivor of William
Tower and Joseph Jansen That a certain John Brooke late of Calvert
County deceased did on the twenty sixth Day of January Seventeen
hundred and fforty three ffour [sic] pass and Execute his Bond to a
certain Thomas Hodgkin late of Prince George's County Deceased in
the Penalty of One hundred Pounds Sterling conditioned for the con-
veying and Assuring to the said Thomas Hodgkin his heirs and
Assigns before the Tenth Day of August Seventeen hundred and
forty Six one tract or parcel of Land being part of a tract or parcel
of Land called Rencher's Adventure lying situate and being in
Prince Georges County aforesaid then in the Possession of the said
John Brooke contained and circumscribed within the Lines Limits and
distances hereinafter expressed Viz^t Beginning at the end of Love-
joys and Moberlys North Seven Degrees East Line and runing
thence north seven Degrees East sixty four Perches then north fifty
six degrees East Twelve Perches to a Spanish Oak by a Pocoson North
forty six degrees East One hundred ninety seven Perches North
Eighty three degrees West ninety five Perches North eighteen East
seventy four perches north nineteen degrees West fifty Perches to a
bounded Poplar then East by North One hundred and sixty Perches
south five Degrees East One hundred and Eight Perches North forty
three Degrees East one hundred sixteen Perches North thirty three
and an half Degrees East twelve Perches to a bounded Hickory by
a Branch side thence South Seventy eight Degrees East four hundred
Perches to a small Hickory in Leonard Brooke's old Field thence
south forty degrees west fifty Six Perches South sixteen degrees
West One hundred Seventy three Perches to the Red Oak of London-
derry thence south forty eight degrees west One hundred twenty

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four Perches to the Branch between John Sassers then west north
west twelve Perches north fifty degrees east One hundred and eight
Perches North fifty one degrees west six Perches to Sassers Maple
at the Head of the Branch then south ten degrees west to the Dividing
Line and from thence to the beginning containing and Laid out for
Six hundred and Sixty four Acres be the same more or Less That
the said Thomas Hodgkin on the said twenty sixth Day of January
Seventeen hundred and forty three four Passed and Executed his
Bond to the said John Brooke in the Penalty of One hundred Pounds
Sterling Money conditioned for the Payment of fifty Pounds Sterling
Money at four Payments by the said tenth Day of August Seventeen
hundred and forty six in Consideration of the said tract of Land so
to be conveyed by the said John Brooke to the said Thomas Hodgkin