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under him them or any of them with any other Warranty than
against the said Henry Baker and his heirs or Assigns

Liber R. G.
1770

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov.^r 2.^nd 1770
Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob.t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 2.^d 1770
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great seal in
wax appendant

N.^o 22 An Act for the Relief of Nehemiah Tilghman and Solomon Town-
send and to confirm the Contract made between the said Nehemiah
Tilghman and a certain Major Townsend —

Whereas it appears to this General Assembly upon an Examina-
tion into the truth of the Several Facts set forth in the Petition of
Nehemiah Tilghman and Solomon Townsend That a certain Major
Townsend late of Worcester County Deceased did on the third Day
of November Seventeen hundred and Sixty Six Contract with a
certain Stephen Revell for the Sale of a certain tract or parcel of
Land containing two hundred and three Acres part of a tract of
Land called Majors Security including the Dwelling Plantation of
the said Major Townsend for which the said Stephen Revell was
to pay the said Major Townsend the sum of two hundred and three
Pounds in Dollars at Seven Shillings and six pence each that in
Consequence of the said contract and Purchase the said Major
Townsend and Stephen Revell executed Obligations to each other
for their respective performance thereof and that soon after the
Execution of the aforesaid Obligations the aforesaid Major Town-
send Dyed intestate Leaving Issue one only son Named James
Townsend his heir at Law then and Still an infant and also largely
Indebted to Sundry Persons much more than his Personal Estate
was Sufficient to discharge and that after his Death Solomon Town-
send one of the Petitioners took Administration on the Estate of
the said Major Townsend as also was appointed Guardian unto the
aforesaid James Townsend the son and heir at Law of the said Major
Townsend that since the Death of the said Major Townsend the
aforesaid Stephen Revell for a Valuable Consideration did sell and
dispose of his right and Title of the aforesaid Lands unto Nehemiah
Tilghman the other Petitioner and the Lands aforesaid not being
Conveyed by the said Major Townsend in his Life time to the said

[A Private
Act.]

Stephen Revell agreeable to the Contract therein Specified the said
Stephen Revell did Assign all his right and title of and in the
Lands aforesaid as also the Bonds for the Conveying thereof unto
the said Nehemiah Tilghman your Petitioner and that the said
Stephen Revell in Consequence of the contract aforesaid paid unto
the said Major Townsend the sum of three pounds in part of the

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