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and by his said Will impowered his Brother Thomas Colville [one
of his Executors to sell the said Tract of Land to pay his Debts.
That the said Thomas Colvill] after the Death of the said John
Colvill did [by Virtue of the said Power given to him by the Will
of the said John Colvill] for and in Consideration of £2500 Sterling
Money Bargain and sell the said Land to John Semple and passed
his Bond for the Conveyance of the same in the Penal Sum
of five thousand Pounds Sterling Money. That the said John
Semple passed his Bond to the said Thomas Colvill in an equal
Penalty for his entring into ffresh Bond with good and sufficient
Security for the Payment of Two thousand five hundred Pounds
Sterling Money the Consideration Money aforesaid. That the said
Thomas Colvill afterwards died without having received the said
Consideration Money or executed the Conveyance of the said
Land to the said John Semple and by his last Will and Testament
appointed Frances Colvill his Wife, George Washington Esq.r and
John West jun.r Executors of the said Will. That the said John
Colvill died considerably in Debt and that the said Thomas Colvill
sold the Land aforesaid in Pursuance of the Power given by the
Will of the said John Colvill. All which is humbly submitted to the
Consideration of this House
Signed by Order John Courts Jones Cl
Which was read
[Editor's Note. That the committee report was not correctly
copied, see the terms of act as finally passed on p. 293.]
Ordered, That the Petition of Frances Colvill and others be read;
and it was read accordingly and Leave given to the Petitioners to
bring in a Bill pursuant to the Prayer of the said Petition
Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer Esq from the Upper House
delivers to M.r Speaker the Petitions of sundry languishing Prisoners
in the several Jails therein mentioned Which were read the first Time
and ordered to lie on the Table
A Petition of Joseph Hobbs of Ann Arundel County setting forth
that for the Term of 16 or 18 Years past he had a free and un-
deniable Road leading from his House to a Chapel called Poplar
Spring Chapel and which Road he has always made Use of as a
Chapel and Church Road, a Mill Road, and a Market Road. That
some Time last Spring one Levin Lawrence deprived him of Access
through said Road by staking up the Gates thereon and forewarning
him coming that Way after. That since that Time he has been
obliged to make Use of a Road to go to the abovementioned Places
which is near or quite unpassable at Times, and about a Mile further
in three Miles than usual which he finds extremely inconvenient to
him. That there does not more than two hundred Yards of the said
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