Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673/4. 229




      Mary Thomas                               Liber M M
        agt
      John Allen
      ffrancis Knight
     agt            The severall Defendts in these actions appeare
      John Wells        .
                    by their Respective Attorneys and imple untill
      Cornelius Comagys
                   the next Provincial Court.
        agt
      John Wells
      Timothy Lindall
          agt
      Philip Shapleigh

      Maryland ss. By his Excellency The Capt Generatt.
        Whereas their was graunted undr the greate Seale of this Province
      unto John Harris of London Marchant a certeine pcell of land
      Called the Mannor of Grafton lyeing on the Northside of Chop
      tanke River on the west side of a Creeke in the sd River Called
      Harris' Creeke Conteyning and formly laid out for One Thowsand Locus sigilli
      acres more or lesse, as by the Certifficate & Graunt thereof Remain
      ing upon Record Relacon being thereunto had more fully & more at
      large it doth & may appeare of wch sd pcell of land the Rent hath
      been behinde & unpayd since the first survey thereof so that the sd
      land by Reason thereof is become Elapsed and Escheated unto the
      sd Lord Propry according to act of Assembly in that case provided,
      These are therefore to Require you Stephen Tully Sheriff of the sd
      County that you Enter in & upon the sd land Called the Mannor of
      Grafton & of the same that you make seizure for his Lopps use.
      and how you shall Execute this prcept that you Retorne unto his
      Lopps Justices of his Provincial Court wth this prcept at the Citty p. 165
      of St Maryes the Tenth day of ffebruary next Given undr my hand
      and seale at Armes this Eleaventh day of December in the 42th
      yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673.
      To Mr Stephen Tully high Sheriff
         of Talbot County These.
        Underneath the foregoing prcept was thus written vizt I did
      upon the 31th day of January 1673 in the prsence of John Coop
      & Robert ffuller make seizure of the land within mentioned called
      Grafton by taking possession by Turfe and Twigg of a pt of the sd
      Mannor in the name of the whole, and then and there marked a
      Chestnut Tree wth the broad arrow not finding the ould bound Tree.
                                   Stephen Tully Sheriff

      Charles Delaroch
        agt
      John Allen