6o        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672/3.

         Liber M M His Excellency The Capt Generall upon the Suggestion of John
                 Quigley on the behalf e of his partner Garrat Vanswearingen, that
                 John Litchington Master of the ship Mary of London (for whome
                 the said Vanswearingen was Security for his Dutyes) had absented
                 himself and was gone into Virginia and it was conceived the ship
                 would goe away without Clearing if not prevented, and so cause
                 ye sd Vanswearingen to come to be lyable to the forfeiting the
                 bonds for wch he became Jointly bound with the said Litchington
                 to ye Lord Proprietary, wherefore his Exctty upon the said Sugges
                 tion issueing an ordr to the Sheriff of St Maryes County to secure
                 the sayles of ye said ship untill further order, and now here at this
                 day the said Litchington Desired of ye Court that his sayles might
                 be to him Delivered, and the said Vanswearingen appearing and
                 objecting nothing to the Contrary, It is by the Court ordered that
                 the said Litchington have his sayles Delivered unto him accordingly,
                 he paying the officer five shillings for his paines in securing them
                 and no more.

                   Thomas Kerey having peticioned his Excellency The Capt Gen
                 erall that having transported himself and family out of Virginia
                 into this Province to inhabite, & for that Reason had Rights due
                 unto him for three hundred acres of land, and George Johnson of
              p.2    Somerset County having at that time power to prove Rights graunt
                 warrants and Survey Land the said Kerey applyed himseife to ye
                 said Johnson for the same and having pved Rights to 300 Acres of
                 land before the said Johnson had a warrant for the same & the said
                 Johnson Surveyd 300 Acres accordingly for the said Kerey but
                 never retorned the said Rights or Certificate to the Secretaryes office
                 to be recorded to the great Damage of ye sd Kerey, and his Excel
                 lency having Comanded the said Johnson by his warrant before this
                 Cort to answere the same, who this day appearing alledged that he
                 had Retorned the said Certificate & Rights for 300 Acres for ye sd
                 Petr, to the Secretaryes office but that the Petrs name as he under
                 stood was Carey to wch being but a mistake the said Johnson was
                 Discharged and the Records being searched a Certificate was found
                 in lib if if fol 500 made by the said Johnson of 300 Acres of Land
                 called Charges Adventure Surveyd for Thomas Carey. but the
                 Rights appeared not wherefore it is ordered by the Cort that the said
                 Carey pve his Rights anew and that Patent issue for ye sd land
                 according

                   Christopher Rousby and ffrancis Swinfen peticion this Court that
                 they were Suthoned to appeare as witnesses in December Cort 1669,
                 on the behalfe of Thomas Tovey plt agt Thomas Brooke defendt,
                 and so from Court to Court untill Aprill Court last past being nine
                 Courts in number, during all wh time they did attend (as required