440      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

           Liber N N  his possession of the said Messuage & land without delay you cause
                  to be had & given And in what manner you Execute this precept that
                  you make known to our said Justices of our said Court the Eleventh
                  day of June next & have you there this writt Wittnes our trusty &
                  welbeloved Thomas Notley Esqr our Lievtent Genll & chiefe Justice
                  of our said Province the thirteenth day of April in the third yeare
                  of our Dominion &c Annoq3 Doni 1678. Att which said 11th of
                  June the said Sheriffe maketh returne of the writt aforesaid that
                  he hath delivered unto the said Wm Ward quiet possession before
                  John lurner Milison & John ftosset both Inhabitants in the County
                  aforesaid


             p. 659 Eliza  Carleton & at His Lordpp the Lord Propry of this Province
                      agt sendeth his writt of habere facias possession to
                  Edwa Williams the Sheriffe of Cecil County in these words.
                  Whereas Elizabeth Carleton Widdow Mother
                  & Guardian of Mary Carleton & Elizabeth Carleton daughters & Co
                  heyres of Tho: Carleton deceased & in right of the said Mary &
                  Elizabeth att our Provinciall Court held att St Maryes the thirteenth
                  day of April instant before our Justices there by the discretion of
                  the same Court have recoverd against Edward Williams their posses
                  sion of one messuage & two hundred & fifty acres of land in Cecil
                  County part of a tract of land called by the name of the ifolly
                  scituate lying & being on the East side of Chesepiake bay in Turners
                  Creek in Sassafrax River with the appurtennces which he the said
                  Edward Williams unjustly deteyned from them Wee therefore
                  comand you that to them the said Mary & Elizabeth Carleton their
                  possession of the said Messuage & land with the appurtennces being
                  part of the said tract of land called the ifolly without delay you
                  cause to be had & given And in what manner you Execute this
                  prcept that you make known to our Justices of our said Court to be
                  held att St Maryes the Eleventh day of June next, & have you there
                  this Writt Wittnes our trusty & welbeloved Thomas Notley Esqr
                  our Lievtent Genll & chiefe Justice of our said Province the thirteenth
                  day of April in the third yeare of our Dominion &c: Annoq Doni
                  1678. Att which said Eleventh day of June the same Sheriffe maketh
                  returne of the writt aforesaid in these words vizt By vertue of this
                  writt to me directed I doe here certifie, that on the seven & twentieth
                  day of May in the yeare within specified I have given & delivered
                  unto Mr Charles James for the use of Elizabeth Carleton in right
                  of Mary Carleton & Elizabeth Carleton daughters & Coheyres of
                  Thomas Carleton deceased full, & quiet possession of one Messuage
                  & two hundred & fifty acres of land with the appurtennces within
                  specified as I am within comanded
                                           p me Jona Sibrey Sheriffe.