MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 449

Eodem Die

[J:G:D:D:] Levin and Thomas Hicks Sons and Devisees of Thomas Hicks

Deced v [T:B:] Philemon Lecompt and Mary his Wife the Daughter

and heir to W^m Seward deced the Son and heir to George Seward

Be it Remembred that on the Thirtieth day of October Anno Dom 1724
The following Petition to the Chancellor of Maryland With a Petition and
Appeale To his Excellency the Governour and his Lordships honourable
were presented Which follows in these Words ss

To the Honourable Richard Tilghman Esq^r Chancellor of Maryland
The Humble Petition of Levin Hicks and Thomas Hicks Sons and Devisees
of Thomas Hicks Deceased
Sheweth

That Your Petitioners conceives themselves greatly agrieved by a Decree
formerly given Against the Said Thomas in his Lifetime in this Honourable
Court Concerning two Tracts of Land Called Secter and Cumberlake * and
Concerning the proper Remedy to be by an Appeal to the Governour and
Council from the Said decree which your Petitioners humbly upon giving
Such Security as your Honour Shall Direct for the Due prosecution thereof

And they will pray etc.

Granted per R^d Tilghman.

To His Excellency Charles Calvert Esq^r Governour of Maryland and the
Rest of the Honourable Judges of the Court of Appeals.
The Humble Petition and Appeale of Levin Hicks and Thomas Hicks Sons
and Devisees of Thomas Hicks Deced
Sheweth

That a Certain Thomas Smithson of Talbott County Esq^r deced and a
Certain Thomas Smithson of Dorchester County Deced on the day
of Anno Dom Seventeen hundred and by their humble Peti-
tion prefered to the then Right Hon^rble the Lord Propry thereby Seting
forth [649] That George Seward late of Dorchester County had Surveyed
and laid out for him three Severall Tracts of Land Lying in the Said County
the one for 769 Acres of Land Called Sector another for 100 Acres Called
Cumberlake and the other for 50 Acres Called Hardgrove And thereby Set
forth that the Said Land Was Surveyed upon no Lawfull Warr^t and that no
Patent Issued to the Said Seward and that the Said Seward had been absent
out of the Province about Seven Years And that his Lordships rent never was
paid for the Same and by their Said Petition af^d humbly Suplicated his Lord-
ship and Councill to grant them as p^r Warrt to Take up the Said Land Again
to their own proper use and behoof paying his Lordships According to the
Condition of Plantations then in force Whereupon as p^r Warrant Issued to

i " Cumberlake " is generally used in this record and in i Harris & McHenry 22, but in the
original patent and other documents of title " Camberlake " is found.