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Preamble
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly of Maryland, that Susanna Shepherd, the wife of Solomon Shepherd, both of Frederick county, was during her life time seized and possessed in fee of certain real estate, lying and being in said county, in which her husband had an estate for life, as tenant by the curtesy, that being desirous to invest her husband with the same title in said real estate, that he held .in his other real estate, not owned by his said wife, and which he had acquired by purchase, and held in fee simple, thereby the better to enable him, as the father and head of his family to make suitable provision for them, and to dispose of the same in such manner, and for such purposes as to him might seem best, either by deed or last will and testament, she the said Susanna, together with her said husband the said Solomon, did, on the twenty-ninth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, by their deed of bargain and sale, executed and acknowledged by them on said day, convey or intend to convey said real estate so owned by said Susanna, to William Shepherd, the son of said Solomon and Susanna, who did immediately after convey the, same to his said father Solomon Shepherd, in fee, that all parties to said deed supposed that the same were effectual to carry the intention of said Susanna as aforesaid, fully into effect, and that by the several conveyances and deeds, the said Solomon was seized and possessed in fee simple, of all said real estate of said Susanna, that under this impression the said Solomon during the life of said Susanna sold and conveyed a part of said land and also, after the death of said Susan-
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