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Caton, and her heirs, one undivided third part of all the said ma-
nor and lands as her portion thereof, reserving to himself a life
estate, in the said third, and then devised one other undivided third
to his said daughter Catharine Harper, in fee, and the remaining
third in fee to his said grand daughters Elizabeth Chew Carroll,
Mary Sophia Bayard, Harriott Carroll, and Louisa Catharine
Carroll; that the said Richard and Mary Caton, in order to ad-
vance and provide for their three aforesaid daughters Mary Anno
Patterson, Louisa Catharine Harvey, and Emily M'Tavish, did
afterwards, by three several indentures of bargain and sale, con-
vey to Robert Oliver, John Oliver and Roswell L. Colt, all of the
city of Baltimore, and to the survivor of them, and to the heirs
and assigns of such survivor, three undivided fourth parts of the
said undivided third, conveyed as aforesaid by the said Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton, to the said Mary Caton, being three un-
divided twelfths of all the said lands in Frederick county, which
indentures were each of one of the said undivided fourths, and in
trust, one for the said Mary Anne Patterson, one for the said
Emily M'Tavish, and one for the said Louisa Catharine Harvey,
all with various limitations over, on various contingencies in the
said deeds severally described, for the mutual benefit on those con-
tingencies of the said Mary Anne Patterson, Emily M'Tavish,
Louisa Catharine Harvey, and Elizabeth Caton, their children
and descendants, which indentures are duly recorded among the
land records of Frederick county aforesaid; that the said Richard
and Mary Caton have destined and intend the remaining fourth
of the said undivided third, conveyed to her as aforesaid, as a
provision for their said daughter Elizabeth Caton, for which pur-
pose a similar deed of conveyance has been prepared, but not ex-
ecuted; that it was afterwards agreed between the said Robert
Patterson and Mary Anne Patterson, with the assent of the other
memorialists, that six hundred acres of land, part of the said ma-
nor, to be laid off by metes and bounds, and to be considered as
part of her undivided twelfth, should he allotted and conveyed to
him in fee simple, which allotment hath since been made, and the
said six hundred acres have accordingly been set out and convey-
ed to him in fee, by metes and bounds, by indentures of bargain
and sale from the said Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and Rich-
ard and Mary Caton, with indentures of release from the
said Robert Oliver, John Oliver and Roswell L. Colt, and
from the. said John M'Tavish, Emily M'Tavish. Louisa Ca-
tharine Harvey, and Elizabeth Caton: that the said Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton. instead of leaving the said manor
and lands in Frederick county to be divided under his will, hath
lately resolved to make the division and allotment during his life,
reserving to himself a life estate in the remaining two thirds not
already conveyed as above set forth, a measure which he deems
most beneficial to his family, and they also desire; and pursuant
to this determination has caused a fair and equal division into
twelve, equal parts, with proper plots and explanations, to be
made by skilful and judicious persons, with which division he and
the other memorialists are fully satisfied, and has designated by
lot four of those twelfth parts, being one third of the whole, to the
said Catharine Harper, one twelfth each to Elisabeth Caton, and
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