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Provincial Court Land Records, 1724-1731
Volume 697, Page 213   View pdf image
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213    given or granted to any person or persons whatsoever for or to any the
          Purposes or powers hereby given and Granted to you Our said Dear
          Brother strictly commanding and requiring all persons of what
          Degree ^or^ Condition soever to pay ready and due Respect Submission
          and Obedience to you our said ^Dear^ Brother as They will answer the
          Contrary at their Utmost perill Given at London under our hand
          and Greater Seal at Arms this fourteenth day of March in the
          Thirteenth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord King George
          and in the Eleventh year of Our Dominion over the said Province
          Annoq Domini 1726
          By his Lordships
          Command Cha Lowe
          Recorded July 5.th 1727

          x.d
vide forfeiture of    To his Excellency Charles Calvert Esq.r Governour
recog.r in May      of Maryland
prov Court 1727

          The Petition of William Beckingham William Ghiselin John Lawson
          & Charles Boot
       Most Humbly Sheweth  
                                           That a Certain Richard Keate had heretofore
          Committed some misdemenors for which he was Committed to the
          Publick Goal of this Province where he burnt his knee very much
          which together with the Extream bitter cold weather in the winter
          time did realy render him at that time an object of Charity And your
          petitioners being moved purely out of pity and Compassion towards his
          Circumstances became his Sureties for his Appearance at the then
          next Assizes which should happen for Ann Arundell County and
          accordingly Recognized to the Right honble the Lord Propry in
          the sume of one hundred pounds sterl But the said Keare ^on^ the
          25.th of March last did very ungenerously and basely Runaway to
          the great Damage and hurt of Your petitioners his Sureties
          Whereupon your Petitioners sent a great many hue and crys after
          the said Keate and one of your petitioners hearing which
          way he went puroned after him to Virginia and was at Considerable
          Costs and Charges besides his fateague and trouble but
          before he reacht the place where your petitioner was Informed
          he was put a Shoare on the Virginia side of Potomack River there
                                                                                           (Sailed)

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