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401) and Henry Young did settle and some Cultivations in three or four Different Settlements lying Contiguous together without making any Rights thereto by means whereof the Common Warrant could not Effect the same he therefore Humbly prayed upon Surrendering up the Common Warrant af.d he might have a S^p^ecial Warrant for that Quantity in lieu thereof to Effect & Secure the same & that on return of a Certificate of Survey thereof he complying with all Requisites Usual in such Cases might have his Lordship's Grant issued unto him thereon, which was Granted him & accordingly a Warrant on the fifteenth day of September seventeen Hundred & forty two unto him for that Purpose did issue, But the said Warrant not being Executed within the time therein Limitted it was on the twelfth day of August seventeen Hundred and forty six renewed and Continued in force for six Months longer from that date In Pursuance whereof it is Certifyed into our Land Office that there is surveyed and laid out for and in the Name of him the said William Cumming Esq.r six Hundred and sixty eight Acres of Vacant Land, one Hundred and fifty eight acres whereof Rights were made good at the time of Granting said Warrant and for the Remaining five Hundred & eighteen Acres the said William Cumming has paid and Satisfyed unto Benjamin Tasker Esq.r our Present Agent and Receiver General for our use as well the Sum of Twenty five Pounds eighteen Shillings Sterling Caution for the said Vacancy as the Sum of ten Shillings Sterling for some Improvements mentioned to be made thereon according to Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore our Grandfather of Noble Memory his Instructions to Charles Carroll Esq.r his then Agent Bearing date at London the Twelfth day of September seventeen Hundred and Twelve and Registred in our Secretarys Office of our said Province Together with a Paragraph of our Instructions bearing date at London the (Fifteenth) |
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