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Provincial Court Land Records, 1744-1749
Volume 700, Page 454   View pdf image
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       mentioned One hundred Acres of Land) by Virtue of a
       Commission from Benjamin Tasker Esq.r his said Lordships
       Agent and Receiver General
6 Sides                                                            Rich.d Dorsey
       Recorded June 15.th 1748

Ex.d Maryland fs This Indenture made the 18.th day of
       June Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hundred forty
       and Eight Between William Cavenough of S.t Marys
       County Gent Grandson and Heir at Law to George
       Thompson Gent deceased late of the af.d County of the one
       part and James Smith of Trinity Mannor in the County
       af.d of the other part Witnesseth that the said William
       Cavenough for and in Consideration of the sum of the sum
       of Forty pounds Sterling Money by the said James by the
       said James Smith to him the said William Cavenough
       in hand paid the Receipt thereof he the said William Cavenough
       doth acknowledge and himself therewith Contented
       and paid hath Given Granted Bargained & Sold & by
       these presents doth Grant Bargain and Sell unto him
       the said James Smith his Heirs and Assigns for Ever
       all his the said William Cavenough Right Title and
       Interest in and unto Certain Tracts of Land lying on
       the Eastern side of Chesepeak Bay called or known
       by the name of Thompsons Islands Being all the
       Island or Broken Lands or Hammucks of Wood Lands
       lying in the Marshes Lying on the Eastern side of Chesepeak
       Bay Between the Straits of the said Bay and
       Transquaking Bay of and the middle Straits of the
       said Bays Running by a Parcell of Islands called
       Kedgers Islands Excepting the Islands of Thomas Courtney
       and Thomas Tayler on the South & East with Kedgers
       Islands & the Eastern Bay Containing by Estimation
       five hundred Acres more or less as by Patent bearing
       date August the Twenty third Sixteen hundred Seventy
                                                                            (Two)


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