Volume 701, Page 12 View pdf image |
12) Assignments or other Acts or Writings as shall be Deemed necessary and sufficient to Convey and Assure the said Lands and Negroes to the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof which Assignment or Assignments or other Acts or Writings Signed Sealed & Executed by the said Benedict Calvert either in his own Name or in the Name and Behalf of the said Lord Baltimore shall be as sufficient as if the same had been Signed Sealed and Executed by the said Lord Baltimore in Person In Witness whereof he the said Lord Baltimore hath hereunto Sett his Hand and Seal the first day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty Eight And in the twenty Second of the Reign of George the Second King of Great Britain and so forth Baltimore Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Ja.s Creagh Anth Beck At the foot of the aforegoing Power of Attorney was On Razolini thus written Viz.t On the Eighth day of Novem.r 1749 before me the Subscriber one of his Lordships Provincial Justices Personally appeared James Creagh one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within and above Power of Attorney and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he was present and did see the Right Honble the Lord Baltimore Sign Seal and as his Act and Deed deliver the within and above Power of Attorney to and for the several Uses and purposes therein mentioned And that at the same time Anthony Beck and Onorio Razolini 5 the other Subscribing Witnesses were there Present and Subscribed their Names severally thereto as Witnesses in this Deponents Presence Sworn to the day and Year and Year abovesaid before Jn.o Brice Recorded November the 8.th 1749 Ex.d To all to whom these Presents shall come Benjamin Nicholson of the Borough of Berwick upon Tweed in the Kingdom of Great Britain Brewer and Samuel Nicholson of Stockton upon Tease in the County of Durham in the same Kingdom Doctor in Physick send Greeting Whereas William Nicholson late of Ann Arundle County in the Province of Maryland Merchant Deceased Father of the said Benjamin Nicholson and Samuel Nicholson by his last Will and Testament in Writing duly Executed bearing date on or about the twenty fifth day of September which was in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Nineteen did among other things Give and Bequeath his part of a Tract of Land called Nicholsons Mannor lying in Baltimore County Containing about four Thousand two hundred Acres to his said Sons Benjamin Nicholson and Samuel Nicholson and Edward Nicholson (another of his Sons since deceased) to be Equally divided between them to them and their Heirs for Ever And did thereby further give and Bequeath unto the said Benjamin Nicholson and his Heirs for Ever one Lott lying in London Town in Ann Arundle County over against the Lott then belonging to M.r Turner Wootton Originally taken up by Cap.t Edward Burgess And Whereas the said Edward Nicholson in or about the Month of December which was in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and thirty Nine died Seised of the part or Share (of) |
||||
Volume 701, Page 12 View pdf image |
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|
An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact
mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.