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705 On the same day also personally appeared before us Sarah Beall wife to the said Benjamin Beall who being privately Examined by us apart from and out of the Hearing of her said Husband did Declare that she Voluntarily and of her own free will and without being induced thereto by fear or Threats of or ill Usage from her said Husband or fear of his Displeasure released her Dower in and to the Lands within mentioned and acknowledged the same to be the Right and Estate of the said Ninian Beall son of Ninian Jun.r according to the Act of Assembly for such Cases made and Provided Taken and acknowledged the Date and Year above Written before us Jos.a Beall Chrn.r Lowndes Received of Ninian Beall the Sum of Eight Shillings and Eleven pence Sterling for the use of Lord Baltimore it being the Alienation Money on the within Land by Virtue of a Commission from John Morton Jordan his said Lordships Agent and receiver general 10½ Sides J Brice Recorded 12.th April 1770 X.d This Indenture made the twelfth day of April in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Seventy Between Catherine Griffith of Ann Arundel County widow formerly Catharine Howard Daughter and Devisee of John Howard formerly of Ann Arundel County deceased of the one part & Orlando Griffith of Ann Arundel County Gentleman son of the aforesaid Catharine Griffith of the other part Whereas in April Provincial Court seventeen hundred and seventy a common Recovery with Single Voucher was had and suffered and is intended to be fully perfected and Executed by Writ of Habere facias Seisinam wherein the aforesaid Orlando Griffith is Plaintiff or Demandant & the afsd Catherine Griffith is Tenant or Defendant of and for all that Parcel of Land lying and being in Ann Arundel County aforesaid being part of a Tract of Land called Howards Luck which is Contained within the following Boundaries Lines Courses and Distances to wit Begining at the beginning Tree of the said whole Tract called Howards Luck the same being a bounded Hickory Standing on the North side of Patuxent River being a bounded Tree of Cap.t John Hammonds and running up and with the said River South Sixty two Degrees west Ninety nine Perches to a bounded white walnutt Tree on the South side of the River then South four degrees East Sixteen Perches then South Twenty four degrees East Ten Perches then South forty seven degrees West Twelve Perches then South fifty three degrees East Thirty four Perches to a bounded White Oak then North Eighty three degrees East Seventy two Perches to a bounded Hickory by the River and on the North side the River then over the said River South twenty three degrees East fifty Perches then Bounding on the South side of the said River running down South Six Degrees East Thirty six Perches then South forty seven degrees East Nineteen Perches then North sixty degrees East Twenty Perches then North seven degrees West Nineteen Perches then North Nineteen Degrees West Twenty two Perches then North forty four degrees East fourteen Perches to a bounded Hickory it being a bound Tree of Major Henry Ridgely's standing on the River side then running into the Woods with the said Ridgelys Line North Seventeen degrees East forty six Perches to a bound White Oak of the said Ridgelys then North Seventy Degrees West Twenty four Perches (to) |
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1765-1770
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