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Provincial Court Land Records, 1770-1774
Volume 726, Page 716   View pdf image
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                            Mem.d The Plaintiff recovered against the Defendants as well the Sum of One
                   Seal of the     Thousand and Twenty two pounds Seven Shillings and One penny
                   Provincial      Sterling certain Damages as also the sums of Three Shillings Current
                      Court         Money and Seven Hundred and Seventy pounds and one Half
                                        of Tobacco Costs of Suit The Plaintiffs releasing such payments
       as Shall be made appear (to be made by the Defendants to Mess.rs William Plumbstead
       and Joseph Turner of Philadelphia Merchants the Plaintiffs Attorneys in fact &
       which do not appear in the Plaintiffs Account  In Testimony whereof I have hereto
       Affixed the Seal od the said Court this 23.rd day of Decem.r 1762
15 Sides
                                                                                              Reverdy Ghiselin Cl
                Recorded the 1.st day of Sep.r 1774


Ex.d
       Maryland to wit
                                     This Indenture made the twentieth Day of May in the
       Year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy four Between William Bernard of the Colony of
       Virginia Esquire of the one Part and Henry Holland half Moon Street Piccadelly Builder and Mess.rs
       William Powell & Sons Ironmongers of the other Part  Whereas John Morton Jordan Esquire late of the
       City of Annapolis deceased at the Time of his Death was possed of two Acres and one hundred and
       thirty six square Feet Perches of Land with the Buildings and Improvements thereon lying and
       being in the City of Annapolis which the said John Morton Jordan purchased of a certain Daniel
       Wolstenholme and which by his last Will and Testament he directed to be sold provide a Sum
       not less than fifteen hundred Pounds Sterling over and above all such Sum or Sums of
       Money as the said John Morton Jordan in his Life had or his Executors or Administrators
       after his Death should pay and advance to a certain Joseph Horatio Anderson for erecting
       a Brick Dwelling House thereon be got for the same and thereof constituted and appointed
       William Hamersly and Perigrine Tilghman Executors who renounced the said Executorship
       and Letters of Administration with the said Will thereunto annexed hath been
       granted to a certain Reubin Merryweather of Ann Arundel County by Reason
       whereof the Directions of the said Will could not be complied with and carried
       into Execution respecting the Sale of the Lands and Premisses aforesaid  And Whereas
       a certain Dorothy Jordan Widow of John Morton Jordan aforesaid having given
       a Power of Attorney to the aforesaid William Bernard to settle transmit and Manage
       the Estate and Affairs of the said John Morton Jordan as well on her own Behalf as
       on the Part and Behalf of her Son John Nesbitt Jordan to whom the said
       Dorothy is appointed Guardian by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
       And Whereas ^upon^ by the Application of the said William Bernard an Act of
                                                                                                             (Assembly)


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