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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 120   View pdf image
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       His Lordpp the Lord Prop.ry of this Province sending his writt of
       scire facias to the sheriffe of S.t Maryes County which followeth in
       these words viz.t Whereas we have made inspection into the
       Records of one said Province of Maryland in our Secrys Office
       remaining wherein itt appeareth amongst other things that
       Cæcilius our late Father of noble memory the Eighteenth day
       of July one thousand six hundred forty two under the great
       seale of our said Province did Grant unto Thomas Gerard
       gentl a tract of land bounding upon the south with
       Potomeck River upon the West with Wiccocomico
       River upon the East with S.t Clements Bay & upon the
       North with a right line drawn from a Creek on Wiccocomico
       River called Gerards Creeke South Easterly to the nearest
       branch of a Creek in S.t Clements bay called the fresh Creeke
       And likewise three Islands the one in Potowmock River
       called S.t Clements the second in the mouth of S.t Clements
       bay called S.t Katherines Island & the third lying neer unto it
       in the mouth of Wiccocomico River called S.t Margaretts
       Island the said tract of land & Islands containing six thousand
       acres in the whole or thereabouts Upon such consideracon
       & under such rents & provisoes as in the same is expressed
       & reserved  And for that upon Informacon that the said
       Grant to the said Thomas Gerard granted in the lines thereof
       doth not comprehend above foure hundred acres of land but
       that the lines of the said land are cleerly mistaken & yett
       under colour the said Thomas Gerard in his life tyme & those
       that claime under him since his death have hold as their
       own land a very great quantity of land by which we & our
       said Father have bin deceased of our rents for the surplusage
       lands more then the six thousand acres menconed in the
       said Patent  And we being willing that the truth of the
       p.rmisses should be fully discovered have caused the said tract
       of land to be Resurveyed & laid out a new by John Manley
       gentl deputy Survey.r hath made returne of the Resurvey
       under the hand into our said Office that the said tract of land
       containeth Eleven thousand foure hundred acres By which
       itt is evident & apparent that our said Father of noble memory
       hath bin deceided in the said Grant & that Patent for the
       same was unduely illegally & surreptitiously obtained to the
       disinherizon of us & our heyres  And the said Tho Gerard
       being deceased & the possession of the p.rmisses being in
       Justinian Gerard gentl sonn & heyre of the said Thomas decd
                                                                                     (Wee)


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