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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 244   View pdf image
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       The Lord Prop.ry
                   ag.t           Comand was given to the Sheriffe of Dorchester County
       John Hudson     that Whereas John Tench of Liverpoole in the Kingdome of
                          England Marchant by vertue of a Warrant to him granted
                    Out of Our Secretaryes Office bearing Date the sixth day of
             Time Annoq Dom One thousand six hundred seaventy foure had Layd out
       for him a parcell of Land in Dorchester County in this Province of Maryland
       Called Johns Delight for Two hundred Acres & Certifficate of Survey thereof
       Returned unto the said Office bearing date the third day of September
       Following as appeares upon Record and Whereas John Hudson late of Dorchest.r
       County Planter deceased Attorney to the said John Tench intending fraudulently
       to deceive the said John Tench of the said Two hundred Acres of Land Did
       in the Absence of him the said John Tench Out of this Province Cause to
       be Entred upon Record in the said Province att the foot of the s.d Certifficate
       an Assignement from him the said John Hudson as Attorney of the said Jn.o
       Tench of the said Certifficate w.th all the Lands therein Mentioned to his
       Two sonns Thomas and Joseph Hudson & Caused Pattent thereupon to
       be Drawne for the said Two hundred Acres in the name of the said Thomas
       & Joseph w.thout the Consent Privity or Knowledge of him the said John Tench
       By reason whereof the said John Tench is in Danger of being defrauded of the
       same haveing noe Remedy att Comon Lawe as by the greivous Complaint of
       the said John Tench to Us & our Counsell hath been sett forth and hath
       therefore humbly prayed Our writt of scire facias to be directed to John
       Hudson the Younger sonn of the said John Hudson the elder the p.rsent posses.r
       of the said Two hundred Acres of Land to shew Cause why the said Pattent for
       the same being in manner & forme as aforesaid surreptitiously obtained should not
       be surrendered up to be Vacated Upon Record Itt was therefore Comanded the said
       sheriffe That by good and Lawfull men of his baliwick hee make Knowne unto
       the said John Hudson the Younger That hee bee and appeare before his Lopp the
       Right Hono.ble the Lord Proprietary in his Court of Chancery the seaventeenth day
       of February in the Fifth yeare of his said Lopps Dominion &c.a Annoq Dom 1680
       wheresoever it should then be To shew Cause (if any hee have) why the Pattent soe
       surreptitiously obtained as aforesaid Ought not to be Vacated adnulled and made
       Voyd Upon Record and further to doe and receive what the said Court should
       Consid.r of in that behalfe and how hee should Execute that p.rcept that hee
       make Knowne to the said Court at the day aforesaid

       On w.ch said Fifteenth day of February aforesaid Stephen Gary Sheriffe of
       the County aforesaid made returne of the writ aforesaid  That hee had made Knowne
       to John Hudson the Younger the nineteenth day of January 1680 in the presence
       and before Thomas Hicks & John Cawsey both Freemen of his Baliwick
                                                                                                             (Afterwards


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