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248) to be found) there appeares to be seaverall mistakes in y.e misnameing the seaverall Courses of the said land soe that the said Francis Anketill Deed had Little or noe Land left of the said five hundred Acres according to the bounds of the said Pattent Of w.ch Ralph Elston of Talbott County aforesaid takeing advantage and Knowing the said Mistakes to be made in the Entring upon Record the said Originall Certificate Did by vertue of a Comon warrant to him granted take up and had surveyed for and in the Name of him the said Ralph Elston the said Tract of land Called Anketill or a greate part thereof and hath surreptitiously obtained from the said Lord Prop.ry a pattent for the same under the greate seale of this Province Beareing date the Twenty seaventh day of June Anno Dom 1679 Calling it by the Name of Byldon Contrary to right noe Comon Warrant or other warrant being able to Affect the same Itt haveing beene surveyed and pattented in the Name of the said Francis Anketill as aforesaid To the greate Damage of Francis Anketill sonn and heire of the said Francis Anketill dec.d As to the Lord Prop.ry and his Council hath been sett forth And Whereas his said Lordspp the Lord Prop.ry formerly granted unto the said Francis Anketill a warrant of resurvey Directed to the said William Coursey Comanding him to lay out the said Land according to the former survey by him made as aforesaid and to make oath of such his Survey that it should be according to the former Survey by him made as aforesaid All wch is by the said William Coursey done and performed as by a Certificate and Affidavit und.r the hand of the said William Coursey Duely Sworne unto Doth and may appeare Itt was therefore Comanded the said sheriffe that by good and Lawfull men of his baliwick hee make Knowne unto the said Ralph Elston that hee be and appeare here the fourth day of October in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the said Lord Prop.ry &c Annoq Dom 1681 To shew Cause (If any he have why the said Pattent by him surreptitiously obtained as aforesaid should not be vacated and made Voyd upon Record On wch said fourth day of October aforesaid Thomas Vaughan sheriffe of the county aforesaid that by good and Lawfull men of his baliwick he hath made knowne to the said Ralph Elston to be and appeare here as by the said writ he was comanded wch being read and heard It is Ordered by the Court here that the writs of Scire facias aforesaid abate |
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