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(55) wittnesse named John Claver who being examined by Us did take his Corporall Oath that two negroe servants to the said Wright that is to say One man named Robert and one woman called Mary did dye upon the plantation in the yeare 1669 And that the said Complt did not appeare untill the 24.th of the same month of March at which day wee thought it convenient to meete againe at the house of the said Larkin And the said Complainant by her Attorny Kenlm Cheseldyn did then and there alleadge before Us that the said Complt being arrested for want of which she was altogether uncapable to make her defence in the premisses and that the said def.t Thomas Howell had all his papers and accompts ready But not knowing any occasion he should have for evidences to prove his accompts without which wee could not proceed any further in the premisses This is Our Report in the premisses in Obedience to your Order aforesaid is Certified under our hands and seales this eight day of April in the two and fortith yeare of the Dominion of the Right Hon.ble Cæcilius &c Annoq Dom 1674 Which being read and heard it is this day Ordered That the first administrators accompt fully and wholly before the Comissary Gen.ll and Cheife judge for probate of Wills and granting administration and that the evidence upon record be good evidence to the said Cheife Judge and upon examination of the accompt to act and doe as the Act for preservation of Orphans estates provideth Tobias Wells Complt ag.t John Wright et ex def.t Jonathan Hopkinson Compl ag.t John Wright & Rich Snowden these foure causes continued untill next Court John Edmundson Compl ag.t John Clements Tho Vaughan & Jn.o Ingram def.ts Thomas Sprigg Compl ag.t Tho Truman & Nath Truman Memorandum it was Comanded the sheriff of S.t Maries County That whereas the Right Hon.ble the Lord Proprietary of this Province &c did by his letters patent under the great seale of this province beareing date the seventh day of September in the yeare of Our Lord 1668 for the considerations therein named grant unto Thomas Gerard Esq a parcell of land called the medowes lyeing at the head of Wiccocomocco River in S.t Maries County Conteining and then laid out for foure hundred acres more or lesse as by the said Grant relation being thereunto had more fully and more at large it doth and may appeare Now for that his Lopp had long before that time reserved for his Owne Use a parcell of land in S.t Maries County called Choptin Mannour of which the said parcell of land is part and the said Thomas Gerard being sensible thereof fraudulently procured his Lopps Grant aforesaid to the disinherizon of his Lopp and his heirs of the premisses and the said Thomas Gerard being since deceased That by good and lawfull men of his Bailliwick he make knowne and give warning unto Thomas Gerard son of the said deceased who claimeth the same under him that he be before his said Lopp in his Court of Chancery this fourtenth day of April to shew cause of any he have where since the said Letters patent of the said land as aforesaid made ought not to be revoaked and adnulled and the same into his Lopps hands be seized and to doe and receive what his lopps said Court shall doe or grant to be done in this behalfe And how he shall execute this |
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