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(75) mare and foale by her side which the judge Testamentary doth hereby Order him as the Only reward of his paines and care taken in manageing the said Estate And doth further Order him to deteine out of the Cropp of tobacco now made the ballance of the accompt as it stands rectified and allowed by the said judge vizt eleven hundred eighty three pounds of tobacco together with two thousand five hundred fifty three by the said Executor Which being read & heard it is this day to wit the thirtenth day of October in the 43.th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom 1674 considered by the court here that execution be granted according to the abovesaid Order Cæcilius &c To the Sheriff of Somersett County Sendeth Greeting Whereas upon the ninetenth day of January 1663 a conditionall warrant for one thousand acres of land issued from the Leiutenat Gen.ll unto George Naseworthy of Nansemond in James River in the Colony of Virginia Gent to lay out the same for him in any part of this Province provided he should make good rights for the same within twelve months next ensueing the date of the said Conditionall warrant and in pursuance thereof the said George Naseworthy had one thousand acres of land laid out for him in Manokin River called Naseworthyes Choice lyeing on the south side of Manokin River and whereas the said George Naseworthy never made good rights for the same according to the tenor of the said warrant so granted to him as aforesaid whereby the said Land is become escheated and for that W.m Thompson Gent without any recitall or mentioning of the said Conditionall warr.t of the said Naseworthy hath by virtue of a patent surreptitiously Obtained from his Lopp under the Great Seale of this province beareing date the first of October in the 40.th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c by him or his assignes entred into and upon five hundred acres part of the premisses and whereas also Thomas Jones of his said County Gent by assignm.t of the said Naseworthy hath also procured Patent for the said one thousand acres of land formerly surveyed for the said Naseworthy dated the first of October in the 41.th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c to his Lopps great prejudice and disinherizon of him and his heirs of the premisses as it is said and that his Lopp may have speedy right and justice in and concerning the same and that all and singular the said Letters Patents aswell to him the said W.m Thompson as the said letters patents to him the said Thomas Jones so as aforesaid granted may be revoked and adnulled and the said lands into his Lopps hands as his right may be seized and the said W.m and Thomas and all the Tenants and Occupyers thereof from the possession may be amoved doe Comand the said Sheriff that by good and lawfull men of his Bailiwick he make knowne and give warning to the said W.m Thompson and Thomas Jones and all other the Tenants and Occuppyers of the said land that they be before his Lopp in his Chancery the ninth day of February next to shew cause what for his Lopp or themselves they have or can say wherefore the said letters patents of the aforesaid land or any part or parcell thereof ought not to be revoked and adnulled and the record and records thereof cancelled and made void and the same into his Lopps hands be seized and further to doe & receive what the said Court shall doe or grant to be done in this behalfe & that he then retorne to his Lopps justices how he hath executed this writ Wittnes &c the 30.th December in the 43.th yeare &c 1674 |
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