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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 812   View pdf image
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       John Hall                   This cause standing for Tryal and
             v                         the partys and their att.rys being ready
       Christopher Vernon   for tryall the bill and ans.r with the
                                    Depositions both sides were read the
                                  Bill and Answ.r follows Viz.t


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       To his Excy John Seymour Esq Cap.t Generall & Govern.r in
       Cheif of the Province of Maryland and keeper of the Great
       Seale thereof

             In all humble Manner Complaining sheweth unto your
       Excy that your dayly orat.r John Hall of Baltemore County
       many years since being possessed in fee of a Certain Tract
       of Land lying near Herring Creek in Ann Arundell County called
       Marshes Seat containing 150 Acres according to the survey
       Expressed in the originall patent & beleiveing there was some
       Vacant Land of which he was likewise Possest & supposed
       to be within the bounds of the said Patent thô not really
       Included therein and also that there was a pretty Quantity
       of Vacant Land Adjacent and Contiguous to the Said Tract
       of Marshes Seat he procured Lawfull warrants made
       survey and had the Lord proprietors Grant for the same
       by the Name of Gadshill Containing one hundred & forty acres
       more or less and being sometime before the Year of our Lord
       god 1682 Desireous to goe and live in Baltemore County
       for the Conveniency of Range and the oppertunity of takeing
       up fresh woodland Ground your said orat.r sold both the said
       Two Tracts afd Called Marshes Seat and Gadd Hill To a Certain
       Thomas Knighton then of Ann Arundell County Gent.n & his
       heires for ever which said Thomas Knighton by his last will &
       Testament remaining upon Recordin the Comissary Generalls
       Office for probatt of Wills and now Confirmed by An Act of the
       Gen.ll Assembly of this province in full force and [illegible]


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