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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 817   View pdf image
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       (More or less) together with the appurtinances thereunto belonging or in
       anywise appertaining which said Thomas Knighton the Younger for the
       Consideration afd sell the same to this Defend.t To have and to hold the same
       unto him his heires and assignes to the only proper use and behoof of him the said
       Christopher Vernon (this Defend.t) his heires and assignes for ever and to None
       other Use Intent and purpose whatsoever as by the said Deed among other
       things together with the plott and Resurvey thereof according to a late Act of
       Assembly for ascertaining the bounds bounds thereof (in the year of our Lord
       1703 by Virtue of a Warrant to Thomas Larkin her Majestys Survey.r before
       John Gresham then Sherriff of the said County of Ann Arundell & by a
       Jury of Twelve Lawfull men duely sworne (to which said Deed plott ^&^ Resurvey
       for more Certainty thereof this Defend.t Referreth himself) may appear and
       which do all agree with the Ancient Certificate and patent thereof bearing
       date on or about the Year 1651 according to the best Information this Defd.t
       hath had & Collected in the premises  And this Defend.t saith he hath been
       Informed that the said Hall in or about the Year 1680 Near thirty Years agoe
       after the takeing up of Gadhill and that he hold the same to the said
       Knighton y.e Father under the pretence the same was Clear and adjoyning to
       Marshes Seat and that for warranting and secureing thereof to the said Knighton
       the said Hall gave bond for sixty thousand pounds of Tob.o about the
       Year of our Lord 1681 whereas in Truth most or all of the said pretended  
       Tract of Land is Comprehended and Concluded within the Ancient bounds
       of Marshes Seat the Towne or Marshes Land and Kickquotan Choice and
       there is really no such Land as Gadshill as doth appear by the Severall
       pattents and plotts thereof so that the pretended Tract of Land called Gadshill
       was taken up by the Complain.t either through his Mistake or for want of
       skill or on purpose to deceive the said Knighton to whom he sold the
       same in a very short time after the same was so pattented who then not
       knowing the truth thereof might devise the same by his will as is sett forth by the
       Compl.t in his said Bill (if any such appears) for that the said Knighton within
       some few years afterwards went to England and there dyed and this defend.t
                                                                                                       (saith


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