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817 (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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