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Trustee for and on behalf of the Crown did on or about the first day
of May in the year of our Lord God One thousand Seven hundred
and fourteen preferr his bill in the Court of Chancery of this province
of Maryland ag^t Marg^t Browne widow and Executrix of the Last
will and Testam^t of the said Peregrine Browne, and Joseph Brown
merchant, the Son and heir of the said Peregrine Browne for
the recovery of the said Money, and in order to Subject the Lands
Tenements & hereditaments of the said Peregrine Brown in this
Province to the Payment thereof, on which bill it was farr proceeded
in the af^d Court of Chancery that A decree was made with the Con-
sent of the af^d Joseph Brown on or about the ninth day of October
in the year of our Lord God One thousand Seven hundred and
Sixteen, for the Sale of the af^d Severall tracts or Parcell of Land
among other Lands belonging to the said Peregrine Browne, towards
Satisfying and Paying the aforesaid debt to the Crowne, and to the
end the Sale should be made to the best advantage it was ordered
by the said Decree that publick Notice should be given and that the
said Sale should begin the twenty eighth day of Aprill then next
ensueing in pursuance of which Decree the af^d Severall Tracts or
Parcells of Land Called Chilberry, the Addicon, Watersneck, Bat-
chelors hope, and Batchelors Addicon, Containing in the whole
Twelve hundred acres of Land, were afterwards on or about the
Eight day of June in the year of our Lord God One thousand Seven
hundred and Seventeen at a Publick Sale or Auction at the Citty of
Annapolis, Sold to James Phillips of Baltemore County Gentleman
his heirs and assignes by the said Maurice Birchfield Esq^r on behalfe
of the Crowne and by the said Joseph Browne for himselfe And
whereas the said James Phillips by his humble petition to this Gen-
erall Assembly has set forth that the afores^d deed from the said
John Cary, John Burridge and George Cole to the said Peregrine
Browne of the three fourths of the said Severall tracts of land has not
been duly acknowledged & recorded according to the directions of
the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided Which act is
Entituled An Act for quieting Possessions inrolling Conveyances
and Secureing the Estates of purchasers to Supply which defect he
has humbly prayed that it may be Enacted. Be it therefore Enacted

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by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietarie by and with the
advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the Upper and
Lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same, that it
shall and may be Lawfull (on paying the fine for Alienation for the
said three fourths of the said Twelve hundred Acres to the Lord
Proprietarie or his Agent) for the said recited deed to be recorded
in the Land Records in Baltemore County at any time within Twelve
months from the End of this present Session of Assembly, and that
the same deed when recorded as af^d and Every part thereof Shall be as
Good and Valid in Law to all intents Constructions & purposes and

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