Appendix. 517

IV

ESTATE OF VALERIUS DUCHART, AN UN-
NATURALIZED FRENCH ALIEN

[PETITIONS OF DANIEL CHAMIER, THE EXECUTOR AND
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF VALERIUS DUCHART,
APRIL 20, 1757, TO THE GOVERNOR AND GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY, PRAYING RELIEF FOR THE WIDOW AND CHILDREN

OF DUCHART, WHOSE LANDS, AS AN UNNATURALIZED
ALIEN, HAVE BEEN ESCHEATED.]

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire, Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland &c. &c. &c
And To the Honourable Members of the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly of the said Province
The Humble Petition of Daniel Chamier Executor and Ad-
ministrator to the Estate and Effects of Valerius Duchart deceased,
On Behalf of the Widow of the said Duchart and of his Seven
Children

Most Humbly Sheweth
That the said Valerius Duchart was a Native of the City of
Strasburg in the Principality of Lorrain and Kingdom of France
and a Protestant; and did by the way of Holland and England embark
for New York and on or about the Latter Part of the Year One
thousand seven hundred and fifty three or Commencement of the
Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty four arrived into this
Province without any part of his Family; And in the Month of April
One thousand seven hundred and fifty four Did rent of and from
Doctor William Lyon of Baltimore Town a Certain Plantation to him
belonging in Baltimore County, where he exercised the Business of
an Ordinary Keeper, until he could clear and prepare a proper Plan-
tation for the Reception of himself and ffamily.
That on or about the latter Part of the said Month of April of
the same Year he did purchase of and from M.^r Thomas Harrison
of Baltimore Town a certain Tract of Land containing Four hun-
dred Acres being Part of a larger Tract known by the Name of
Harrisons Meadow in Baltimore County, and that he then paid the
said Harrison for the aforementioned Purchase the Sum of One
hundred and Twenty Pounds Currency and procured a proper Con-
veyance for the Same, and the Said Duchart during his keeping the
said Ordinary and tending the Plantation so rented at a great Expence
and Charge Did in the Space of less than two Years clear near One
hundred Acres of the said Tract so purchased, built three convenient
Messuages or Tenements; Sink a well of great Depth thereon, &
Stone great Part thereof, and otherwise greatly Improve the said
Tract of Land by Fencing, Draining &c.

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