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Archives of Maryland, Volume 51, Page 39; Liber C D, (fol. 37)
Samuell Bolton maketh oath that Walter Storey in Octobr 1667 did acknowledge he had left in Good debts by notes taken in his own name in Maryland &ca three hundred hogsheads of Tobacco whereof three Quarter part did belong to the account and were the proper Goods of John Long of London merchant, and that the other quartr part did belong to the said Walter Story which were the proceeds of a parcell of Goods wch the Said Joh nLong Consigned him in the Ship called the Golden fortune Capt Peerce Commander in the year 1665 and wch he the Said Walter Story then acknowl edged he had Received Sam: Bolton Jurat 17.° die Octobris 1668 Coram me Magro in Canc. Rich: Procter
Archives of Maryland, Assembly Proceedings, February 1674/5. Volume 2, Page 459, Liber L. H., Journal original, [p. 92]
Acts made att a Generall Assembly held att the Citty of St Maries the 12th day of ffebruary in the three and fortieth yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &ca Annoq Domini 1674
The Honoble Charles Calvert Gouernour To the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary in his two houses of Generall Assembly The humble Peticon of John Long of the Citty of London Marchant Humbly Sheweth That your Peticoner in the year of our Lord 1672 obteined a decree in your Lordships high Court of Chancery against Henry Bonner & Elizabeth his wife the Relict & Administratrix of one Walter Story deceased for two hundred forty Eight pounds eight shillings and seven pence Lawfull money of England they the said Henry & Elizabeth in Consideracon of Eleven thousand two hundred pounds of Tobacco in hand paid them by Thomas Notley gentleman Attorney of your Peticoner by way of discount for and towards part of payment of the said Sume of two hundred forty Eight pounds Eight shillings and seven pence did by Indenture of lease duely Executed under their hands and Seales bearing date the Thirtieth day of January in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy two demise grant Sett & to farme Lett unto the said Thomas Notley as Attorney of and in trust for you rpeticoner all that tract or parcell of Land Called by the name of Wal terStoryes land Iyeing in Charles County in Potomack River Conteyning b yEstimacon one hundred seventy five Acres then in the possession of th esaid Henry Bonner & Elizabeth his wife To hold the same to him the sa idThomas Notley his Executors administrators or assignes in trust as aforesaid for and dureing the full end & tearme of fourteene yeares from thence next ensueing fully to be Compleat & ended as by the said Indenture may more att large appear And Your Peticoners further sheweth that the said Walter Story deceased left Issue Walter Story an Infant who att the time of makeing of the said lease about the age of seven yeares and then under the guardianship of the said Henry & Elizabeth and will not arrive to his full age of one and twenty yeares untill such time as the said Lease be Expired But being now almost arrived to the age as he may be Capable to Choose his own Guardian he threatneth to make Choice of another Guardian and as Heire to his father to Call in question the said Lease & damm the same now forasmuch as the said lease was made towards part of Satisfaccon of the said debt which was the propper debt of the said Walter Story deceased and for to redeem the bodyes of the said Henr y& Elizabeth out of Prison and was but to Continue dureing the Nonage o fthe said Walter Story the younger Your Peticoner humbly prayes the sa memay be by an act of this present Generall Assembly ratifyed and Confirmed to him the said Thomas Notley his Executors administrators or assignes (in trust as aforesaid) dureing the Continuance of the said Terme ,And Bee itt therefore Enacted by the Right Honble the Lord Proprietar yby and with the advice and Consent of the upper and lower houses of t hispresent Generall Assembly and the Authority thereof that the said L easebe Ratifyed & Confirmed to all intents and purposes according to t heTennor & true meaning thereof And that the said Thomas Notley his Executors administrators or assignes shall and may quiettly & peaceably have hold occupy and possesse & Injoy the said land and premisses durein gthe Continuance of the Residue of the said Terme of fourteen Yeares ettto come & Vnexpired against the said Walter Story the Younger or hi sheires or any Claiming by form or vnder him them or any of them
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