Andrew Dorsey

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 Charles   Know ye that for and in Consideration that Andrew Dorsey of Baltimore County in our said Province of Maryland hath due unto him fifty Acres of Land within our said Province of Maryland by virtue of a warrant for that quantity granted him the twenty seventh Day of September Seventeen hundred and forty eight as appeared in our Land Office and upon such Conditions and Terms as are Expressed in our Condition of Plantation of our said province bearing Date the fifth Day of April Sixteen hundred and eighty-four and remaining upon record in our said province, Together with such Allocations as in them are made by our further Conditions bearing date to the fourth day of December Sixteen hundred ninety six Together also with the Allocations made by our Instruction bearing Date at London the twelth Day of September Seventeen hundred and twelve and registered in our Secretarys Office of our said Province Together with a paragraph of our Instrutions Caring Date at London the Fifteenth Day of December Seventeen hundred and thirty eight and Registered in our Land Office We do therefore hereby grant unto him the said Andrew Dorsey all that Tract or parcel of Land called Dorseys Prospect lying in the County aforesaid Beginning at the three bounded Oaks standing at the mouth of a small draft at the head of the White Marshes which descend into Deleware falls and running thus North thirty one degrees West thirty six perches South seventy five degrees west Twenty six perches South twenty one degrees West one hundred and forty five perches South seventeen degrees East sixty perches and thus with a Straight line to the Beginning Continuing and laid out for fifty acres more or less according to the Certificate of Survey thereof taken and returned into our Land bearing Date the twenty fifth Day March Seventeen hundred and forty nine and the remaining together with all Rights Profits Benefits and Privileges thereunto belonging Royal Mines Excepted To have and to hold the same unto him the said Andrew Dorsey his Heirs and Assigns forever to beholdon of us and our Heirs as of our manor of Baltimore in free and common Sociass?? By loyalty only for all manner of Services yielding and paying therefore yearly unto us and our Heirs at our Receipt at our City of St. Marys at the two most usual Feasts in the year Viz.  The Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed virgin Mary and St. Michael the Arch Angel by even and equal portion the Rent of Two Shillings Sterling in Silver or Gold and for a upon every Alienation of the said Land or any part or parcel thereof one whole year Rent in Silver or Gold on the full value thereof in such Commondities as we and our Heirs or such Officer or officers as shall be appointed by us and our Heirs from time to time to collect and receive the same shall accept in discharge thereof at the Choice of us and our Heirs or such officer or Officers aforesaid Provided the if the said Sum for a Time for Alienation shall not be paid unto us and our Heirs or such Officer or Officers aforesaid before such Alienation and the said Alienation and or upon record either in the provincial Court or County Court where the same parcel of Land hath within one month next after such Alienation than th paid Alienation shall be void and of no Effect Given under our Great Seal of our said province of Maryland this twenty fifth Day of March Annos Don Seventeen hundred and forty nine Witness our Trusty & well Beloved Samuel Ogle Esq. Lieutenant General and chief Govornor of our said province of Maryland Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal thereof.