Patent Record, “Mountain Tract” to John Perrin (1763); Allegany Co., MD

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                              Patent Record
                    “Mountain Tract” to John Perrin
                Frederick (now Allegany) County, Maryland
                 Description: BC & GS 23, Pages 189-190
          Maryland State Archives No.: S11-123  Location: 1/23/3/33
                             April 28, 1763


Mr. John Perrins }	Frederick £- Know Ye that Whereas   John Perrin’s of 
Frederick County by his
his Patent 32 acres}            Humble Petition	to our Agents for  Management  
of Land Affairs within this Pro -
Mountain Tract   }             vince did set forth that there was about  Five 
hundred Acres of Vacant Land lying
and being in the County aforesaid and joining Town Creek on the North West and 
South East Sides thereof  and also joining a Tract of Land called Sink hole 
Bottom in the Possession of the Petitioner Partly Cultivated by means where of 
the Petitioner conceived the same could not be taken up by a common Warrant, 
therefore humbly Prayed a Special Warrant to Effect and Secure it and that on 
return of a Certificate of such Survey be complying with all requisites usual in 
Such Cases might have our Grant issue unto him thereon which was Granted him and 
accordingly a Warrant on the thirteenth day of December Seventeen hundred and 
Sixty two unto him for  that Purpose did issue.
			
			In Pursuance whereof it is Certified into our Land Office that 
there was Surveyed and laid out for and in the Name of him the said John Perrins 
the Quantity of thirty two acres of Land for which Rights was made good at the 
time of Granting said Warrant according to Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore our 
Great Grandfather of Noble Memory his Instructions to Charles Carroll Esquire 
his then agent bearing Date at London the Twelfth day of September Seventeen 
hundred and Twelve and Registered in our Secretarys Office of our said Province 
Together with a Paragraph of our Dear father Instructions bearing 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 John Perrins 
all that Tract or Parcel of Land called Mountain Tract lying and being in the 
County aforesaid.

			Beginning at a bounded white oak standing in a little Holler 
on the East side of a small Run that runs into Murleys Run a branch of Town 
Creek and running thence North fifty four degrees West thirty Perches North five 
Degrees East Seventy five Perches South Seventy Degrees West thirty nine Perches 
South Seven Degrees West Sixty Perches South thirteen Degrees West eighty 
Perches then by a straight Line to the Beginning Tree Containing and now laid 
out for thirty two acres of Land according to the Certificate of Survey thereof 
taken and returned into our Land Office bearing Date the twenty eighth day of 
April Seventeen hundred and Sixty three and there 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 John Perrins his Heirs and 
Assigns for ever to be holden of Us and our Heirs as of our Manor of 
Conogocheige in free and common Soccage by Fealty only for all manner of 
Services. Yielding and Paying therefore yearly unto Us and our Heirs at our 
receipt at our City of Saint Marys at the two most usual Feasts in the Year Viz: 
The feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed  Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the 
Arch Angel by even and equal Portions the Rent of One Shill-


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                                Patent Record
                        “Mountain Tract” to John Perrin
                    Frederick (now Allegany) County, Maryland
                     Description: BC & GS 23, Pages 189-190
           Maryland State Archives No.: S11-123  Location: 1/23/3/33
                               April 28, 1763
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ing and three Pence half Penny Sterling in Silver or Gold and for a fine upon 
every Alienation of the said Land or any  Part or Parcel thereof one whole years 
Rent in Silver or Gold or the full Value thereof in such Commodities 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 That if the said sum for a fine for Alienation shall 
not be paid unto Us and our Heirs or Such Officer or Officers aforesaid before 
such Alienation and the said Alienation entered upon Record either in the 
Provincial Court or County Court where the same Parcel of Land lieth within one 
Month next after such alienation then the said Alienation shall be void and of 
no Effect.

			Given under our Great Seal of our Said Province of Maryland 
this twenty Eighth day of April Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and Sixty three. 
Witness our trusty and well beloved Horatio Sharpe Esquire Lieutenant General 
and Chief Governor of our said Province of Maryland and Chancellor and Keeper of 
the Great Seal thereof ~		



                              Horatioo { SEAL } Sharpe





Note: Spelling, punctuation and grammar have not been altered in this 
transcription from the original document.

Free soccage: A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate 
service; where the services are not only certain, but honorable.
Fealty: a pledge of allegiance from one person to another, typically by means of  
an oath made upon a religious object, such as a Bible.


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