Land Affairs within this Province, did set forth that he has due unto him One hundred Acres of Land by Virtue of an Assignment of that quantity from Major George Gale, of said County, part of a Warrant for Five hundred and Eighty-six Acres Granted him the said Gale the fourteenth day of May Last; and foreasmuch as the Petitioner has discovered a quantity of One hundred Acres of Vacant Land lying and being in the County aforesaid, near the head of Wiccocomoco, Whereon a Certain Hugh Caldwell lately Lived, partly Cultivated, by means whereof the Petitioner Conceived the same Could not be taken tip by a Common Warrant, he therefore Prayed a Special Warrant to Effect and secure the same, and tat upon Return of a Certificate of such Survey, he Complying with all Other Requisites Usual in such Cases, might have Our Grant Issue unto him thereon, which was Granted him, and Accordingly a Warrant, on the fourth day of July, Seventeen hundred and forty, 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 him the said Thomas Hearne the quantity of One Hundred Acres of Land, rights for which were made Good at the time of Granting said Warrant, and he has since paid and satisfied unto Edward Lloyd, Esquire, Our Present Agent and Receiver-General, for Our use, the sum of Seven Pounds Sterling, for some Improvements, Mention to be made on said Land; According to Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore, our Great Grand Father of Noble Memory, his Instructions to Chas. Carroll, Esquire, his then Agent, bearing date at London, the Twelfth day of September. Seventeen hundred and Twelve, and Registered in our Secretary’s Office of our said Province; Together with a Paragraph of our Dear Father’s 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 Thomas Hearne all that Tract or Parcel of Land Called Hearne’s Venture, Situate, Lying, and being in Somerset County, back in the Woods from the Wiccocomoco River anci near the Head of a Branch of the aforesaid River Commonly Called Chaldwell's Branch, bounded as followeth: Beginning at a Marked Red Oak standing in a Glade about half a Mile to the Eastward of the aforesaid Branch and About an hundred Yards to the Northward of a Brickkill, thence with a line drawn South seventy-two degrees and a half West Forty perches, thence

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