crae, and William Car, gentlemen, shall be, and they are hereby nominated and appointed commissioners to adjust, state, and settle, accounts of the money and tobacco so raised and levied on the inhabitants of the said parish of Truro before the said division; and that the said commissioners, or any three of them, shall, as soon as conveniently they can after the passing of this act, make a fair, just, and equitable division, as well of the original purchase money or tobacco of the said glebe, as of the money expended in the buildings and other improvements thereon, as also of the original purchase money of the church plate, and of the said fifty thousand pounds of tobacco levied for building churches in the said parish of Truro, before the said division, between the said two parishes of Truro and Fairfax, according to the number of tithables in each respective parish at the time the said division took place; and that the vestry of the said parish of Truro shall refund and pay to the vestry of the said parish of Fairfax such a proportion of the said money and tobacco as shall be so settled and adjusted by the said commissioners.

CHAP. XL.

An Act to vest certain lands whereof Rice Jones is seized in fee taille in the honourable Richard Corbin. esquire, in fee simple, and for settling slaves to be annexed to other entailed lands in lieu thereof.

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I. WHEREAS Rice Jones the elder, deceased, was Certainlands in his lifetime seized in fee of and in a valuable tract of in which land, with the appurtenances, lying in the parish of Rice Jones South Farnham, in the county of Essex, also of one fee-taille, other tract of land lying and being in the parish of vested in Christ Church, in the county of Middlesex, containing Richard Corabout eight hundred acres; and being so thereof seized, simple.. did make his last will and testament, bearing date the

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twenty third day of November, one thousand six hundred and seventy six, and therein, among other things, did devise his said lands in the county of Essex, called Nimcock Point, to his son John Jones, and the heirs of his body, and the said lands in the county of Middlesex to his son Rice Jones, and the heirs of his body, with cross remainders between the said John and Rice in case either of them died without issue, and several other limitations and remainders, as in and by the said will, remaining of record in the county court of Essex (formerly Rappahannock) may more fully appear: And after the death of the said testator, and of his said son John Jones without issue, the said Rice Jones the son entered into both the said tracts of land, and died seized thereof, leaving issue John Jones his eldest son and heir, who entered into the said lands, and died seized thereof, leaving issue three sons, Rice, John, and William, which said Rice and John are since dead without issue, and the said William is also dead, leaving issue Rice Jones his eldest son and heir, who is now seized of the said lands as tenant in fee taille, and is also possessed in his own right of the following negro slaves, viz. Jack, James, Bett, Nanny, Bett, Jenny, Peter, Beck, Rachael, Maria, mulatto Rose, Prince, black Peter, and Ben.

II. And whereas it hath been represented to this present General Assembly that it will be greatly to the advantage of the said Rice Jones the younger, and his family, if he was allowed to sell the said eight hundred acres of entailed lands, whereby he might be enabled to make a better provision for his younger children, and to settle the slaves aforesaid in lieu thereof; and the said Rice Jones hath come to an agreement to sell the said eight hundred acres to the honourable Richard Corbin, esquire, for the sum of five hundred pounds current

money.

III. And for as much as notice has been published, three Sundays successively, in the several churches of the said parish of Christ Church, in the county of Middlesex, that application would be made to this present General Assembly to dock the entail of the said eight hundred acres of land, and settle the slaves aforesaid, of greater value, to the same uses, pursuant to your majesty's instructions.

IV. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said Rice Jones and

Richard Corbin, that it may be enacted, And be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governour, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said eight hundred acres of land, so as aforesaid agreed to be sold unto the said Richard Corbin, be, and are hereby vested in the said Richard Corbin, his heirs and assigns, to the only use an behoof of the said Richard Corbin, his heirs and assigns, for ever; and that the negro slaves aforesaid, with their future increase, be, and the same are hereby annexed to the said lands in the county of Essex, and shall descend, pass, and go therewith, to the said Rice Jones, and the heirs of his body, and to such other person or persons, and for such estate and interest therein, as the said lands in the county of Middlesex would have remained, descended, and gone, by virtue of the limitations in the will of the said Rice Jones the elder, if this act had never been made.

V. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successours, and to all and every other person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and successours, other than the persons claiming under the will of the said Rice Jones the elder, all such estate, right, title, and interest, as they, every, or any of them, could or might claim if this act had never been made.

VI. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained.

CHAP. XLI.

An act to dock the entail of fifteen hundred acres of land whereof Thomas Mann Randolph, gentleman, is seized, and for settling other lands in lieu thereof to the same uses.

I. WHEREAS Ralph Wormeley, formerly of the Entail of cer County of Middlesex, esquire, deceased, by his last will tain lands V-VOL. 8.

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and testament, duly made and published, bearing date the second day of February, in the year of our Lord dolph is seiz- one thousand seven hundred, did, amongst other things, ed docked. give unto his daughter Judith Wormeley, and her heirs for ever, fifteen hundred acres of land out of his land at Manskin in Parounkey neck, and in case of her death without heirs then the said land to go to his son John Wormeley, and his heirs for ever, which said Judith Wormeley afterwards intermarried with Mann Page, of the county of Gloucester, esquire, and had issue by him a daughter named Mary, who intermarried with William Randolph of Tuckaho, in the county of Goochland, gentleman, who is since dead, leaving issue Thomas Mann Randolph, gentleman, his eldest son, who is now seized and possessed of the said fifteen hundred acres of land in fee taille, which he hath agreed to sell to Carter Eraxton, of the county of King William, gentleman.

II. And whereas the said Thomas Mann Randolph is also seized in fee simple of and in a certain tract or parcel of land commonly called and known by the name of Edgehill, containing about two thousand acres more or less, situate, lying, and being in the parish of Fredericksville, in the county of Albemarle; and it is represented to this present general assembly that it will be much more advantageous to the said Thomas Mann Randolph, and his posterity, to dock the entail of the said fifteen hundred acres of land in the county of King William, and to settle the said two thousand acres in the county of Albemarle, which is of greater value to

the same uses.

II. And for as much as notice hath been published, three Sundays successively, in the several churches of the parish of St. David's that application would be made to this present general assembly, for an Act to dock the entail of the said fifteen hundred acres of land in the said county of King Willur, and to settle the other lands above mentioned in heu thereof to the same uses, pursuant to the royal instructions.

IV. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the hamable suit of the said Thomas Mann Randolph, that it may be enacted, And be it enacted. by the Lervenant-Governour, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enactby the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the fifteen hundred acres of land in

the said county of King William shall be, and the same are hereby vested in the said Carter Braxton, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Carter Braxton, his heirs and assigns, for ever; and that the said two thousand acres of land in the said county of Albemarle shall be, and the same are hereby vested in the said Thomas Mann Randolph, and the heirs of his body; and the same shall pass in descent, remainder, and reversion, as the said fifteen hundred acres of land would have passed and descended according to the directions and limitations contained in the will aforesaid of the said Ralph Wormeley,

V. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successours, and every other person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and success ours, other than the persons claiming in descent, remainder, or reversion, under the will of the said Ralph Wormeley, all such right, title estate, interest, claim, and demand, of, in, and to the said fifteen hundred acres of land, as they or any of them could or might claim if this act had never been made.

VI. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended until his mas jesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained.

CHAP. XLII.

An Act to dock the entail of certain lands whereof John Gregg is seized, and for settling other lands and slaves to be purchased in lieu thereof to the same uses,

I. WHEREAS John Gregg, late of the county of Entail of cerPrince William, gentleman, deceased, in and by his last tain lands will and testament in writing, duly made and executed, whereof bearing date the fourteenth day of January, in the year is seized, John Gregg of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty two, docked. did, amongst other things, give and bequeath unto his son John Gregg, then an infant, and the heirs of his