Person:Bridget Seaborne (1)

22 Apr 1638 - Mrs. Mary Troughton (sic) claims land for transporting additional individuals into the Province. Names include: Winifride and Birdgett (no surnames), Ann Elton and John Sheercliffe.

Greenwell, John, New Towne, 27 Mar 1658 ; 3 Apr 1658.
To son James, ex., entire estate, except legacies to following:
To wife Bridgett, god-dau. Anna Warren, and Mr. Fitzherbert, personalty.
Wife to be in charge of estate until son afsd. comes of age; shd. sd. son die during minority, 1/3 of estate is bequested to overseers, Capt. Wm. Evans and James Langworth, and residue disposed of to pious uses, as for the relief or poor Catholie children and the like.
Test: Walter Hall, John Shirteliffe, Thomas Bankes.
[Liber P. C. R. f. 7.]

That one William Stiles of St Mary's County dec'd being in his life time Seized in his demeanse as of fee of a Certain Tract of Land and Plantation Seated on Brittons Bay in Newtown hundred in the Said County which he held by assignment from Richard Nevitt of the Same County who held the Same by Patent from the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary bearing date the Twentieth day of October 1653, he the Said William Stiles did by writing under his hand and Seale Recorded in St Marys County Court bearing date the tenth day of November 1658 Sell and make Over unto Robert Sheale of the hundred aforesaid fifty acres of Land be it more or Less being part of the Said plantation or Tract of Land of one hundred acres Whereon the Said William Stiles did then live And being divided by the aforesaid parties as followeth

Viz.t Beginning 0.272) at a marked white oake Standing near the Dividing line betwixt the Land of Mr Hammond and the aforesaid Stiles & Running west north west to Brittons bay to a marked Red oake Standing near the Bank of the Said Bay and Lying north west upon the Said Bay & then Beginning at a marked Caedar upon the Banck of the aforesaid Bay and from the Caedar to a marked Red oake Standing upon the East north East Side of a Little marsh Giving all the marsh to the above mentioned Sheale and then running from the Said Oake by the marsh East South East to another marked oake near the parallel line betwixt the said Hammond & Stiles all which land he the said William Stiles did Sell and make Over unto Robert Sheale and his heirs for Ever and did warrant the Same from all Just Claims in Law agent any person or persons whatsoever he the Said William Stiles having received a Valuable Consideration therefore as by the Said patent and writing to us now produced may more fully appear by virtue of which writing the Said Robert Sheale Entered into and became Seized and possessed of the Said fifty acres of Land and being So Seized and possessed he the Said Robert Sheale upon the 5th day of march 1662 dyed Leaving Bridgett Sheale his widow in possession thereof And the Said Jurors do upon their Oaths Say that the one hundred acres of Land is held of the manor of West St Marys under the yearly rent of two Shillings Sterling or one Bushell of Good Corn payable at Christmas and that the Said fifty acres of Land is worth by the year if the Same were to be let out now according to the Improved value over and above the Lords Rent five Bushells of Indian Corn per Annum And that Since the Death of the Said Robert Sheale the Said Bridgett Sheale his Relict held and Enjoyed the Same till Such time as She married to one Gregory Rowse and there the Said Gregory and Bridgett in Right of the said Bridgett did hold the Same till the Death of the Said Bridgett which was about march last past And that the Said Gregory Rowse is now in possession thereof and the Lords Rent for the whole one hundred acres of Land hath been duly paid and discharged by James Pattison the assignee and present possessor of the other fifty acres of Land and the Jury aforesaid do upon their Oaths further Say That the Said Robert Sheale dyed without any issue of his Body Lawfully begotten and left no heir at Law to him the Said Robert to Inherit in the Land aforesaid nor made any Disposition thereof to any person whatsoever in his life time to the knowledge of the Jurors aforesaid But by what Right or Title the said Bridgett during her widowhood or the Said Gregory & Bridgett Since their Intermarriage held the Same or the said Gregory now holds the Same the Jurors aforesaid are wholly Ignorant
- John Manley
Commission
Robert Carvile
Stephen Murty, John Noble
Stephen Gough, John Bayly
Abram Taylor, Richard Birkhead
John Brown, Thomas Nottingham
William Shercliffe, Thomas Salmon
James Pattison, Daniel Hammond