| Jerningham Drury and Able Hill Drury vs. Able Hill, Joseph Hill, and Morgan Hill
Case filed two weeks after earlier case (no. 5339-227-4 above) dismissed. Parties agreed to divide the land as described in the decree and on the plat in the papers.
Decree:
In Chancery, February Term 1805
The said Cause standing ready for hearing and being submitted, the Bills answers exhibits returned of the commissioners and agreement of the parties as stated in the return and the agreement of the
parties filed in the cause as well as all other [the other] proceedings were by the Chancellor read and considered and so it appearing right that there should be a partition of the land in the Bill and proceedings
mentioned, It Is Therefore this nineteenth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred five by Alexander Contee Hanson Chancellor and by the authority of this Court adjudged ordered and decreed that there
be a partition of the land in the proceedings mentioned, and that the return of the Commissioners be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed. It is further adjudged ordered and decreed that the
complainant, Jerningham Drury shall hold in severalty and not partially with the said other complainants and the defendants or others of them, all that part of the following tracts of land called Burkheads Parcel
and Birkheads Meadow situate in Anne Arundel County which said part is described on the plat returned by the commission by lot number four, it being part of the lot No. 1, [metes and bounds]...
It is further adjudged ordered and decreed that the complainant Abel Hill Drury shall hold in severalty and not jointly with the other parties hereto all that part of the before mentioned lands which is
described on the plat by Lot number three...
It is further adjudged ordered and decreed that the said defendant Abel Hill shall hold in severalty and not jointly with the parties hereto or any of them all that part of the before mentioned lands which is
described on the plat by Lot number five...
And it is further adjudged ordered and decreed that the said defendant Joseph Hill shall hold in severalty and not jointly with the parties hereto or any of them all that part of the before mentioned lands
which is described on the plat by Lot number six...
And it is further adjudged ordered and decreed that the said defendant Morgan Hill shall hold in severalty and not jointly with the parties hereto or any of them all that part of the before mentioned lands
which is described on the plat by Lot number seven...
CHANCERY COURT (Docket) Jerningham Drury and
Able Hill Drury vs. Able Hill, Joseph Hill, and Morgan Hill, 1804, p. 261, MdHR 17,956 [MSA S527-16, 1/34/5/6]
CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) Jerningham
Drury and Able Hill Drury vs. Able Hill, Joseph Hill, and Morgan Hill, 1804, MdHR 17,898-1540 [MSA S512-2-1613, 1/36/1/65]
CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Record) Jerningham
Drury and Able Hill Drury vs. Able Hill, Joseph Hill, and Morgan Hill, 1804, Liber 63, p. 36, MdHR 17,776 [MSA S517-76, 1/35/2/13]
Scanned as msaref 5458-51-3904
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber NH 9,
542,
543,
544,
545 [MSA CE76-37]
Extract of diary of Jerningham Drury re: court costs, Smith Collection,
MSA SC 5859
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