Notes for John Roberts

Notes for John Roberts

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- Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March, 1707-November, 1710, Volume 27 page 86 Assembly Proceedings, March 26-April 15, 1707: L. H. J.
Which being read the House concurs therewith and ordered the Committee go out as desired. The Petition of some Gentlemen of Talbot County relating to their Court House and a Petition of Mr George Harris referred to further Consideration Colonel William Holland and James Sanders Esqr enter the House and deliver Mr Speaker Henry Roberts Petition which with the Indorsment thereon is ordered to be read and entered.
To his Excellency the Governor and her Majesty's Honorable Council and the House of Delegates of the Province of Maryland.
The Petition of Henry Roberts son of Andrew Roberts and Brother of John Roberts late of Ann Arundel County most humbly sheweth,
That your Petitioner's said Father in his life time stood seized of a certain Tract of Land in this Province lying at the Head of Rhode River in Ann Arundel County containing 100 Acres, which by his last Will and Testament he devised to the said John Roberts your Petitioner's Brother who inter-marryed with Eleanor one of the Daughters of Mareen Duvall but so it happened about a half year after her Marriage she eloped from her said Husband and cohabited with one John Campbell of Baltimore County by whom after six years Absence from her Husband she had a son which she always declared John Campbell to be the Father of, as your Petitioner by very positive Proofs can make appear and never returned to John Roberts her Husband. That the said John Roberts afterwards purchased of the Lord Baltimore another Tract of Land called Robert's Choice containing 1010 Acres being on Back River in Baltimore County and soon after dyed mutual Reconciliation being had between him and his said wife.
Now so it is, may it please your Honours since the Death of the said John Roberts the said Bastard son of the said Cambell so begotten as aforesaid hath taken upon himself the Name of John Roberts tho' always before went by the Name of John Cambell and pretends to be the lawful son and Heir of your Petitioner's said Brother intending thereby to defraud your Petitioner of the aforesaid two Tracts of Land who in Right and Conscience is and ought to be the Heir at Law of his said Brother.
p. 116 Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your Honours that upon Sufficient Proof made to such Committee or Persons as you shall think fit to appoint to take the same you will be favourably pleased to give leave to bring in a Bill to declare the said Issue of the said Eleanor to be illegitimate and your Petitioner the lawful and rightful Heir of his said Brother And as in Duty bound shall ever pray The aforegoing Petition was indorsed thus Viz.
L. H. J. By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly, April 3d 1707.