Re: Thomas Maris of Charles Co. MD

Not, it's not "Posey Lane."

Jourdan's abstract of Charles County, Maryland Land Records [which is the record quoted] read it as "Dosey Lane." Looking at the original R:432 on FHL microfilm 0,013,749, it looks to my more like "Dorey Lane."

I am sure this is the clerk's misreading and then mistranscription of the deed he copied into the book, and it is supposed to be "Drury Lane."

The 100 acres was purchased by Thomas MARIS from George LANGHAM on 2 Jan. 1670 as "Drury Lane" and had been laid out for Gerrard BROWN, and adjacent to Capt. Will. STONE Mannor called "Poyton." {E:7[a], FHL microfilm 0,013,747}

When it was sold by Henry KEY to John STONE on 3 July 1746 he sold 6 acres, part of a tract called "Drury Lane" adjacent to 'Pointon Manner." [Z No. 2:122, FHL microfilm 0,013,754]

On 11 Nov. 1748 Henry KEY sold to Benjamin READER all that tract "Drury Lane" formerly laid out for Gerrard BROWN and adjacent to "Pointen Mannor," being 100 acres except for6 acres sold to John STONE. [Z No. 2:322]