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Charles County Maryland Land Record Liber Z#2, 1744-1753; Page 67.
At the request of John Wathen, the following deed was recorded on Oct 28, 1745.
Jul 24, 1745 from Jesse Tennison and Ignatius Tennison of Prince Georges County, planter, to John Wathen of CC, Gent, for 8000 pounds of tobacco and 5 £ sterling and for divers other good causes, all that tract of land in CC, it being part of a tract of land called Strife, and taken up by Benjamin Hall on Jan 29, 1699(/1700], bounded by sd Strife, Calverts Hope, containing and laid out for about 135 acres. To have and to hold, provided, however, that Sarah Tennison, mother of the afd Jesse & Ignatious, who now lives on part of the land and premises before mentioned, shall remain thereon without any let or disturbance of sd John Wathen, during her natural life, and use such part, with the orchard thereon, without being put to her third part of the land or orchard, saving that sd John Wathen shall have liberty of placing a tenant on the part of the land immediately where Ignatious Tennison lately lived, and receive the rents thereof, to the use of sd John Wathen. Signed - Jesse Tennison, Ignatius Tennison. Wit - George Dent, Elenor Dent. Rachel Tennison, wife of sd Jesse Tennison, and Elizabeth Tennison, wife to sd Ignatius Tennison, being privately examined, acknowledged that they gave up their right of dower to the within mentioned land.
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Port Tobacco: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 326-172: STRIFE: 148 acres; Possession of - 148 Acres - Warren, Thomas: : Surveyed 23 April 1670 for William Barton at a bound White Oak in the woods on the West side of Zachia swamp about a mile from the swamp.: Conveyance notes - 135 Acres - John Wathen from Jesse & Ignatius Tennison; 24 July 1745,
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 362-4: STRIFE: 235 acres; Possession of - 100 Acres - Lemaster, Richard: 135 Acres - Smallwood, Samuel: Surveyed 20 Jan 1699 for Benjamin Hall beginning at a bound locust: Conveyance notes - 100 Acres - Mary Contee from Richard Lemaster; 24 March 1709, 135 Acres - Samuel Smallwood from Benjamin Hall; 19 Dec 1706,135 Acres - John Tennison from William Rogers & Mary; 26 Oct 1723, 135 Acres - Ignatius Tennison from John Tennison; 1 Jan 1742, 50 Acres - James Mudd from John Martin Jr.; 8 Nov 1743, Smith (?) Hawkins from James Mudd; 17 Oct 1747,
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 367-36: STRIFE: 235 acres; Possession of - 100 Acres - Lemaster, Richard: 135 Acres - Smallwood, Samuel: Surveyed 20 Jan 1699 for Capt Benjamin Hall beginning at a bound locust: Conveyance notes - , 135 Acres - Philemon Hensley from Samuel Smallwood; 17 April 1712,Entered before in folio 362,
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 367-35: CALVERTS HOPE: 898 acres; Possession of - 898 Acres - Hall, Benjamin: : : : : : : Surveyed 19 Feb 1670 for James Bowling on the East side a maine fresh branch of Wicomico about 3 miles from the River.: Conveyance notes - Included in Resurvey of CALVERTS HOPE; 21 March 1706, folio 378 (St. Benedict Hundred), 150 Acres - Thomas Read from Benjamin Hall; 28 Jan 1716,,
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 378-15: CALVERTS HOPE RESURVEY: 1198 acres; Possession of - 1198 Acres - see notes: Re-Surveyed 21 of March 1707 for Benjamin Hall and Mary his wife beginning at a bound tree of the said land standing on a hill side near unto the dwelling plantation of Major William Boarman: Conveyance notes - {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}, Liber patent number 2 folio 291 annotated near upper left corner of record.,472 Acres - John Parnham from Francis Hall & John Baptist Boarman; 23 May 1737, 435 Acres - John Baptist Boarman from John Parnham & Francis Hall; 23 May 1737, Charles Smoote from John Baptist Boarman; 12 April 1743, The rent of this land is overcharged 0:6:10-1/2,
Notice that there are no records of Justinian during the decade 1749-1759 in Charles, Prince George's or Frederick Counties. Another puzzling point is that all three of the Frederick Co. records call him Jesse Dennis, not Tennison. In this regard, note that in the 1743-1748 record below both Justinian and Ignatius are called Dennison.
If the Prince George's Co. Justinian and the Frederick Co. Justinian are the same man, it is not necessary that Justinian physically relocated because Frederick Co. was created in 1748 out of Prince George's Co. And, if they are the same man, then the Charles Co. Justinian is a new younger man.
1743-1748 - Prince George's Co., Md. Court. Mathew Hopkins & Co. vs. Jesse Dennison, of Prince George's Co., planter. Attachment. Thomas Clark, atty. for Hopkins & Co.; Henry Darnall, atty. for Jesse. In Mar. 1746/7, Hopkins & Co. alleged that in Apr. 1744 Jesse Dennison stood indebted to them in the sum of 3 pounds, 19 shillings, 6 pence current money by virtue of the following account which was produced in Court.
At the Mar. 1746/7 Court, the Sheriff was directed to have Jesse at the June 1747 Court to answer the complaint against him filed by Hopkins. At the June 1747 Court, the Sheriff reported that Jesse Dennison was not to be found in his bailywick. The Court then directed the Sheriff to have Jesse before the Aug. 1747 Court. At the Aug. 1747 Court, the Sheriff again reported that Jesse was not to be found in his bailywick. Hopkins then requested that a writ of attachment be issued against Jesse's property in the amount of 3/19/6, plus an unspecified amount for his costs and charges, which request was granted by the Court.
At the Nov. 1747 Court, Ignatius Dennison, of Prince George's Co., planter, appeared and became pledge and security for Jesse, agreeing to pay any judgment rendered in favor of Hopkins & Co. against Jesse if Jesse did not pay it. The case was then continued from court to court until the Court of Nov. 1748 when the parties appeared, and Jesse denied that he owed Hopkins & Co. At that point Hopkins & Co. stated that they would not further prosecute the case. The Court then dismissed the action against Jesse, and further ordered that Jesse recover from Hopkins & Co. [amount left
blank in court record] pounds of tobacco for Jesse's costs and charges.
Source: Prince George's Co., Md. Court Records, Liber GG, pp. 225-7 (attachment proceedings) and Liber KK, pp. 56-59 (subsequent developments).
Comment: Although the name is spelled Jesse "Dennison" many times throughout this case, and also Ignatius "Dennison," these men seem clearly to be Jesse and Ignatius Tennison. From the history of this case, it looks like Jesse might have been out of Prince George's Co. for some part of the
period between Apr. 1744 and Nov. 1747.
Mar. 1748/9 - Charles Co., Md. Court. Justinian pays Barbara Tennison's fine and posts bond for her when she is convicted of bastardy. See record of this date under Barbara Tennison for complete record and source.
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