| Thomas Muir 1693 - 1779? |
BIRTH NAME: thomas Muir [no known middle name]
 
Account Records of Dorchester County, Md
Liber 17 folio 233 22 Aug 1739
CAMPBELL, Walter, dec
Exc - Elizabeth CAMPBELL, Adam MUIR & Thomas MUIR
Sureties - Thomas HICKS & Thomas WOOLFORD
To - Archibald SIMPSON
Hagar MEEKINS
Elizabeth CAMPBELL
Tuesday Morning, October 9, 1753.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c. Mr. Magruder, Mr. Pearce, and Mr. Tillotson, appeared in the House, Col. Hooper from the Committee of Grievances, delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report; viz. By the Committee of Grievances, and Courts of Justice, October 6,1753. On Complaint made to your Committee, by Mr. Roger Hooper, of Dorchester County, against Thomas Muir, Receiver of his Lord- ship's Quit-Rents there, it appears as follows; viz. That Henry Hooper, of Dorchester County, Gentleman, deceased, made his last Will and Testament, bearing Date the 20th Day of March 1720, and among other Matters therein, devised unto his two Sons, Thomas and John Hooper, in Tail, the Lower Part of Hooper'? Island, bounded on the West, with Chesapeak Bay, and on the South, with Hooper's Streights, and on the East, with Hunger River, and on the North, with Thoroughfare Creek; to be equally divided between them; which, upon Examination, your Committee find to contain 574 Acres: And the said Henry Hooper, by the said Will, devised the Remainder of the said Hooper's Island, to his Son Roger Hooper, in Tail, which Part we find to be 1766 Acres; the whole Tract, called Hooper's Island, containing 2340 Acres, as by the Patent thereof, bearing Date the I5th Day of July 1738, granted to Roger, Thomas, and John Hooper, appears. Your Committee likewise find, that the said Henry Hooper, in his Life Time, made a Resurvey of sundry Tracts of Land, which com- posed the said Hooper's Island, the Certificate of which and on which the above Patent is founded, bears Date the 2d Day of October 1714, which lay in the Land Office unpatented for some Time after, when the Widow and Executrix paid his Lordship's Agent all the Requisites, whereupon the said Patent issued. The Lower House. 167 Your Committee likewise find, that the Rents of all the Original Tracts were regularly and duly paid, to the 2Qth Day of September 1738. L. H. J. Liber No. 47 October 9 Your Committee also find, that Roger Hooper paid, unto Thomas Muir Receiver of the Quit Rents for Dorchester County, from the 29th Day of September 1738, to the 29th of September 1752, the Sum of 40 1. 13 s. 11 d. Sterling, at sundry Times, as appears by the Account of said Muir; and that the Rents arising due from said Roger Hooper, for his Part of Hooper's Island, from the 15th of July 1738, to the 29th of September 1752, amounted to 40 1. 15 s. 10 d. and for Part of a Tract of Land, called Project, in said County, devised to him by Matthew Travers, from the 2gth of September 1/40, to the 29th of September 1752, 50 Acres, i 1. 4 s. Sterling, as appears by an Account hereunto annexed, whereby there remained a Ballance of 1 1. 5 s. 11 d. only, due to the said Thomas Muir as Receiver aforesaid. Your Committee further find, that the said Thomas Muir, on the nth Day of January 1753, caused Daniel Sulivane, Sheriff of the said County, to distrain upon the said Roger Hooper, two Negroes for the Sum of 35 1. 5 s. and 6 d. Sterling, and that the said Hooper, to prevent the Loss of his Negroes, was obliged to enter into a Bond to the said Sulivane, with a Surety in the Penalty of loo 1. Sterling, conditioned as follows, viz. " The Condition of the above Obligation is such, that if the above named Roger Hooper do and shall, satisfy and pay, unto Thomas Muir, Esq; the Sum of 35 1. 5 s. 6 d. Sterling Money of England, at or before the 18th Day of this Instant January, or bring forth to Cambridge, or Cause to be brought, on the said 18th Day of this Instant January, one Negro Woman called Moreah, one Negro Boy called Cuffy, being taken by Distress for his Lordship's Quit-Rents, then the above Obligation to be void, otherwise to stand in full Force and Virtue, in Law; " as by the Bond hereunto annexed, may appear. That the giving such Bond, with so great a Penalty, so frightened the said Hooper, and his Surety, that he, to acquit himself thereof, was obliged to take up the Sterling Money, at the high Exchange of one Hundred per Cent, beside the Costs, amounting to 1 1. 10 s. 10 d. Sterling and 138 lbs. of Tobacco. Your Committee humbly conceive, that the taking such Bond was Illegal, as also the said Charge of 1 1. 10 s. 10 d. Your Committee also find, that the said Thomas Muir, charged the said Hooper for Arrears of Rent in the Years 1714, and 1715, and that it is practised by other Receivers also, although it appears to your Committee, that at a Session of Assembly held April 26, in the Year 1715, an Act passed, declaring the Continuance of the Payment of the twelve Pence per Hogshead, from the Death of Charles Lord Baltimore, to the 168 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753. L. H. J. Liber No. 47 October 9 p. 268 29th Day of September then next, vide Record Book of Laws, Page 129; and the same Session, an Act of Gauge and Tare was made, Page 206; and that at a Session of Assembly, held the 17th Day of July 1716, an Act for Gauge and Tare was made, as appears in the same Book, Page 302; in all which there is a Consideration to the respective Lords Proprietors for Land Rents. Your Committee humbly conceive, that there could be no Rent due upon the said Land called Hooper's Island, but from the Date of the Patent thereof; and that the said Thomas Muir his causing the said Roger Hooper to be distrained for the Sum aforesaid, was Illegal, Grievous and Oppressive, but is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your Honourable House. Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk. Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table. The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon. Post-Meridiem. Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1752-1754 Volume 50, Page 213-4 Thursday Morning, November i, 1753. L. H. J. Liber No. 47 November 1 The House met according to Adjournment, &c. Mr. Rasin, Major Ridgely, and Mr. Bond, appeared in the House. The Bill intituled, An Act to impower the Commissioners of Baltimore-Town, to make an Addition thereto of Thirty Two Acres of Land, &c. was read the second Time and passed, and sent to the Upper House by Mr. Govane, and Mr. Paca. The following ingrossed Address, viz. To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland. The humble Address of the House of Delegates. May it please your Excellency, We beg Leave to lay before your Excellency, the Copy of a Report, concurred to by this House, from the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, in Relation to Thomas Muir, the late Receiver of his Lordship's Quit-Rents, in Dorchester County, who has greatly oppressed Mr. Roger Hooper of the same County, by taking from him a large Sum of Money, in a very illegal and oppressive Manner, as by an Account, and the Resolves of this House hereunto annexed, may appear; to which he has been heard at the Bar of this House. And, to the End that so Manifest an Oppression may not go unpun- ished; we intreat your Excellency, that you would be pleased to direct the Attorney General, to prosecute the said Muir for the Extortion aforesaid, whereby others may be deterred, for the Future, from com- mitting the like evil Practices. Was read and assented to, and signed, on Behalf of the House, by the Honourable Speaker. Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763 Volume 543, Page 7 Muir Thomas Judgment Against John Waller 38 
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Name: Thomas Muir Year: 1779 Place: Maryland Source Publication Code: 1640.7 Primary Immigrant: Muir, Thomas Annotation: Most are date when last mentioned as living in Scotland or date of birth and date of death with place of first mention of residence in New World; some are date of emigration with intended destination. Source Bibliography: DOBSON, DAVID. Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. Vol. VII. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993. 109p. Page: 78Ayrshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records Ayr, Lanark, & Stirling: - The commissariot record of Glasgow Register of testamenis, 1547-1800 Marriages The Commissariot Record of Glasgow Register of Testaments, 1547-1800 County: Ayr Country: Scotland Mure or Muir Thomas, late of Maryland, thereafter residing in Glasgow 02 Dec 1779
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