Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 549

Sealed and delivered in the p^rsence of Tho Bayley Walter Snowe
Edward Lees M his marke
This is a true Coppy of the Originall Examined by vs W^m Fynney
Thomas Sutton
Walter Snowe of fferny hill in the County of Stafford gent, and
Edward Lees of Rownall in the said County .... make oathe that
this is a true coppy .... of a deed purporting .... Snowe to Jdith his

Liber
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.... Both these depon^ts sworne to the truth hereof the 29^th day of
September 1659 before S^r Richard dyott Kn^t one of the Masters of
the Chancery of England Ric: Dyett :
To all Christean People to whom this p^rsent wryting shall come
Greeting Whereas Thomas Gerrard of New hall in the County of
Lancaster gent, late of Snowe Hill in the Province of Maryland in
the parts of America by one Recognizance beareing date the nine-
teenth day of June in the yeare of our late King Charles &c. the
sixteenth, Accknowledged before John Page Esq^r one of the Mas-
ters of the most hono^ble Co^rt of Chancery hath become bound vnto
Abell Snowe of Cursitars office in Chancery Lane London gent, his
heires Executors and Adm^rs and Assigns in the Sume of one thou-
sand pounds of lawfull money of England to be leauyed upon the
goods and Chattels lands Tenem^ts and heredittam^ts of the s^d Thomas
Gerrard his heires Executors and Administrato^rs within the Province
of Maryland aforesaid for the paym^t and deliuery of the full Sume of
thirty fiue thousand pound weight of good and merchantable Leafe
tobacco of Maryland and also the Sume of one hundred ninety and
foure pounds of currant English money which the said Thomas Ger-
rard oweth vpon a Just Acc^o made betwixt the said Abell Snowe and
the said Thomas Gerrard vnto the said Abell Snowe his Executors
Administrators & assigns as by the said Recognizance Indenture of
defeazance and the Acc^o more plainely and att large appeareth And
whereas the s^d Abell Snowe by his deed of Guift beareing date the
seaven and twentyth day of June in the Eighteenth yeare of our
aforesaid late King Charles &c as well for the naturall love duty and
affeccon which he owed and bore to his deare & loving mother Jdith
Snowe of ferny hill in the County of Stafford widd as alsoe for diu-
ers other good Causes Consideracons .... Gerrard his Executors and

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Adm^rs together with all his househould goods Catties and Chattle:
moueable and vnmoveable whatsoeuer in his posson or which wen
oweing vnto him both in the Realme of England and in the s^d Prov-
ince of Maryland as by the said deed of guift more plainely and at
large itt doth and may appeare Now Knowe yee that I the said Jdith
Snowe as well for the naturall loue and affeccon w^ch I beare vnto my
Loving Sonne Marmaduke Snowe of Ferny hill afores^d in the said
County of Stafford gent, as also for divers other good causes &
consideracons me therevnto especially moueing [have] Assigned and
sett over and in and by theis p^rsents doe give grant Assigne and set

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