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338 To all Christian People to whome these p.rsents Chall Come Greeting Know you y.t I John Bowles of Kent County in y.e province of Mary Land Planter out of the naturall affection y.t I bear unto my Dearly beloved brother Isaac Bowles and Mary his wife of the same County & Province Mariner and for divers others Considerations me more Espeacially moving doe give grant Alien and Confirme and by these p.rsents give grant Alien and Confirm unto my sayd well beloved brother Isaac Bowles one half of the stockes of Hoggs now runing on the sayd plantation and one Servant named William Walker for his full time w.ch he hath to secu and the produce of the sayd servants Labour to be att the disposing of the sayd Isaac only the Corn w.ch he makes to be for the maintenance of the sayd stock of Hoggs and also two Cowes and two Calfs w.th all their future Thereof and one Horse Called Diamond to him and his Heires lawfully together for Ever y.e sayd servant Doe remaine and abide w.th the sayd Isaac Bowles during the sayd time w.ch he hath to serve and y.t the one Moety or one half part of the Hoggs to remaine w.th their Increase unto y.e sayd John Bowles his Heires and assignes for Ever This Contract To hold remain and abide for and during y.e full terme & time y.t the sayd servant named William Walker shall have to serve In Testemony wheroff we the pties above Menconed have Interchangably sett too their hands & fixed their seales this seaventh day of May in the year of the Reigne of William and Mary by the grace of God of England Scottland France & Ierland King and Queen Deffenders of the faith &c.a and in the year of our Lord one Thousand six hundred Eighty one John Bowles (seal) sealed & delivered Before us MMiller Isaac Bowles (seal) Griffith Jones |
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