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Exam.d This Indenture made this twenty seventh day of May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifty six Between James Mackdowell of Cæcil County in the Province of Maryland planter son and Heir of William Mackdowell Deceased was the Devisee of John Mackdowell Late of Calvert County Deceased of the one Part and James Mackall of Calvert County in the same Province Gentleman of the other Part Whereas the aforesaid John Mackdowell by his Last Will Devised all that part or parcel of Land in Calvert County where he Lived to Mary Mackdowell for and During the Form ^Term^ of her natural Life and after her Decease to the aforesaid William Mackdowell and the heirs of his Lawfully begot and also in and by his said Last Will Devised to his Daughter Elizabeth Plattford that parcel of Land in Calvert County that Richard White Lived on during the Term of her Natural Life and afterwards to his Son the said William Mackdowell and the Heirs of his Body Lawfully begotten as by the aforesaid Will now in the prerogative office of this province of Maryland Reference being thereunto had may more fully appear And Whereas I the aforesaid Mary Mackdowell the Devisee aforesaid hath Departed this Life and the aforesaid William Mackdowell hath also Departed this Life and the aforesaid Elizabeth Plattford hath Likewise Departed this Life Whereby the Premisses aforesaid Descended to the aforesaid James Mackdowell as Heir of the aforesaid William Mackdowell And Whereas the aforesaid parcels of Land and Parcels of that Tract of Land Called Coles Clifts in Calvert County and it was effectually agreed by and between the Parties thereunto that the aforesaid James John Mackall should purchase or impetrate a Writ of Entry against the aforesaid James Mackdowell Tenant in Tail of the Premisses aforesaid to the end that a Recovery might be had in the usual Form for Docking and barring the Estate Tail aforesaid and that the uses of the said Recovery should be settled and Limited on and Declared to be to the said James ^John^ Mackall in Fee simple in Consideration of the sum of sixty five Pounds Current Money to the said James Mackdowell by the said James John Mackdowell ^Mackall^ in hand paid and Whereas in pursuance of the agreement such Recovery has been had as aforesaid as may appear from the Records of the Provincial ^Court^ of this Province Now This Indenture Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the Premisses aforesaid ^and^ of the sum of sixty five Pounds Current Money |
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