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53 Bounder Containeing three hundred acres more or lesse Together with al Rights benefitts Priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging And all writings Patents Escripts and Miniments which doe any wayes touch or concerne the same To have and to hold the said tract of Land and premisses with the Appurtenances unto him the said Thomas Smith his heyres & Assignes to his and their own proper use and behoof for ever free and cleer of all incumbrances whatsoever (the Rents and Services hereafter to become due to the Lord of the fee of the Premisses onely Excepted) And the said George Smith for himselfe his heyres Executors & Adm.rs doth Covenant promise and Grant to and with the Said Thomas Smith his heyres and assignes ^by these presents that the said Thomas Smith his heyres and Assignes^ shall & may for ever hereafter peaceably and quietly have hold possesse and Enjoy the aforesaid parcell of land and premisses with the Appurtenances without the lett Suite or eviccon of any person whatsoever And that he the Said George Smith his heyres Ex.rs and Adm.rs shall & will warrant and defend the sayd land & premisses unto the said Thomas Smith his heyres & Assignes for ever against all persons whatsoever In Wittnes whereof the partyes first above named have hereunto interchangeably sett their hands & seales the day & yeare first above written Signum Signed sealed & delivered in Thomas ^ Doxey Sealed p.rsence of Signum Charles Fra Elizabeth E Smith Sealed Testis David Driver on the back side of the aforegoing Deed was thus written viz.t February 19.th 1677 The within written deed of Conveyance was then in open Court Acknowledged by the within named Thomas Doxey Attorney of George Smith to be his Act and Deed to the uses therein menconed; & Elizabeth the wife of the said George gave her free Consent to the sale of the within menconed land and p.rmisses and acknowledged that she did it without Compulsion Nic Painter Cl Cur Pro To all Christian People to whome this present writeing shall come know yee that I George Smith of Point looke out Planter for divers Causes and Consideracons me thereunto Especially moveing have made ordained & Constituted and in my place and stead putt and Authorized Thomas Doxey my true Sufficient and lawfull Attorney for me & in my name & form my use to enter into a tract of land Called Cambridge in the County of Sumersett and in the advowson of or belonging to the said tract of land and into every part & parcell thereof Scytuate lying and being on the East Side of the Chesepick Bay neere Nantecoke River bounded as followeth begining att a marked Read Oake being a corner tree of a Parcell of land serveyed for John Craycroft thence with a line Drawne South South East up Baron Creeke Nynty perches to a marked Gum thence with a line drawne North North West Nynty perches to a marked Pyne and from thence with a right line drawn to the first bounder contayning Three hundred Acres more or lesse and the Same Parcell or tract of land for me and in my name to vieu and Survey & by these presents for me and in my name doe give full Power and Authority to the Said Thomas Doxey for me and in my name to bargain sell lease or grant to such person and persons and for Such Estates for life or lives inheritance or otherwise & for such sume & sums of money as to my Said Attorney shalbe Thought made and Convenient to the uttermost and best Comodity and profitts of me the Said George Smith and the Deed and deeds of the same grant & Estates soe to be made for me and in my name to Seale and as my Deed to Deliver unto the parties to whom the Same shalbe soe made or to any other to their use and uses and the Counterparts of the same for me an din my name to Accept and Receive Giving and by these presents granting to my said Attorney my full power and ^lawfull^ Authority touching and Concerning the premisses to doe Execute proceed and finish in all things in as ample manno.r and for me to all intents & purposes as I the Said George Smith might or ought to do if I were then and there present and ratifie and Allow all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall doe in or about the premisses according to the true intent and meaning of these presents in Wittnes whereof I have hereunto putt my hand and seale this fourteenth day of Decemb.r Anno Domi 1677 Sealed & Delivered in the presence of George Smith sealed Signum Thomas TV Vaughan Anthony Evans |
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