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        Liber B.    Assignes for and during the Terme of three years from the

              day of the date hereof in Brickmakeing or other Such Service

              or Imploymt as he the Said Thomas Gerrard Gent his heirs

              or Assignes, Shall Seem best to imploy him in, In Considera-

              tion whereof the Said Thomas Gerrard Gent. Is to find him

              with meate drink Sufficient Apparell and Lodging with other

              Necessaries during the Said Terme, and at the end of the Said

              Term, if the Said Cornelius be living, the Said Thomas Ger-

              rard Gent is to give him or his Assignes in ffreehold for ever

              two hundred Acres of Land (paying therefore Yearly at the

              usuall time and place two Barrells of Good Corne, with a

              Sufficient house upon the Same of Twenty five foot Long and

              Sixteen foot wide, Two Cowes or heifers with Calfe, two

              Sowes with pigg, two Goates with Kid, five Barrells of

              Corne, a bed fill'd with feathers or flocks a Pillow and one

              Rugg, two dishes one pott and Six Spoons. In Wittness

              Whereof the Said Thomas Gerrard Gent, hath hereunto put

              his hand & Seale the day and yeare &c:

                                            Thomas Gerrard

              Sealed Signed and Delivered

             in the presence of.—

                   William Bretton Clk

                   John S Shurtcliffe

                To all to whom these presents Shall come Whereas

              Thomas Gerrard of the Province of Maryland, hath late had in

              possession one Servant named Cornelius Canedy which Said

              Servant hath lately Runn away from his Said master Thomas

              Gerrard from the Said Province of Maryland as by a writt

              directed from the Right Worshipfull the Governour of Virginia

              more at Large appeareth. Now Know Ye that the Said

              Thomas Gerrard for a Valuable Consideracon in hand received,

              doe by these presence Sell Bargaine and make over unto

              Morrene Delammonda of Virga Chirurgeon or to his Executors

              or Assignes all my Right, Interest and Title in the Said Ser-

              vant for the full Terme of yeares belonging unto me by Inden-

              ture Beginning at the 13th day of ffebruary last past, and after

              untill the first day of November next come two yeares fully to

              be Compleat and ended, and I doe further bind my Self my

              Executors or Assignes to Warrant; and ensure the Said Ser

        p. 381 vant unto the Said Morren delamondayes within the Colony

              of Virga and further to Warrant and Secure the Said Servant

              for the full Terme of one yeare and one day after the date of

              these presents, and for the further Security of hin the Said

              Morren delamondays, I the Said Thomas Gerrard doe bind

              my Self my heirs or Assignes, In case the Said Servant happen

              to decease within the Terme of one yeare and a day, after the