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doe freely and willingly Give and bestow three heifers for Liber B. Ever, as foIl That the Milk of those three heifers and the Male increase Shall goe to the Maintenance of a Minister which is to be in the now known Neck of Wicocomoco, and further my desire is that if it please god that this Stock Should increase till it Come to the Number of fifteen female Cattell, then there to pitch and remaine at that Number and not to Exceed, and for the other half of the Male Increase I doe give it to my trusty and Wellbeloved friends, John Hatch, Edward Boules and ffrancis Pope of the Same place, whom I have made Over- seers of this my Deed of Gift toward their paines and Care and in Case a Minister Should be wanting as God forbid then these Cattell to remaine in the hands of my Overseers till there be one, and when it Shall please God that these Cattell Shall Increase to Exceed the Number of fifteen breeders that then my Overseers Shall dispose of them to the poor or other pious Uses as they Shall See Good, And further I Give full and absolute power to my aforesaid trusty friends either at Death or Departing this Countrey to Nominate three other honest men as they Shall make Choice of which in the Said Necke to the Same purpose, And I the Said Wm Marshall doe promise to deliver as Speedily as may be, unto John Hatch, Edward Boules and ffrancis Pope three heifer the one a red heifer the other a Cole black with a Star in the forehead and with white flanks and one brownish with a Starr in the fore- p. 609 head with a white tagged taile Marked in the right Eare, Cropt and in the left Eare Cropt and Slitt in the Crop, and further if it Should happen that if any of the Overseers, Should Imbezell or make away with this Stock Contrary to the prem- isses within Mentioned then the parish to appoint others in their Stead, To have and to hold the Said heifers to the use Benefitt as is aforesaid for Ever with their Increase. In Testi- mony whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seale this 3 day of June one thousand Sixe hundred fifty and foure his mark Signed Sealed and DeliveredWilliam x Marshall in the presence of us his mark John x Cage John Douglas
mr William Lucas his Mark for Cattle and hogs Vizt the p. 610 flower de Luce on the left Eare and overkeeled on the right Eare
23 Junij 1654. mr Phillip Land this day Entreth upon Record for the use of Phillip Land the Younger his Eldest Son one
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