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       and fifty pounds of Tobacco all being two thousand nine hun- Liber B.

       dred and forty eight pounds of Tobacco and Caske I bind No. 3.

       over to the Said Will Batten for payment of the aforesaid

       Sume as Wittness my hand this 27th of Aprill 1656

                                     Michaell Brooke

       Wittness John Saffin

             Will Stockden Signum

        Know all men by these presents that I Mich: Brooke doe

       bind my Self my heirs Executors, Administrators or Assignes

       to Save and keep Harmless William Batten his heirs Execu-

       tors or Assignes of and from any trouble or Molestation

       that Shall or may Come upon him or his Estate for any Bills

       Bonds or orders of Court, that may or Shall be Granted by

       any Court within the precincts of Virginia of the Said Michael

       brooke or against him and in Case that if any order of Court

       Should be granted agst William Batten or his Estate for the

       Said Michael Brooke that then the Said Brooke Shall Satisfie it

       againe unto the Said Batten and all Court Charges that Shall

       arise upon it; And for the true performance hereof I the Said

       Mich: Brooke doe bind over my Plantation and all moveables p.

       thereupon to Save and keep harmless the Said Batten or his

       Assignes as Wittness my hand this 27th of Apill 1656.

       Wittness Iohn Saffin            Mich: Brooke

             Will Stockclen Signum

        Know all men by these presents that I William Batten of

       Putuxent, Have received of Michael Brookes of the Same

       place the full and lust Sume of three thousand Eighty and

       three pounds of Tobacco and Caske payable the tenth of

       November 1656 which is in full Satisfaction for that Ingage-

       ment upon Record, Likewise I doe acquit and Discharge the

       Said Brookes from a Bond bearing date with that Bond upon

       Record, which he engaged his Estate to Answr a Suit in

       Northumberland County, which I the Said Battin was bound

       to Answer for him as Wittness my hand this 9th of march 1656.

       Wittness George Newman        Signurn

             Henry Keene           William WB Battin

                   The 27th of December 1655

        Be it known unto all men by these presents that I William

       Young of Norniny planter doth out of Love and tender affec-

       tion that I beare unto Richard Bennett younger, I doe freely

       Give the Said Richard Bennett younger being Son to Richard

       Bennett Elder Living in Popler Neck in Maryland planter, one

       Cowe Calfe being marked of the Right Eare with a Crop and

       Slitt, And on the left Eare with a Swallow fork: being now of