Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 459

stitute ordeine and appoynte my trusty and welbeloved Brother
George Gouldsmith in the County of Baltemore in Maryland Planter
my true and law full Attorney for me and to my vse and in my place
and steed to dispose of or make absolute Sale of three hundred acres
of land properly belonging vnto me and being parte of a Devident
of land of mine Scituated lying and being in the same County and to
giue and Grant as full & ample deeds of Sale or Conveyance for the
same as if I were there personally p^esent giveing and granting vnto
my said Attorney full power and authority to receiue all such Sumes
of moneyes goods or tobaccoes which shall accrewe by the Sale of
the said land houlding and alloweing whatsoeuer my said Attorney
shall doe or cause to be done on the p^emisses as effectuall as I might
or could doe being there personally p^esent And after such Sale made
and vpon the non payment of what shall thereby growe due vnto me
from any person or persons to arrest impleade Condemne and im-
prison and at his will and pleasure againe to release and vpon the
Receipts of any moneyes Goods or tobaccoes to my vse in my name
to giue as full discharges as I could doe being there present In Con-
firmacon whereof doe hereby binde my selfe heires Exec^rs and Ad-
ministrato^rs to allowe and Confirme for .... Attorney shall legally
doe or to my vse cause .... the 26^th of January
signed sealed and deliuered in the p^esence of ....

Liber
P. C. R.

Knowe all men by theis p^esents that I George Gouldsmith of
Baltemore County in the Province of Maryland Planter by vertue of
a letter of Attorney to me from my Brother Thomas Gouldsmith
dated the 26^th of January 1660 for and in Consideracon of the
Sume of foure thousand pounds of tobacco to me in hand payd doe
hereby assigne over and Sell vnto Richard Wells Junior and his
heires for ever three hundred acres of land out of a tract of six
hundred called Planters Delight beginning and adjoyning vpon the
Land of Major Samuell Gouldsmith And I the said George Gould-
smith my Executors and Administrators and every of vs the said
three hundred acres shall and will warrant accquitt and for ever
defend against all people by theis p^esents In Wittness whereof I the
said George Gouldsmith haue hereunto putt my hand and Seale this
20^th of May 1661 Signed George Gouldsmith
Wittness John Gittings

p. 468

To all Christian People to whome theis p^esents shall come I Henry
Meese of London Merchant send Greeting Whereas there is a cer-
taine tract of Land due to me in the Province of Maryland called by
the name of Worton and Surveyed for me the said Henry as amonge
the Records in the said Province more at large may appeare Now
Knowe yee that I the said Henry Meese as well for and in Considera-
con of the Quantity of twelue thousand pounds of Tobacco to me the

Re Meese