Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  247





       Summons issued accordingly to the sherriffe of St Marys County Liber B B
     to warne the said Wm Bretton & infra ret the 4th Oct: next

       Laid out for Capt Samuell Tilghman of London Marriner a tract
     of land lying on the East side of Chesepiake Bay and on the north
     side of a riuer in the said Bay Called Choptanck riuer Beginning
     att a marked Oke upon a point neer the mouth of a Coue on the west
     side of Tradauen Creeke running north East up the Creeke for
     breadth 200 perches to the head of a Branch bounding on the north
     by a line drawne north west from the end of the north east line for
     length 500 perches on the west by a line drawne south west from
     the end of the northwest line for breadth 200 perches on the south
     by a line drawne south East from the end of the southwest line unto uide 243:
     the first markt Oke on the East the said Branch and running 244
     from the head of the said Branch on the East side south west downe
     the branch and Creeke for more breadth 270 perches to a markt Oke
     bounding on the south by a line drawne south East from the said
     Oke for length 370 perches on the East by a line drawne north East
     from the end of the south East line 270 perches on the north by a
     line drawne northwest from the end of the north East line unto the
     head of the branch on the west by the said branch and Creeke Con
     taining and now laid out for One thowsand acres more or lesse
       These Prsents wittnesseth That II Samuel Tilghman of London
     Marriner doe hereby Constitute Ordaine and put my Trusty & well
     beloued freinde John Nuthall of St Marys County in the prouince of
     Maryland Gent” my true and law full Attorney for mee and in my
     name and place to pass ouer in Court the sayle of the aboue men- nide 243:
     coned land being One thowsand acres of land by Suruey; Called 244
     Tilghmans Fortune wth Surrender of the Pattent Granted to mee [p. 311]
     under the Greate Seale of this puince of Maryland bearing date this
     17th day of January anno 1659 Wittnes Josias Fendall Esq his
     Lordsps then Leiutennt Vnto Francis Armstrong of the Clifts in
     Caluert County in the said Prouince, to him and his heires for euer
     Wth all rights Priuiledges and the appurtenances thereunto belonging,
     and whatsoeuer my said Attorney shall lawfully doe in the premises
     I duc hereby Ratifye and Confirme thc samc, allowing what my said
     Attorney shall doe or Cause to bee done in or about the prmises or
     any of them in as ample manner and forme to all intents and pur
     poses as I the said Samuell Tilghman might or Ought to doe if I
     were then and there prsonally prsent as Wittnes my hand this 26th
     day of Aprill 1664—       Samuell Tilghman Seale
       Signed sealed and
        deliü in the prsence of
        mee Daniel Jenifer
       The said John Nuthall did in Open Court pass away and make
     Ouer in the Behalfe of Capt Samuell Tilghman by uertue of the fore-