26        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.

             Liber B B  County aforesd; haue Gyuen & by these prnts doe freely giue unto
                    George & Anne Reynolds the sonne & daughter of the sd George
                    Reynolds, one Black Cow (goeing by the name of Mopsa) marked
                    on the Right care wth a Crop, & a peece taken out under the care;
                    & the left care slitt, being a Black Cow. To haue & to hold the sd
                    Cow & all her encrease both male & ffemale from the date hereof unto
                    them theyr heyres & Assignes, or the suruiuors of them, or any of
                    them for euer. Prouided that the male Cattle to goe to the sd George
                    Reynolds, or whom hee shall appoynt, towards the looking after the
                    sd Cow & encrease untill they come to age of Twenty one yeares or
                    marryed. In testimony whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand this
                    Tenth day of May Ano Dni one Thowd six hundd sixty & one.
                      Signed & Delieuered in the prnce of us ffrancis ffitzherbert.
                       Jerome White Thomas Brooke.
                     I ffrancis ffitzherbert doe by these ptnts Constitute, ordaine & ap
                    poynt my trusty & welbeloued ffreind Mr Luke Gardener to deliuer
                    the sd Cow menconed in this Deed of Gwift, her encrease unto
                    the sd George Reynolds, for the use of his Children wthin menconed
                    & likewise to see it Recorded for their use, as wittnes my hand this
                    one & Twentith day of Aprill, Anoq Dni 1663.
                                                 ffrancis ffitzherhert.

                     Know all men by these ptnts that I Willm Bushell of st Maries in
                    the Prouince of Maryland, for mee my heyres, Executors Admis
                    trators & Assignes, ffor & in ConsideraOn of seauen Thowsand
                    pownds of good sownd & merchble Tobacco & Cask to bee payd att
                    Two entire paymts doe bargaine, sell, graunt & confirme unto William
                    Wates his heyres Executors Admistrators or Assignes, & by these
                    prnts haue bargayned sould, graunted & confirmed unto the sd William
                    Wates his heyres Executors Admistrators or Assignes, The moiety
                    or halfe of tht Land Plantaon & Orchard (formerly Thomas
                    Bushells) scituate & Bownding uppon the Herring Creeke, & the
                    Land of William Smoote Bownding on the one side of it, And the
                    Land of Owen James Bownding on the other side, wth the Rights,
               [p.  Emoluments & priuiledges thereunto belonging. ifurther I the sd
                    William Bushell by these ptnts Bind my selfe my heyres Executors
                    Admistrators or Assignes to warrant the sale of the Land, Plan
                    taOn, howses & Orchard, agst all just claimes & Tytles of any ptson
                    whateuer, unto the sd William Wates, his heyres, Executors, Adthis
                    trators or Assignes. ifurther I the Bushell for mee my heyres
                    haue firmely sould the halfe of the sd Land unto the sd William Wates
                    & his heyres, Together wth the halfe of the sd howses & orchard now
                    being uppon the sd Land or PlantaOn, To bee ffree & cleere from in
                    cumberances & arrerages of Rents, And doe ifurther bind my selfe
                    & heyres to giue unto the sd William Wates his heyres &c: a firmer
                    Bill of sale or Conueyance for the sd Land according to th° Graue