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      said sherriffe to be sessed in that County for the reinbursmt of the Liber B B

      said Capt Wm Burges—

      Mr Samuell Chew
        The price of the Island if Mr Holland will haue it is flue thowsand
      pounds of uery good large and bright tobacco and Caske to be all
      paid downe prsently more if yow Cann but this same is the least I
      will take, if any other good paymaster will buy it to pay but one halfe
      this yeare and the other half e next yeare then seauen thowsand is
      my lowest price, soe if yoW sell it, Theise prsents shall engage mee
      my heires or Assignes to make good the sale of it
      Herring Creeke             Yors to Command
        Nouembr the 20th 1663           Edw: Carter
      on the back side of the said letter is written thus
 Receiued of Mr Francis Holland flue thowsand pounds of uery
                                   good tobacco and Cáske for the use of Cott: Edwd Carter and in full
                                   payment for two hundred seauenty flue Acres of land lying on the
                                   south side of Herring Creeke Bay called Bennetts Island I say re
                                   ceiued this 17th day of December 1663—
                                   By Mee Sath: Chew
        The aboue said land was by Samuell Chew past ouer on behalf e
      of Edw: Carter, to the said Holland as allsoe the said acquittance
      acknowledged in Open Court the 22th xcembr 1664
                     Daniel Jenifer Clke
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        Maryland. Know all men by these prsents that Wee Robert Hat- [p. 409]
      ton and Thomas Hatton of St Marys County Gent” Doe hereby
      acknowledge to Owe and stand Justly endebted unto Humphery
        Warren of Charles County mercht the Just sume or quantity of
        twenty thowsand pounds of good merchantable tobacco & Caske to
        be paid on all demds and for the true paymt thereof wee binde Our
        selues Our heires Executors & Administrators Joyntly and each of
        Vs seuerally being on Condicon following Dated the 8th day of
        Nouembr 1664—
        The Condicon of the aboue Obligacon is such that if the aboue
      bounded Robert Hatton and Thomas Hatton and theire heires att
      the Cost and Charges in the law of the aboue named Humphery
      Warren his heires or Executors att the next Prouinall Court held
      for this prouince Ensueing the date hereof shall leauy One fine of
      a Certaine parcell of land lying on the west side of Wiccocomoco
      riuer beginning att a point called Hattons point running northwest
      and to the westward of the north for the length of three hundred
      sixty and flue perches to a marked Oake standing att the head of a
      broade Marsh by the said riuer wth a line drawne south and by west
      the length of One hundred and fourteene perches to a marked Oake