Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664. 335

      To all people I Richard Stone of Charles County in the prouince Liber B B
     of Maryland send Greeting Know yee that I the said Richard Stone
     as well for and in Consideracon of the Naturall Affeccons and
     Brotherly loue which I haue and doe beare unto my well beloued
     Brother Mathew Stone as allsoe for diuers good Causes & Consid
     eracons mee especially mouing haue giuen granted and by these
     prsents doe giue grant and Confirme unto the sd Matthew Stone all
     and singuler my right title & Interest unto a parcell of land scituate
     and lying on the East side of Chesepiake Bay and on the south side
     of a riuer in the said Bay Called Sassafrax riuer beginning att a
     marked Oke standing neer a great Marsh (the Marsh running South)
     running west and by north by the riuer side for breadth two hundred [p. 411]
     and fifty perches to a marked Oke bounding on the west by a line
     drawne East and by south from the end of the south line untill it
     intersect a parrellell drawne from a Marsh called Stone Marsh on
     the East wth the said parrellell and Marsh on the North wth the said
     riuer Containing and now laid out for flue hundred acres more or
     lesse, To haue and to hould the said land and all the aforesaid
     prmisses unto the said Mathew Stone his heires or Assignes to his
     or theire owne proper uses and behoofes for euer, freely and quietly
     wthout any matter of Challenge Claime or demand of me the said
     Richard Stone or of any other person or persons whatsoeuer for
     me in my name my Cause pretence or procurement. In wittnes
     whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand and seale this 20th day of
     December 1664—             Richard Stone Seald
      Signed sealed & deliuered
      In the prsence of
         Thomas Mannyng       Acknowledged and past ouer
         Thomas Sprigge         in Open Court
         Humphery Warren             Daniel Jenifer

Comand Robert Mackling and Margarite his wife of St Marys
                                      County That Justly &c they keep wth Capt John Tully senior of Lon
                                      don the Couenant &c of One hundred acres lying in Chester riuer in
                                      a Creeke Called Cowrseys Creeke (Called Mackim) adjoyning to the
                                      land of James Bowling in Talbott County—
                                      Philip Caluert

      And the agreemt is such that the said Robt Mackling and Mar
     garite his wife haue acknowledged the aforesaid One hundred acres
     of land to be the right of the sd Jno Tully as those which the sd John
     Tuily hath of the guift of the said Robert Mackim and Margarite
     his wife and the same they haue remised quitt Claimed from them
     & theire heires to the aforesaid Ino Tully and his heires for euer and
     further the said Robert Mackling and Margarite his wife haue
     granted for them and the heires of the sd Robert Mackling and Mar
     garite his wife that they will warrant to the aforesaid John Tully