370Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664-65.






               Liber B B  in discharge thereof, And I the said Nicolas Rice doe hereby for me
                      my heires & assignes fully remise release surrender & giue up all title
                      Claime Interest right and for euer quitt C!aime unto the said lands or
                      any part or parcell thereof, And doe further Conenant and agree to
                      and wth the said James Jones his heires and successors to saue de
                      fend & keep harmless him the said James Jones his heires and As
                      signes from all and all maner of troubles Molestacons letts greiu
                      ances hinderances or incumbrances whatsoeuer which any manner
                      of person or persons haue hath or may haue by any Interest title or
                      Claime By from or under mee my heires or Assignes and allsoe to
                      make all such assurance or Assurances as he sd James Jones his heires
                      or Assignes by his or theire Councell learned shall aduise or deuise
                  [p.451] In testimony Whereof I haue to this prsent Deed put my hand &
                      seale the [blank]            the marke of
                      Memdm that these 2 words     Nicholas Rice Seale
                        (& fourty) were interlined
                        betwixt the 8th & 9th line
                        before the ensealeing and
                        deliuery hereof—
                        Endorsed on the back side of the foregoeing Conueyance these
                      words followinge
                                       Mem
                        Signed sealed & deliuered and peaceable possession iiuery and
                      Seisin giuen by the wthin named Nicholas Rice to the wthin named
                      James Jones for them theire heires and Assignes according to the
                      usuall manner of England the day and yeare wthin specifyed In the
                      prsence of us to witt
                                                   Peter  Callaway
                                                      his marke
                                                   Geo: Johnson
                                                   Edward Martindale

                        Know all men by these prsents that I James Jones of Wiccocomoco
                      on the Easterne shore in the Prouince of Maryland Plantr haue Con
                      stituted appointed and giuen full power and Commission unto Capt
                      William Thorne of the same prouince to be my lawfull Attorney for
                      me and on my behalf e to deliuer into the Court att St Marys one deed
                      or writeinge made betweene Nicholas Rice of Wiccocomoco afore
                      said and mee the said James Jones wherein the said Nicholas Rice
                      doth assigne and make ouer a parcell of land lying on Wiccocomoco
                      riuer aforesaid unto me the said James Jones and the said deed or
                      writteing to gett recorded in the said Court at St Marys as allsoe to
                      receiue the acknowledgmt of the sd Nicholas Rice in open Court I
                      doe allsoe by these prsents giue power unto my said Attorney (in
                      Case of any hinderance) To substitute another in his steed for per
                      forming of the bussines aboue menconed and whatsoeuer my said