406Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664-65.





                 Liber B B On the back side of a pattent bearing date the 5th day of January
                  [p. in the 28 yeare of his Lordsps Dominion anno 1659 Granted to
                      Robert Jones for 6oo acres of land Called Iske lying on the East
                      side of Chesepiake Bay and on the north side of a riuer in the said
                      Bay Called Chester Riuer was this assignmt (uizt)
                        I Robert Jones liuing in St Georges Hundred in the prouince of
                      Maryland doe Assigne all my right title and Interest of the within
                      said pattent unto John Pickering of the Citty of Bristol salter as
                      wittnes my hand this 19th day of January 1664
                        Wittnes     Robt Jones
                           William Willett his marke
                           Gasper Taylor

                        This Indenture made the first day of March in the yeare of Our
                      Lord God 1664 Betweene Robert Jones & Sarah his wife of st Georges
                      Hundred in the prouince of Maryland of the One party and John
                      Pickering of the Citty of Bristoll salter of the other party Wittness
                      eth that the said Robert Jones and Sarah his wife for a ualuable
                      Consideracon in hand allready receiued by them the said Robert
                      Jones and Sarah his wife from the said Pickering, Haue granted
                      Bargained sold Alienated infeoffed and Confirmed and by theis
                      prsents for themselues theire Heires Executors Administrators and
                      Assignes, Doe grant Bargaine sell Alienate infeoffe and Confirme
                      unto the said John Pickering his heires Executors Administrators and
                      Assignes, All that parcell of land Called Iske lying on the East side
                      of Chesepiake Bay and on the North side of a riuer in the said Bay
                      called Chester riuer, beginning att a markt Cedar tree standing uppon
                      a point by a marsh running North west by the riuer side for breadth
                      300 perches to a markt Oake uppon a point bounding on the East by
                      a line drawne southwest from the said Oke for length 320 perches
                      On the North by a line drawne south East from the end of the south
                      west line for breadth 300 perches On the west by a line drawne North
                      East from the end of the south East line unto the first markt Cedar
                      On the south by the said riuer, Conteyning and now laid out for six
                      hundred acres more or lesse With all Edifices, Howses, proffitts, Pat-
                      tents writeings Comodities and Heriditamts to the same belonging
                      or in any wise appertaining And all the Estate right title Interest
                      Claime and demand wtsoeuer they they the said Robert Jones and
                      Sarah his wife haue of & in to the said six hundred acres aforesaid
                      and any part or parcell thereof by uertue of any Grant Bargaine or
                      Sale heretofore made to them the said Robert Jones and Sarah his
                      wife by any prson or prsons whatsoeuer To haue and to hould the
                 [p. 496] said Six hundred acres of land and euery part and parcell thereof
                      unto the said John Pickering his heires Executors Administrars and
                      Assignes to the onely proper Vse and behoofe of the said John Pick
                      ering his heires and Assignes for euer freed acquitted and at all times