Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664-65. 409






     County Called Choptanck Riuer and on the East side of the south Liber B B
     branch of a Creeke in the said riuer Called St Michaells Creeke And
     that Mr Robert Skinner of the Citty of Bristoll Merchant hath bought
     and purchaced of the abouesaid John Smyth and William Robinson
     theire parts and parcells of the said land being two thirds of the said
     land, Now Further know yee that wee the abouesaid George Watts
     and Robert Skinner for the auoiding of Contention which might
     hereafter arise about the deuiding the said land haue caused the said
     land to be deuided, wth the Mutuall Consent of both partyes as fol
     loweth (uizt) George Watts part being one thirde of the said land
     to begin at the first bound tree of the said land and to runn up the
     branch for breadth to a markt white Oake att the head of a ualley
     neer the branch side and to runn from the said Oke south East for
     length into the woods the whole length of the land and Robert Skin
     ners part being two thirds to runn from the aforesaid white Oake
     up the branch unto a marked Oke neer the head of the branch being
     the uppermost bound tree of the said Deuidend of land and to runn
     the whole length of the land south East into the woods and this deui
     sion soe made by Vs wth our Mutuall Consent to be irreuocable in
     law In wittnes whereof wee the said Robert Skinner and George
     Watts haue sett to both Our handes & scales the eighteenth day of
     February 1664
       Signed sealed & deliueredRobert Skinner    Seale
       In the prsence of Vs          marke
          Andrew Skinner       George  Watts scale
          Henry Parker            and scale

       Know all men by these prsents that I John Smyth of Nominy in
     the County of Westmerland in Virgenia doe Constitute and appoint
     my louing freinde Wm Smyth of the Prouince of Maryland Carpen
     ter my true & lawfull Atturney for me and in my name to acknowl
     edge unto Mr Robert Skinner of Bristoll merchant in the Prouinail
     Court of Maryland my full & whole part and share of Eleauen hun
     dred acres of land as by my assignmt uppon the pattent will appeare
     Giuing and Granting unto my said Atturney as full power as any [p. 499]
     Atturney haue or ought to haue, and whatsoeuer my said Atturney
     shall lawfully doe or Cause to be done in and about the prmisses, I doe
     by these prsents Ratifye allow and stablish In wittnes whereof I haue
     hereto sett my hand and scale the 24th day of January 1664—
       Testes                     John Smyth Seale
          Augustine Hull
          John   Chase
            his marke
       By uertue of the foregoeing letter of Atturney Willm Smyth the
     party impowred did on the March 1664/5 in Open Court acknowl
     edge on the behalf e of John Smyth unto Robert Skinner all his the