Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  431





     To the Honble the Gouernor and Councell     Liber F F
      These prsents humbly Sheweth               [p..2]
       That I Tho: Dent In Complyance and Obedience to a writt of
     Extnt directed to mee the 3d day of March 1664 and signed by the
     Honnble Philip Caluert Chancellor to Extend the moyety of any the
     lands Tenemts and Hereditamts of Thomas Gerrard late of St Clem
     ents Mannr Gent, haue warned these men hereafter menconed, who
     being Conuened aft the mannor howse of St Clements aforesaid be
     longing unto the said Gerrard to extend the moyety of the said man-
     nor And Veiwing the land Beginning att an oyster shell point neer
     the sd mannor howse and running up a Creeke Called the Back Creeke
     and soe along the Easterne side of the said Creeke Vntill yow come
     to a swampe called the maiden swamp and along the swamp to the
     end thereof, from thence by a direct line until yow meet wth the head
     of a Creeke that diuideth a neck called the Broade neck from the
     land of Mr Robert Cole deceased and thence along the said Creekes
     side to St Clements Bay and soe along the said Bay side and Poto
     make riuer side (including St Clements Island) untill yow come to
     the mouth of a Creeke Called Mattapeny Creeke and all along the
     easterne side of the said Creeke unto the aforesaid oystershell poynt)
     together other proffitts and Comodityes thereof doe Apprayse
     the same aft fourty seauen pounds thireteene shillings three pence
     sterling yearely which said land att the rate extended will in ffowre
     teene yeares make up the sume of six hundred sixty seuen pounds
     ffiue shillings and six pence wittnes my hand and scale and the handes
     and seales of all the rest who are Appraysers the 30th day of March
     anno Domiñ 1665
         Tho Dent    Seale   George Kinge   Seale
         Luke Gardner        Seale Robert Ratcliffe         Seale
         Wm Barton Seale     Robert R Parre  Seale
         Wm RosewellSeale    John  Goldsmyth Seale
         James Martin        Seale Edward  Turner Seale
         J uliu Smyth        Seale John    Gee    Seale
         James Edmonds       Seale Richardffostt  Seale


       Abraham ffoxall by his Attorney John ffoxall dds writt agt [p.3]
     Absolon Couant in an accon of his Case upon Trouer and Conuer- Aprill 17th
     sion to the uallue of ffiffty thowsand pounds of tobaccoe
       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c Ret 13th June
     next Prouinall Court

    To  the honnble the Gouernot and Councell of the Prouince of
        Maryland
       The humble petn of Abraham ffoxall by his Atturney John ffoxall
     Sheweth