Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  523






        Know all men by these prsents that I Nicolas Gwyther of St Marys Liber F F
       County in the Prouince of Maryland gent: doe hereby Constitute and
       Appoynt my Louing freinde Abraham Rowse of Charles County in
       the abouesaid Prouince merchant my true & lawfull Attorney, for
       mee and in my name for to Confirme unto Geo: Newman of Charles
       County abouesaide a parcell of land of three hundred acres more or
       less as more at large will appeare, by an Indenture from undr my
       hand and seale bearing date the two & twentyth of Septembr 1665,
       Rattifying and Confirming all that my said Attorney shall lawfully Verte
       doe giuing my said Attorney full power and Authority to Constitute [p. 119]
       & appoint any Other Attorney if he shall see Cause, Allowing wt my
       abouesaid Attorney shall doe in the premisses abouesaid as if I were
       there prsonall prsent as wittnes my hand this 18th Septembr 1665
       I say & seale, interlined the words (& other Attorney) in the 13th line
       before signed or sealed       Nicholas Gwyther
        Testes
           John Mettcalfe
             the marke of
           Robert  Owins
        This Indenture made the 22th day of Septembr 1665 Betweene
       Capt Nicholas Gwyther of St Marys County Gent, in the Prouince
       of Maryland of the One party And George Newman of Charles
       County in the same Prouince Plantr of the other party Wittnesseth
       that the said Nycolas Gwyther for & in Consideracon of the quan
       tity of three thowsand two hundred pnds of Tobacco and Caske in
       hand paid before the Ensealing and deliuery hereof by the said George
       Newman whereof & wherewth the said Nic° Gwyther doth acknowl
       edge himself e sattisfyed Contented & paid and thereof and euery part
       and parcell thereof, doe acquitt & discharge the said George Newman
       his heires Executors and Administrators & euery of them by these
       prsents as allsoe for diuers other good Causes and Consideracons him
       hereunto mouing, Haue granted bargained & sould Assigned & sett
       Ouer and Confirmed & by these prsents doe fully Clearely and Ab
       solutely Grant Bargaine Sell Assigne Sett Ouer and Confirme, unto
       the said George Newman his heires Executors Administrs and As
       signes all that parcell of land scituate lying & being in Charles County
       aforemenconed lying on the north side of Potomacke riuer neer Mr
       Neales back Creeke and bounding on the south the said riuer and
       Creeke, on the west a line drawne from a Marsh in the said riuer
       Called white oke marsh north into the woods for the length of one
       hundred & twenty perches On the north wth a line drawne East from [p. 120]
       the end of the former line into the woods for the length of ninety
       perches on the west with a line drawne south and by west from the
       end of the former line untill it falls into a branch Called Simkins
       branch Contayning and now laid out for One hundred acres more or
       less, Adjoyning One Hungerfords land formerly in the possession