530  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.






               Liber F F  uinall Court held the 2d Jan: next There to answere what shall be
                      objected agst him and to receiue what that said Court shall doe
                      therein
                       The said Edmondson dds writt of summons for Arthur Wright
                      Francis Armstrong Thomas Goddard and James Shacklady to tes
                      tifye in ditto Causo undr the penalty of 5000lb tob
                       To the sherriffe of Talbott County

                 [p. 129] This Indenture made the ninth day of May in the yeare of our lord
                      God one thousand six hundred sixty & lower Betweene William
                      Dorrington of Calvert County in the Province of Maryland gent &
                      Ann his wife of the one pt & William Groome of Calvert County in
                      the province aforesd planter the other pt Wittnesseth that the sd
                      William Dorrington & Anne his wife for & in Consideracon of the
                      summe of forty three thousand five hundd pounds of good sound
                      mrchantable Tobacco & Caske by the sd Wm Groome at the ensealing
                      & delivery of theis presents well & truely to them in hand payd the
                      Receipt whereof they the said Wm Dorrington & Anne his wife doe
                      hereby acknowledge & thereof & of eury parte & pcell thereof doe
                      fully clearly & absolutely acquit exonerate & discharge the said W'm
                      Groome his heires Executrs & Admrs & every of them by theis pres
                      ents, Have granted, Alienated bargained sold & confirmed & by theis
                      prts do fully clearly and Absolutely grant, Alien bargaine Sell & Con
                      firme unto the said Willm Groome All tht certeine pcell of land lying
                      on the Sowth side of Petuxt river neere or vpon a creeke called Shon
                      ley creeke & on the North side of the sd creeke beginning at a marked
                      Pokicory standing neere the foot of a hill bounding on the East with
                      a line drawne North from the said Pokicory vnder the hill the length
                      of one hundd & twenty pches to a marked oke by a creeke called the
                      Indian creeke on the west with the sd river, on the Sowth with the
                      sd Shonley creeke, Conteyning by Estimacon foure hundd acres of
                      land be itt more or lesse, pcell of land aforesd is scituate lying
                      or being in Calvert County in the Province aforesaid & now in the
                      tenure or Occupacon of the Wm Dorrington & Ann his wife or of
                      their Assignee or Assignes, & all howses barnes stables Orchards
                      Gardens buildings, Rights, members benifitts & other hereditamth
                      with their & every of their appurtenances Royall Mynes & his lops.
                      Rents excepted, to the same belonging or with the same Cornonly
                      vsed occupied or enjoyed, or wch are excepted reputed or taken to be
                      pt or pcell or member of the same & of all & singuler the sd prmisses
                      to eury pte & pcell thereof Together with all & singuler Deeds Evi
                 [p. 130] dences Patts & writings whatsoever touching & concerning only the
                      prmisses or any pte thereof To have & to hold the sd pcell of land &
                      premisses with their appurtnces before by theis prts bargayned &
                      sould or menconed or intended to be thereby granted Aliened bar
                      gained sold & confirmed & eury pt & pcell thereof unto the said Wm