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Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. 251 Jeromes Creek on the South with a line drawn west Southwest Liber CD from the mouth of the sd Creek unto the first marked Chesnut Tree & the first west line Containing & then Laid out for five thousand Seven hundred acres more or Less To be holden of the manno.r of West S.t marys in free and Common Soccage under the yearly Rent p. 204 of five pounds fourteen Shillings Sterling as by the Said Patent (fol. 244) may more at Large appear By Virtue whereof as they believe the s.d William Howley being Seized & possessed of the premisses the Sd W.m Howley by his Last Will & Testam.t in writeing as the Said Juro.rs are Informed Devised the sd Lands & premisses to W.m Gwyther who by Virtue thereof & of a Certain Decree made in the high Court of Chancery of this Province became Seized of the premisses & being So Seized & possessed of the prmisses did by his Indenture bearing date the Seventh day of Ap.ll Annocp Domini 1677 in Consideration of the Sume of thirteen thousand pounds of Tobacco in & by the Said Indenture menconed to be to him the S.d (fol. 245) William Gwyther paid by John Halfhead planter deceased the Re ceipt whereof the Said William Gwyther did thereby acknowledge and thereof did by those presents absolutely acquitt and discharge the S.d John Halfhead his heirs Executo.rs adm.rs and assigns and for the Rents & Services thereafter Received did bargain Sell alien Enfeoff & Confirm unto the Said John Halfhead all that Tract parcell or Divident of Land Called Brushie neck Beginning at Popes hog pen Runn & Running up the main branch Joyning upon the Land now in the possession of Nicholas Gwyther So far as the s.d branch Runs into the woods & from Popes hog pen up the bay to the Land of Stanhope Roberts Called Drappers Neck & from the head of Popers hog pen Runn Running with a line drawn north on the north of Brushie neck to Stanhope Roberts Land as the Certificate of Survey of the s.d five thousand Seven hundred acres of Land men tioneth be it more or Less with all & Every the appurtenances to the Same belonging he the Said John Halfhead his heirs or Assigns Paying therefore yearly & Every year unto the S .d William Gwyther his heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs or Assigns at the Said William Gwyther dwelling plantation the Rent of five Bushells of Sound Indian Shelled Corn at the feast of St Thomas the Apostle with a Clause of Reentry for the nonpaym.t of the Rent at the ifeast or within forty days after to hold the s.d Land & premisses Called Brushie neck w.th the appurtenances to the s.d John Halfhead his heirs & assigns for Ever warranty against him the Said William Gwyther or any Claiming by from or under him the Rents & Services due to his Lordship the Lord Prop.ry to be paid by the s.d William Gwyther his heirs & assigns for Ever as by the S.d Indenture under the hands and Seales of the William Gwyther & John Halfhead & to the Juro.rs aforesd produced may more at Large appear And the Juro.rs af.d do upon their Oaths further Say That |
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