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Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. 255 the head of the Said Creek till it Intersect a line drawn from the Liber CD head of Blunt Creek on the East the Said Blunt Creek Con taining and now laid out for one hundred acres or thereabouts be it more or Less, Together with all Rights and benefits thereunto be longing (Royall mines Excepted) To have and to hold the Same Lands and premisses unto him the Said Henry Lee his heirs and assigns for Ever, To be holden of the manno.T of New town in free and Common Soccage by fealty only for all Services Yeilding and paying therefore yearly to his Said Lordship Two Shillings in money Sterling or the Comoditys of the Country at the feast of our Lords Nativity by Virtue of w.ch Grant or Patent the Said Jurors do upon their Oaths Say that the S.d Henry Lee became Seized & possessed of y.e prmisses and being So Seized and pos sessed thereof the Said Henry Lee did make assignm.t thereof as the Said Jurors believe but to whom they know not the assignm.t on the back of the Patent being So much defaced, And the Said Jurors do further believe that the S.d Patent after Some assignm.ts was at Last assigned unto the Said Edwd Cotten And the Said Jurors do upon their Oaths further Say that John Nunn of S.t Marys County in the Province aforesaid planter in Consideracon of four hundred pounds of Tobacco & Cask by him received from John Shercliff and Henry Spink did Bargain Sell and Deliver unto the Said John Shercliff and Henry Spink all that parcell of Land Lying on New Town on the South Side of Brittons Bay Beginning from the Valley where the house of the Said John Shercliff & Henry Spink now Stands tending westward along the Said Bay to the furthest Bound of the Said John Nunn's Land as may appear by p. 208 the Patent or Grant of the Said Land under the Seale of the Said (fol. 249) Province unto him the Said John Nunn bearing date at S.t Inege's ifort the Second day of October in the year of our Lord 1647 By Estimation one hundred and fifty acres be it more or Less To have and to hold the Same unto them the Said John Shercliff & Henry (fol. 250) Spring their heirs and assigns for Ever paying unto the Said John Nunn therefore yearly one Bushell and a half of Corne at the Nativity of our Lord By Virtue of which Grant the Said Jurors do upon their Oaths Say that the Said John Shercliff and Henry Spink became Seized and possessed of the prmisses and being So Seized and possessed thereof the Said John Shercliff and Henry Spink did by their writeing under their hands bearing date the Twelfth day of ffebruary in the year of our Lord 1650 Being menconed & Endorsed at the foot of the Said Grant assign all their Right Title Interest of in & to the premisses unto the Sd Edw.d Cotten his heirs and assigns for Ever Excepting about an acre of Ground which they formerly Granted unto m.r Lawrence Starkey & as it is now marked out, And the S.d Jurors do upon their Oaths further Say that the Said Severall parcells of Land |
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