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