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      promise and agree to and with the said Mark Cordea his heirs Liber C D
      Executors AdmTs and Assignes and every of them by these presents
      at any time whithin these sd seven years next coming at the reasonable
      request and at the Costs and Charges in the Law of him the sd Mark
      Cordea to do acknowledge make and Execute any other law full Con
      veyance or Conveyances assureance or Assureances in the Law
      whether it be by fine or recovery or Inroilment of this prssuits or
      otherwise whatsoever as by the Councill of the sd Mark Cordea
      learned in the Law shall be reasoneably adjudged devised or required
      provided the sd John Nutthall or his heirs be not obliged to travell
      out of this County for the doing acknowledging making and execut
      ing thereof provided always and it is the true Intent & meaning of
      these presents and the parties thereunto that if the sd John Nutthall
      his heirs Executors Adm.rs or assignes or any of them shall and
      do well and truely pay or cause to be paid to the sd Mark Cordea
      his Executors Adm.rs or assignes or any of them the full and just
      quantity or Sume of Three score thousand Pounds of good and
      merchantable Tobacco in Cask at two entire payments, that is to Say
      Thirty Thousand pounds part thereof at or upon the tenth day of
      October now next Ensueing the date hereof and Thirty Thousand
      pounds Residue of the said Sixty Thousand pounds of Tobacco in
      Cask upon the tenth day of October which shall be in the Year of
      our Lord One Thousand Six hundred and Seventy at some con
      venient place within the sd County of Saint Marys. That then this.
      present Indenture and all the Articles Clauses and Covenants therein
      Contained to be void and of none effect or else to Stand in full
      force power and Virtue in Testimony whereof the parties to this
      present Indenture have interchangeably hereunto Sett their hands
      and Seals the day and Year first above written.
       Acknowledged the 23.d day of March 1668
                                   Phillip Calvert Escp.

       Compton Gwyther aged one and twenty years or thereabouts
           Sworn Saith that in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
      Six hundred Sixty and Six he Transported into this province a
      Servant named John Griffith that he signed and Sealed
      Indenture with the said John Griffith for four years Service and
      no more that he sold the said Griffith to Thomas Paine for the sd
      Term of Four Years and no more that the Indenture afd is as Signed
      and Sealed in Wales in the Kingdom of England by the said John
      Griffith that is to Say the originall Indent.r of which a Coppy was (fol. 3)
      delivered in this province and further Saith not.
                                   Compton Gwyther.
       Juravit Coram me 3d Aprilis 1669.










                        Phillip Calvert