Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.  555

     Guardian of Robert Atchinson an Infant under the age of one and Liber P C
     twenty yeares and sonne and heyre of Vincent Atchinson, and
     Hannah his wife and the said Robert Atchinson Defendants thereby
     setting forth That whereas the said Vincent Atchinson late of Kent
     County in the said Province Plantr and Hannah his wife both p. 163
     deceased were in the Right of the said Hannah Seized in theire
     demeasne as of ffee of and in a Tract of Land called Colchester &
     lyeing formerly in Talbott County and now in Kent County on the
     North Side of Chester River above the divideing, And on the
     Westerne side of a Creeke called Morgans Creeke Beginning at a
     marked Oake and runing for breadth north east up the Creeke foure
     hundred pches to another marked Oake Standing by the Creeke side,
     Bounding on the north by a Line drawne North west for length foure
     hundred perches, from the said Oake on the west by a Line drawne
     south west from the end of the north west Line foure hundred
     perches, On the South by a Line drawne south east from the end of
     the south west Line foure hundred perches to the ferst marked Oake,
     On the east by the said Creeke Containing by estimacon One thou-
     sand acres of land bee the same more or lesse, And being soe seized
     and possessed hee the said Vincent Atchinson, and Hannah his wife
     Did for the Consideracon of the sume of tenn thousand pounds of
     tobacco to them to bee well and truely paid or secured to bee paid by
     the said Complaynant, Upon the foure and twentieth day of Novem-
     ber One thousand six hundred Seaventy five Contract and agree to
     sell assure, grant and convey by sufficient Deed and Conveyance in
     the Lawe Duely executed, and to bee by them the said Vincent
     Atchinson and Hannah his wife acknowledged in open Court in
     Kent County Court, The said Tract or pcell of land, with the appur-
     tenances thereunto belonging before mentioned, To hold to the said
     Complaynant his heires and assigns forever, free and cleare of all
     incumbrances whatsoever had made or Done by them or either of
     them, And with warranty against them or either of them & theire
     heires and all Clayming by from or under them or either of them,
     the rents and services hereafter to become due and payable to the
     Lord of the ffee thereof onely excepted, In pursuance of wch Contract
     and agreemt the said Complt Did pay unto the said Vincent Atchinson
     in his lifetime in part of Satisfaccon for the purchase of the said
     land, The sume of seaven thousand pounds of tobacco, and thereupon
     bee the said Vincent Atchinson did by his certaine Bond or obli-
     gacon undr his hand and seale bearing date the said foure and twen-
     tieth day of November aforesaid, Become bound unto the said
     Complaynt in the sume of Twenty thousand pounds of tobacco with
     condicon thereunder written That the above bounden Vincent At-
     chinson his heires Executors or Admrs or either of them should
     well & truly acknowledge by good and firm Deeds and Conveyances