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     meanes in proceeding against any such person or persons as shall Liber A
     either refuse or delay to make Payment of any iust dew unto my
     sayd Atturney whome I doe also Authorise to giue acquittances and
     discharges in my name and one my behalf to any person or persons
     whatsoeuer that haue payd their Just dews and one Atturney or more
     under himselfe to make and them agayne at his Plesiur to reuoack
     and generallie to act and doe euerie thing and things whatsoeuer in
     and about the Premisses in as full ample and large a mannor as if I
     myself wear personallie presant to all intents and purposes whatso
     euer moreouer I doe hearby Ratifie and allow and Confirme whatso
     euer my sayd Atturney shall happen to doe in or about the premisses
     or shall Cause to bee done thearin in testimonie whearof I haue hear-
     unto set my hand this 27th of feb: Ao 166o
     the word presant was enterlined befor signing
     Sealed and Deliuered in      Jacob Johnson 0
      the Presance of us
         Humpherey Warring
         John Blakiston

      Know all men by thees presants tht I George Thompson of [p. 171]
     Charleses Countie in the Prouince of Mariland Gent: doe hearby bar-
     game and sell to and with Robert Taylor to him his heirs Executors
     Admininistrators and Assignes all that Parcell of land on the North
     side of Pascatoway Riuer lung one the south side of a Creeke of the
     sayd Riuer Called Chingamuckson Creeke begining at a marked oake
     standing by the walter side and runing northeast up the Creeke for
     the breadth the Lenght of one hundered and fiftie Pearches to a
     marked oake the bound tree of John Hatch bounding one the East
     with the Land of the sayd John Hatch for the Lenght of three hun- 410
     dered and twentie perches one the south with a line drawne southwest
     from the end of the formar Line for the Lenght of one hundered and
     fiftie pearches untill it intercept a parrarell Line drawne from the
     first oake one the west with the sayd Parrarell and Pascatoway Riuer
     on the North with the sayd Creeke Contayning and now Layd out for
     thre hundered acres more or lesse and I the sayd Thompson doe
     hearby oblige myselfe my heirs Executors Administrators or As
     signes to him the sayd Taylor his heirs Executors Administrators or
     Assignes to defend the sayd sayle against all Claime or Claims what
     soeuer bee the sayd Taylor his heirs Executors Administrators or
     Assignes yearly paying the Lord Proprietaries Rent which is and
     from time to time shal become dew, as witnes this my hand this 14th
     of Nouember Ao 1661          George Thompson
   Testes James Johnson
         John I N Neuill
           his marke