506 Charles County Court Proceedings, 1662-1666.





            Liber B The Pit declaers against the defendant in an action of debt: for
                  1000 lb of tobacco and Caske by vertue of a bill from under the hand
                  of the sayd batchelor as more at large may appeare by the aforsayd
                  bill which sayd debt beeing demanded and as yet remaines unsatisfied
                  the defendant refuseth payment thearof whearfor the plantiue hath
                  entered her suit: humbly Crauing order of Court for her sayd debt
                  with Cost and Charge of suit &c

                    In Confirmation of which Declaration the Plt Produced this ensu
                  ing bill:
                    This bill bindeth mee francis batchelor my heirs or Assignes to pay
                  or Cause to bee payd unto Mis Agatha Langworth of Charleses
                  County her heirs or Assigns the full and just sum of one thowsand
                  pounds of tobacco and Caske to bee payd in sum Conuenient place in
                  Charleses County at or upon the tenth day of Nouember in the
                  year one thowsand six hundered sixtie and three as witnes my hand
                  this eighteenth day of Nouember 1662 Fran Batchelor
                 testis Zachery Waed
                      William Hall:

                    Wearupon the defendant objected against the letter of Atturney
                  alleaging that it was inuallide by reason of the Marginall noat and
                  humbly requesteth that the Pit might proue his letter of Atturney
                  which at present hee not beeing abell to doe the defendant crauet
                  an abaetment of the writ with Cost and Charge of suit which is
                  granted:

            [p. 349] William Heard and his wife came and in open Court acknowledged
                  this ensuing bill of sayle unto Thomas Baker
                    This Indentur maed the twenty third day of Aprill in the yeare of
                  owr Lord one thowsand six hundered and sixty between Thomas
                  Baker of the Prouince of Mariland Planter on the one party and
                  William Empson of the sayd Prouince planter on the other party
                  witneseth that the sayd Thomas baker hath bargained with and sould
                  and by thees Presents doe bargaine with and freely sell unto the sayd
                  William Empson his heirs Executors Administrators or Assignes one
                  peece or parcell of land lung situating and beeing upon Patomake
                  Riuer side in the prouince aforsayd begining at the bound tree stand
                  ing near the mouth of small Creeke Called hakers Creeke as is in
                  the Patten expressed and so runing by the riuer side to a marked
                  Oake with six notches standing in a hollow and so runing by marked
                  trees up into the woods till it cums to a valley and so runing downe
                  the sayd valley by marked trees till it Cums to a marked ash with six
                  notches standing by a marsh belonging to the aformentioned Creeke
                  with all Rits benefits and appurtenances thearunto belonging as far
                  forth in euery particular as is granted to mee by patten hee or thay
                  to enioy the same for euer I the sayd Thomas baker hearby binding