Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.207





  the said John Smith haueing Information that the said Roger hade Liber B
  some Suspition that the said John Smith might sute the hogge Rogger
  not owneing that he hade taxed the said Smith moore then another
  man & willing to liue peacablye as naybours ought to doe I doe hearby
  accknowledg Sorow for any wrong or Iniury that euer I haue Donne
  to the said Smith from the beggining of the world unto thes present
   of august 1660 And I the said Smith doe f rely Execept of the
  same frome the said Roger for full Sattisfaction wittnes owre hands
  thes 8th of august 1660       Signum
  Vara Copia Teste me           Roger R B Baxter
       Tobye Weells Clks        Signum
                                John Smith

    John Knight hath made apeare upon oath to thes Court that theare
  is dew to hime as a gift from the Lord propreetary fifty accurs of land
  for his transportation into thes province which he hath not yett taken
  upe nor Conuayed to any other Teste     Tobye Weells Clks


    To all Cristian peopell to whom thes presents shall Come Greating [fol. 91]
  Know yea that I Thomas Ringgould of the lie of Kent in the prov
  ince of Mariland Gent Doe Accknowledg my selfe to haue giuene and
  bequethed unto my sonnes John Ringgould and James Ringgould the
  one halfe of my land Called huntingfild which is in Estemation
  twelue hundred Accurs Lying on the Easte side of Chesapiacke bay
  Begining att a marked hocas beinge the nothermost bounds of MT
  Souths land I say the on halfe of that parsell of land which is Six
  hundred Accurs moore or lese According to Survay: beginge attt the
  Locus afore said and Ending att a Marked Chestnut tree which is
  marked with twelue notches standing upon the Banke by the bay side
  neare A march: I say all tht parsell of land before Mentioned: And
  deuided betwene both my Sonnes According to theire owne Desires
  att a Deepe vally gessed by them Selues to be in the middell of the
  six hundred Accurs and my sunne John to goe frome the vally to the
  Loccus abouesaid and my sonne James to goe frome the vally upward
  to the Chestnut tree I the said Thomas Ringgould doe bind my self e
  my heirs Exequtors Adminestorators to warrant the peaceable &
  quiett Injoyment of all that persell of Land Wth all the rights and
  previledges specified in the pattent to them theire heires Exequtors
  Adminestorators or Asigns for Euer As Wittnes my hand and seale
  thes seconde of December 1661 Tho: Ringgold
  Sealed signed and Dehiuered
    in the presents of
       Joseph Weekes
       Tobye Weells
  Thes deed wase Accknoweledged in open Court
                          Teste me Tobye Weells Clks