Kent County Court Proceedings, 1668-1671.239







   sand one hundred & thirty pounds of Tobacco & Cask wth Cost of Liber C
   Seute Elce Exeqtion &c

   mr Georg Gouldhauk PIaint in ann acction of Debt whearupon he
   mr John vickerice Defendt demaundeth a debt dew for a boat thre
   hundred and fifty pounds of tobb and for half a barrell of indian
   Corne one hundred pounds of Tobacco & makes his debt apeare to be
   dew thearfore this Court doth order present payment of the said
   thre hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco & Cask and half a barrell
   of good Indian Corne or one hundred pounds of tobacco at the Choise
   of the defendt and Cost of Sent Elc exeqtion &c

   Tho Collens Plaint  in ann acction of the Casse This Court
   mr John Vickerice defendt being not Fully sattisfled haue Respected
                     it tell next Court

    This day Frances Sembreck Saruant to John meconicon came
   into Court & demaunded hir fredom and hath made apeare that she
   hath Sarued according to the acct of Assimbly This Court doth order
   that she shall be fre & that hir said master shall pay hir one barrell
   of good Indian Corne upon demaund being in Consideration of what
   is dew to hir by the Custom of the Cunetry for hir sarues & to this
   thay both are fully agread & theare upon doth discharg Each other
   from all debts dewes & demaunds from the begining of the world
   untell this present day only the barrell of Corne

    Caecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Prouinces of [fol. 4]
   Maryland and Aualon Lord Barron of Baltimore &c To all psons to
   whom this Presents shall come Greating in our lord god euerlasting
   Know yee that we for and in Consideratiö that Henry Downes of
   this Prouince Planter hath dew unto him thre hundred accurs of land
   within this Prouince for transporting himself his wife James Dar
   don Richard whitten Frances Sewell & Richard Chapman in to this
   Prouince heare to Inhabet as apeares upon record And upon Such
   Conditions & termes as are Expresed in owr Conditions of plantation
   of owr prouince of Maryland under owr grater Seale at Armes bare
   ing date at London the the second day of Jully in the yeare of owr
   lord god 1649 with Such allteration as in there is made by owr dec
   laration bareing date the two & twentieth day of September Anno
   1658 and remaineing upon record in owr Said Prouince of Maryland
   Doe hearby Grant unto him the said Henry Downes a parseil of land
   called Hay downe lying on a Riuer one the East side of the bay in
   baltimore County Called elke Riuer & one the South side of the Said
   Riuer in a Creeke called Capt Johns Creek one the South Side of the
   said Creek begining at a marked Spanich Oake standing one a huckell
   bury point by a branch Called gouldsmith branch runing from the
   said oake for hredth downe the creek flinty Perches to a marked
   Oake standing in a branch called downes branch being the first branch