244Kent County Court Proceedings, 1668-1671.







          Liber C ing and Granting unto my Said Atturney my full and whole power
               and Authority in the premisses two Arrest and Implead Imprisson or
               Cause to be Condemned and Release the Said debtors recouer and
               receiue & thereupon finally Accord and Acquitt letters of Acquittance
               and other discharges for me and in my Name to Compound Seale
               and deliuer Atturney or Atturneys one or more under him to ordaine
               Sett and att his pleasure againe reuoake and moreouer Execute per
               forme Conclude and finish as thoroughly hollie Surely as I my Should
               doe as if I weare there in my owne person present and all that euer
               my said Atturney shall doe or Cause to be donne we the Said palmer
               and William Bishop will Acknowledge as donne by our Selues and
               for the premasses we promis to Allow performe Rattif ye and stab
               lish and hereto we bind us our heirs and Assignes by these presence
               In witnes whereof I haue sett my hand and Seale this Nineteenth
               day of March one Thousand Six hundred and Sixty Seauen
               Sealed & deliuered in            his
                the presence of us        Robert R Palmer
                   Francis Gill             marke & seale
                             Ninan Beall
               Acknowledged in Court and ordered to be recorded
                                          Test John Wright Clã

                This Indenture Made the 3d day of February 1667 witnesseth that
               mrs Sarrah Brookes of the County of Kent In the Prouince of Mary
               land hath Sett and lett unto John Trew and William Trew both of
               the Same place one plantation & orchard Sittuate one the Said Island
               formerly Henery Gotts plantation & now in the Tennr and occupation
               of the Said J n° and Wm Trew to haue & to hould the said plantation
               with all the housing & orchards upon the Said land for the Terme of
               Seauen yeares next Insueing to be Computed from the day of the
               date hereof onely Excepted that the Said Jn° & wm shall not haue
               any thing to doe with that part of the uncleared land Next Adjoyning
               to the plantation of the Said mrs Brookes but all other land Cleared &
               uncleared the said John and Wm may Make use of as Aforesaid but
               onely what is betwixt the said Gotts Cleared ground on the westerne
               bay & the Cleared ground of the Said mrs Brookes alsoe the Said Jn°
               is to plant soe many Trees such as she the Said mrs Brookes shall
               appointe as in a decent mannr shall fill up the orchard that is now
               fenced in & what housing or Fences the Said John & wm shall build
               or Cause to be builded or made for their use they are to leaue them
               tennantable at the Expiration of the Said Terme & to pay the rent
               dew to the Right Honnrable the Lord propriatory According to the
               Conditions of plantations yearlye & for further Consideration of the
               premises the Said Jn° & Wm Trew doth bind themselues or their As
               signes to pay unto the Said Sarah Brookes or her order the yearly
               Rent of one Thousand Six hundred pounds of Tobacco at or upon