Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     107

       Know all men by these prsents that I Fran: Armstrong of Talbott Liber FF
     County haue from me my heires Executors Admrs and Assignes haue [p.
     let fall'n my pattent granted to me for One hundred and fifty acres
     of land lying in Tredauen Creeke Called deep point as allsoe another
     pattent for fifty acres called Cornelius Neck, And I doe by these
     prsents for euer disclaime all my right title and Intrest of the said
     lands and for euer quitt Claime all Interest granted to me for the
     said lands by my said Pattents unto John Edmondson his heires and
     Assignes, To haue and to hould to him and his heires for euer,
     wthout lett Hinderance or molestacon of me the said Armstrong my
     heires or Assignes for the true and reall performance of the prmisses
     I haue hereunto sett my hand and seale this 4th July 1666
     Test Tho: Vaughan                marke
         Tho: Philips            Francis F A Armstrong

       This Indenture made the 3d day of sept in the yeare of Our Lord Enroled Ano
     God 1665 betweene Richard Tilghman Chirurgion of the One party 1666 July the 10th
     and Richard Preston of Caluert County Wittnesseth that the said
     Richard Tilghman haue granted bargained sold alyenated enfeoffed
     and confirmed and by these prsents for himselfe his heires Executors
     Administrators and Assignes, doe grant alienate bargaine sell enfeoffe
     and confirme unto the Richd Preston his heires Executors Adminis-
     trators and Assignes all that parcell of land formerly called by the
     name of the mannor of Canterbury lying on the East Side of Chese-
     piake Bay and on the north side of a riuer in the said Bay Called Chop-
     tanck riuer and on the south side of the Easterne branch of a Creek
     Called Tredauon Creeke, beginning att a marked Pine tree standing
     att the mouth of a Branch called Adams branch running East up the
     Branch for breadth flue hundred perches to a marked Oke near the
     head of the Branch bounded on the East by a line drawne South from [p. 369]
     the said Oke for lenth three hundred & twenty perches, on the south
     by a line west from the end of the south line for breadth Fiue hun-
     dred perches, untill it intersect a paralell drawne from Adams branch
     on the west wth the said Branch and parallell on the north by the said
     Creeke Containing and now laid out for One Thowsand acres more
     or lesse, Together all Royaltyes and Priuiledges most usually
     belonging to Mannors in England wth all the Estate Right title Intrest
     Claime and demands whatsoeuer the said Richard Tilghman hath off
     in and to the said lands hereafter made by any sale to any person
     or persons whatsoeur to haue and to hold the said lands wth euery
     part and parcell thereof unto the sd Richard Preston his heires and
     Assignes for euer freed & acquitted and at all times hereafter dis-
     charged by the said Richard Tilghman of and from all manner of
     former and Other Bargaines Sales and Leases forfeitures Joyntures
     Surrenders Judgmts Execucons and of and from all manner of incum-
     brances whatsoeuer in Confirmacon of which I the said Richard Tilgh