Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667—68.    265

     dred and sixty perches to a marked Oake upon a point in the Forke Liber FF
     of the Creeke bounded on the north by a line drawne South west
     from the said Oake for length three hundred and twenty perches
     on the west by a line drawne South East and by South from the end
     of the south west line One hundred and sixty perches to a marked
     Live Oake upon a point by the side of a runn nuning Out of a Swamp
     into a marsh On the south by a line drawne north east by the marsh
     and the River unto the first marked Oake at the mouth of Turkey
     Creeke Containeing and then laid Out for three hundred and twenty
     Acres more or !esse together wth all Rights profitts and benefitts
     thereunto belonging Royall mines excepted And whereas also the
     said Caecilius Absolute Lord and proprietary of the said province of
     Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c did by his patent
     under the Greate Seale of his said province beareing date the said
     ninth day of March in the two and thirtith yeare of his Dominion
     Over the said province and in the yeare One thousand Six hundred
     sixty three for the Consideracons in the said patent expressed Grant
     unto Andrew Skinner of Talbott County Gent and Francis Riggs late
     of the County of Calvent deceased by the names of Andrew Skinner
     and Francis Riggs a parcell of land Called Franckford Saint michaels
     lying in Talbott County on the north side of Choptanck River in a
     creeke Called St Michaels Creeke Begining at a marked Oake stand-
     ing at the head of the branch of the Creeke and runing for breadth
     downe the creeke South East three hundred and sixty perches to a
     marked white Oake in a Cove by the Creeke side bounded On the
     South by a line drawne Southwest from the said Oake forty perches
     to a marked Oake marked with two notches and by a line drawne
     northwest forty perches to a marked white Oake being the north
     west bound tree of the land laid out for Thomas Biss called little
     Bristoll and from the said Oake by Biss his land drawne South west
     three hundred and twenty perches to a marked Oake on the west by
     a line drawne north west three hundred and twenty perches to a
     marked Oake and from the last named Oake three hundred and sixty
     perches unto the first marked Oake on the East by the Runn and
     Creeke Containeing and then laid Out for Seaven hundred And forty
     Acres more or lesse Together with all Rights profitts and benefltts
     thereunto belonging Roya!l mines excepted, To haue and to hold the
     said two parcells of land abouesaid to them the said Andrew Skinner
     and Francis Riggs theme heires and assignes for ever for and under
     certaine rents Services and reservations in the said patents of Grant [p. 5641
     expressed menconed and reserved as by the said patents of Grant
     recourse being thereunto had more fully and more at large it doth and
     may appeare which said two parceils of land are since come unto me
     the said Joseph Riggs now Know yee further that I the said Joseph
     Riggs for and in Consideracon of thirteene thousand pounds of to-
     bacco to me in hand paid by Thomas Lacey of Calvert County in the