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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 |
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