Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668.     283

    freely Give my Consent thereto Wittnesse my hand the 18th day of Liber FF
    October 1667                      Susanna Gerard
    Wittnesse Robert Slye
            Richard Upgate

      This Indenture made the twenty six day of October in the yeare [p. 5791
    of Our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and six betweene
    Thomas Gerard of St Clements Mannor Esq of the one party and
    Edward Connery of the Other party Wittnesseth that the said
    Thomas Gerard hath for a valuable Consideracon Bargained and
    sold and by these prsents Doth bargaine and sell unto the said Edward
    Connery One parcell of Land Bounded as Followeth Begining at a
    read Oake with nine notches standing nere to the mouth of St patricks
    Creeke from thence to a white Oake standing att the head of a branch
    of St patricks Creeke which is Mr Shankes bound tree, soe Runing by
    Robert Coopes land And Gerritt Breedinge Land and Mr Foxhalls
    Land unto the red Oake where was first begunn Containeing by
    Estemacon two hundred and twenty acres be it more or lesse Situate
    lying and being in the province of Maryland with free ingresse
    egresse and regresse for Hoggs and Cattell and likwise free liberty
    or Hunting Hawking fishing and fowling as also to fell trees and
    dray away timber for the use of the said Connery To have and to
    hold the said two hundred & twenty Acres of Land with all priv-
    iledges profitts and Comodities unto him the said Edward Connery
    his heires or assignes for ever, Yeilding and paying yearely and euy
    yeare unto him the said Thomas Gerard his heires or assignes One
    Barill of Sound Indian Corne or tenn shillings Sterling or One
    hundred pounds of Good tobacco and two Capons or a turkey hen
    forty dayes before or after Christmass at the Mannor House of St
    Clements aforesaid and there to appeare upon Sumons to doe homage
    and Service at all Court Leets and Court Barons that may or shall be
    Held upon the said mannor according to the usuall Custome of Eng-
    land or the law of this province, And the said Thomas Gerard doth
    binde himselfe his heires executors and admrs and assignes to war-
    rant defend and maintaine the said Bargaine and saile of the aboue-
    said land unto the said Edward Connery his heires executors admrs
    and assignes from all Just Claimes and titles to be made by any per-
    son or persons whatsoever, In Testimony whereof the parties aboue
    named to these prsent Indentures interchangably have sett there
    hands and seales the day and yeare aboue written, The abouesaid
    Land held of St Clements Mannor Thomas Gerard (Sealed)
    Signed Sealed and Delivered in the
      prsents of us with possession given
      with turfe and twigg
            the marke of
          Edward H Ransdell
          James Edmonds