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    dred forty nine, with such alteracon made the six and twentyth Day of Liber FF
    August one thousand six hundred Fifty one, bearing Date att St
    Mary's the Five and twentyth Day of May in the two and thirtyeth
    yeare of his said lops Dominion oü the said Province annoq domini
    One thousand six hundd sixty three Wittnes Charles Calut Esq
    leivtennt Generall of the Province and undr yearly Rent of Eleaven
    shillings sterling In silver Or gold Or the full vallue &c granted unto
    William Cole of the aforesaid Province gentleman for Five hundred
    and fifty acres of land (called Colebrooke) lying on the Easterne [p.734]
    shore of Chesepiake bay on the westermost side of Goase Creeke in
    Manokin riu beginning att a marked white oke twelue Notches
    seperating the said land from the land of John Elzey running up the
    said Creeke North North east the length of two hundred seventy
    five perches unto a marked White oke standing by a Marsh side
    thence running North west into the Woods the lenght of three hun-
    dred and twenty perches unto a marked Pyne Tree thence with a
    lyne drawne South South west the lenght of two hundred seaventy
    five perches unto a marked oke thence with a line drawne South
    East the lenght of Three hundred and twenty perches till itt inter-
    sect a Parallell with the first marked tree Conteyning and now laid
    out for Five hundred and Fifty acres more or lesse Is written this
    following assignmt vizt
      Know all men by theis pnts that wee William Cole and Sarah Cole
    of the County of St Mary's in the Province of Maryland for a Valu-
    able Consideracon to us in hand paid by Richard Whitty of the
    County of Somthsett in the pvince aforesaid the Receipt whereof wee
    doe acknowledge to have assigned and sett over to the said Richard
    Whitty all our right title interest claime and demand of in and to
    all the land Specifyed in the wthin menconed Patent To have and [P. 735]
    to hold the same to him the said Richard Witty his heires and as-
    signes To the only proper use of him the said Richard Whitty his
    heires and assignes for eü from us & either of our heires executors
    administrators and assignes for ever In wittnes whereof wee have
    hereunto sett our hands and Seales the fifteenth day of December
    in the Seaven and thirtyeth yeare of the Dominion of C'aecilius &c
    annoq domini One thousand six hundred sixty eight
    Signed Sealed & Deliued            the mke
      in the pnce of                William W C Cole
         Richard Moy                    of
                                     the mke
                      Sarah S C Cole
                                         of
                                     (Seale) (seale)
    Acknowledged in Open Court the Fifteenth Day of December one
    thousand six hundred sixty eight by the wthin named Wm Cole &
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