Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.     461

     Shall thinke fltt as witness my hand and Seal this xxiith Day of Liber JJ
     September Anno Domini MDClxix &c
Signed Sealed & Deliured       the marke of
       in prsence of us  Elizabeth E winchester (Scaled)
        the marke of          and Seale
          Joseph W winchester
            the marke of
          wiliam X Pledge
          Tobias wells

       To all Christan People to whome these prsents Shall Come I Josias [p. 13]
     Fendall of Charles County in the Province of Maryland Esq Send
     Greeting Know yee tht whereas Caecilius Absolute Lord and proprie-
     tary of the Provinces afore Said & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
     &c Did by his Pattent under his Great Seal of his Said Province of
     Maryland bareing Date the Second Day of July in the yeare of our
     Lord God one thousand Six hundred forty Nine for the Considera-
     tion in the sd Pattent Expresed Grant unto me the Said Josias Fendall
     by the Name of Josias Fendall Esq a pcell of Land Called Grate Oake
     Lyeing one the East Side of Chesepiack bay and on the South Side of
     a Bay in the Said Bay Called Bacon bay begining at a marked oake
     by the Creeke Side running for bredth North North west to the Mouth
     of Bacon Bay two hundred twenty and flue perches and South South
     west Downe Chesepiack Bay to a marked Oake by a Creeke Called
     Fendalls Creeke Six hundred thirty flue perches bounding one the
     South by a Lyne Drawne East from the Said Oake five hundred
     Perches on the East by a Lyne Drawne North from the End of the
     East Lyne flue hundred perches on the North by a Lyne Drawne west
     from the End of the North Lyne one hundred and fifty perches to
     the first marked oake Containeing & Laid out for two thousand
     Acres more or Less Togeither wth all pro fetts Right & Beneffitts there-
     unto belonging Royall Mines Excepted, to haue & to hould the Same
     to me the Said Josias Fendall my heires & Assignes for Euer for &
     under Certaine Rents Seruices resuruatioñ in the Said patent of grant
     mentioned Expressed & Reserued as by the said Patent recourse being
     there unto had more at Large appeareth Now Know yee tht I the Said
     Josias Fendall for and in Consideration of the Sume of twenty three
     thousand pownds of Tobacco & Caske to me paid by John vanheck
     of Baltemore County in the Prouince afore Said Gent the Receipt
     whereof I doe hereby Acknowledge and thereof and of Euery pt &
     pcell thereof Doe Cleerely and absolutely accquit and Discharge the
     Said John vanheick his Heires Executrs and Administors for Euer
     by these prsents Haue giuen granted Bargained and Sould and by
     these prsents Doe giue grant bargaine and Sell unto him the Said John
     vanheeck his heires & Assignes all the Said parcell of land by the Said