Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     97

    Law full Attorney to acknowledge to Thomas Mount fort a deed of Liber FF
    sale for One hundred and fifty acres of land lying in Tredauen
    Creeke being a parcell of land formerly surueyed for samuell Tilgh-
    man and what Or said Attorney shall doe Wee doe Ratifye and
    Confirme as if Or selues were present Wittnes Our handes and seales
    this 5th of Decembr 1665       marke of (seale)
    Wittnes Tho: Mannyng       Francis F A Armstrong
          Henry Sewall           marke of (seale)
                            Frances F A Armstrong

      Cofhand Francis Armstrong & Frances Armstrong his wife that
    Justly &c: they Keep Thomas Mountlort the Couent of One
    hundred and fifty acres of land lying in Great Choptanck riuer in
    Tredauant Creeke On the North side of the Creeke beginning att
    a marked Oke and being a parcell of One Thowsand acres of land
    formerly surueyed for Capt Samuell Tilghman in the County of
    Talbott
      And the Agreemt is such that the said Francis Armstrong and
    Frances Armstrong his wife haue acknowledged the aforesaid One
    hundred and fifty acres of land (beginning att a marked Oke on
    the North side of the Creeke formerly Surueyed for Capt Samuell
    Tilghman & Running up the Creeke One hundred and fifty perches
    and into the woods according to the suruey of the Grant Pattent for
    the full quantity of One hundred and fifty acres of land wth free
    egresse and regresse and pastoredge for Horses Cattle and Hoggs
    into the rest of the woods belonging to the said Pattent) To be the [p. 349]
    Right of the said Thomas Mountfort as that which the said Thomas
    Mountfort hath of the gift of the said Francis Armstrong and
    Frances Armstrong and the same they haue remised and quitt
    Claimed from them and theire heires to the aforesaid Thomas Mount-
    fort and the heires of the aforesaid Thomas Mountlort for euer,
    And further the Francis Armstrong and Frances Armstrong
    haue granted for them and the heires of the said Francis Armstrong
    and Frances Armstrong that they will warrant to the aforesaid
    Thomas Mountfort and the heires of the said Tho: Mountfort the
    aforesaid One hundred and fifty acres, the aptnnces against them
    the said Francis Armstrong & Frances Armstrong for Euer, which
    land is adjoyning and binding upon the land of Egbert Garrison,
    To haue and to hold the said land for euer the said Mount fort and
    his heires for Euer paying to the said Armstrong and his heires for
    Euer Three shillings sterling yearely and euery yeare or the uallue
    thereof for Rent att the Feast of the Natiuity of Our sauiour Jesus
    Christ, And for this Recognicon quitt Claime the said Armstrong
    doe acknowledge to haue receiued a ualuable Consideracon, In wittnes