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     trew and Law full Atturney for mee in my name and for my use to Liber C
     Aske sew for leuy Recouer and Receaue any such debt or debts sume
     or sumes of tobaccoes or any thing els that shall Appeare by any
     mannor of way or meanes to bee in any wise dew unto mee the
     abouesayd whether by bond bill booke debt Accoumpt or what else
     soeuer and it shall lickwise bee lawfull for my sayd Atturney to
     acquite Exonoraet discharge imprison implead and out of prison
     to release any mannor of person or persons whatsoeuer that are by
     any mannor of way become obliged to mee and it shall lickwise
     for my sayd Atturny to impower one or more Atturneys to act
     under him on my behalfe and whatsoeuer hee or any of them doe
     in the abouesayd Praemisses shall bee as well done as if I my self e
     wear personally present in Confirmation whearof I haue hearunto
     set my hand and seale this 26th Aprill Ao 1666
    Seigned sealed and deliuered in     Edward Richardson
      presence of us as witneses 0
         Joseph Horton
         Robert Leeds

      This Indentur maed the eleuenth day of August Anno one thow- [p. 54]
     sand six hundered sixty & six betweene John Courts of Charleses
     County in the Prouince of Mariland Planter of the one party and
     Edward Philpot of the same County wheelright of the other Part
     witneseth that the sayd John Courts as well for and in consideration
     of the quantitie of tow thowsand pounds of tobacco and Caske in
     hand payd befor the ensealing and deliuery hearof by the sayd
     Edward Philpot whearof and whearwith the sayd John Courts doth
     acknowledg himself satisfied Contented and payd and thearof and
     of euery part and parcell thearof doth acquit and discharge the sayd
     Edward Philpot his heirs Executors Administrators and euery of
     them by thees Presents as also for diuers other good Causes and
     Considerations him hearunto moueing haue granted bargained and
     sould Assigned set ouer and Confirmed and by thees presents doe
     fully Clearly and Absolutly grant bargaine sell Assigne set ouer
     and Confirme unto the sayd Edward Philpot his heirs Executors
     Administrators and Assignes all that Parcell of Land situat Lung
     and beeing in Charleses County aformentioned Called the Courts
     Pallace lung on the North side of Patomacke Riuer and on the
     west side of the maine fresh of wickocomeko Riuer begining at a
     marked oake by the fresh side to a knowne Landing Place Runing
     west southwest into the woods for the breadth fifty Pearches to a
     marked oake bounding on the west by a line drawne North west
     and bee North for the lenght of too hundered twenty and flue [p. 551
     Pearches and with a line drawne North North west from the end
     of the North west and bee north line ninghty and flue Pearches to
     a marked oake on the North by a line drawne East north East from
     the sayd oake for breadth fifty pearches one the east by a line