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      John Harvey demands a writt agt Jno Mould, warrt to the She: Liber E
     ret. ut Supra
      non est inventus                           Sheriffs ret.

     Att a Court held for the Lord Propryetary in Charles County the
            10th day of September, Anno Dni 1672.

                     Commishoners prsent:
                        Mr Hen: Adams
          Mr Tho: Mathews   Mr John Stone
          Mr Ignatius Causine Mr John Bowles
          Mr John Douglas   Mr Robert Henly
          Mr Thomas Hussey  Mr Stephen Mountague

      Richard Morris acknowledgeth this ensueing Conveyance of land
     unto Sander Smith of this County
      This Indenture made the twentyeth day of Septembr in the fortyeth
     yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius Annoq Dmi 1672: By and
     Betweene Richard Morris of the County of St Maryes in this Prov-
     ince planter of the one part, and Allexander Smith of Charles County
     in the aforesaid Province of the other part, Witnesseth tht the sd
     Rich Morris f or and in consideracon of the quantity of three thou-
     sand pounds of tobacco unto him the said Richard Morris before
     the ensealeing and delivery of these prsents by the said Smith well
     & truely payd the receipt whereof the said Richard Morris doeth
     hereby acknowledge and him selfe therewith fully Satisfyed con-
     tented and paid and thereof and of every part and parcell thereof
     doeth clearely acquitt exonerat and discharge the said Allexander
     Smith his heyres Executors and Administrators and every of them
     forever by these prsents hath given granted bargained aliened
     Sould assigned and Set over, and by these prsents doeth give grant
     bargayne Sell assigne and sett over unto him the said Allexander
     Smith his heyres and assignes forever all that parcell or Tract of
     Land lyeing Scituate and being in Charles County aforesd upon the
     west side of Wiccomaco fresh adjoyneing to the land of William
     Barton Junr formerly Sold by Daniell Johnson deceased to him the
     said Rich Morris Butting and Bounding as followeth, To say be- [fol. 72]
     gining at begining of John Clarkes bound tree bounding on the west
     by a lyne drawne South and by east from the sd oake for length
     one hundred and Sixty pches to a marked oake on the South by a
     lyne east and by South for breadth one hundred pches to a marked
     Guffie in a Swamp on the east by a lyne drawne North and by west
     into a parcell of land after menconed the above sd land layd out
     for two hundred acres more or lesse allso another tract of land be-
     gining in the South lyne of the sd land aforesd being the west bound
     at a marked oke bounding on the South by a lyne drawne east
     South east for breadth fifety pces to a marked oake in a Swamp on
     the East by a lyne drawne North North east from the oake for
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