538 Charles County Court Proceedings, 1671—1674.

         Liber E    thinge or things device or devices, assurance or assurances whatsoev
               are requisite in the pmisses for the better assureinge & more firme
               makeinge of the aforesd bargained pmisses, unto him the sd Robert
               Ingolsby his heires & ass forever be it by inrolment of theise pntes,
               fine, feofmt or otherwayes, or by any such law full wayes or meanes,
               as by him the sd Robert Ingolsby his heires & ass, or his or their
               Councell learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised advized or
               required In witnes whereof the pties first above named to theise
               pnte Indentures have interchangeably Sett their hands & Seales the
               day & yeare first above written
               Signed Sealed & deIivd in the                William Thomas (loc
                 prsence of Edw Maddock                    sigil)
                        George Athys X mke        Signum
                                        Robert Ingolsby X (loc
                                                       sigil)

                 J obe Corner acknowledges a Tract of Land to John Hackister
               called Jobes comfort
                 This Indenture made the first day of August in the xxxiid yeare
               of the Dominion of Cecilius Lord Propryetary &c Annoq Dñi 1673:
               Between Jobe Corner of Charles County in the Province of Mary-
               land Plant of the one pte & John Hackister of the Same County
               Cooper of the other pte, Witnesseth that the sd Jobe Corner for &
               in considacon of the Sume of two thousand five hundred pounds
               of good Sound thchtable tob & caske & other valueable consideracons
               him hereunto moveing All wch the sd John Hackister hath allready
               pd & pformed to the sd Jobe Corner before the ensealeing & delivery
               of these prsents the receipt and pformance whereof he the sd Jobe
               Corner doth hereby acknowledge and him Self therewth to be fully
               Satisfied contented and pd & thereof and of pt & pcell thereof doth
               clearely acquitt exonerate and discharge the sd John Hackister his
               heyres Executors and Admrs for ever by these prsents Hath given
               granted Sold aliened enfeofeed & confirthd And by these presents
               doth give grant bargaine Sell enfeofee & confirm unto the sd John
               Hackister his heyres & assigns All that quantity or pcell of Land
               called Jobes Comfort Scituate lyeing and being in Charles County
               aforesd & begining at a bounded poplar Standing neare a bounded
               Gumm a bound Tree of William Heards Land on the East Side of
               the mayne fresh of Portobacco or St Thomas Creeke bounding upon
               the sd Heards land South one hundred & Sixty pches to a bounded
               Spanish Oke Standing upon a plaine, Thence East two hundred
               pches to a bounded red oke Standing upon the sd plaine thence
               North one hundred & Sixty pches untill it intersects a paralell drawne
               from the first bound Tree containeing and laid out for two hundred
               acres of Land be it more or less wth all and Singular its Rights
               Members and appurtenances Together wth all houses edifices build-