570 Charles County Court Proceedings, 1671—1674.

         Liber E     further, & other Act or Acts, thing or things, device or devices, assur-
               ance or assurances whatsoever Requisite in the premises, for the
               better Assureing & more sure makeing of the sd bargained premises,
               unto him the sd Philip Lymes his heires & Assignes for ever, be it by
               Inrolement of these presents, fine feoffement or other wayes, or by
               any other such law full wayes or meanes as by him the sd Philip
               Limes his heires or Assignes or his or their Councell Learned in the
               L4W shall be reasonably devised, Advised or required, In Wittness
               whereof the parties to these Indentures have Interchangeably here-
               unto sett their hands & seales the day & yeare first above written.
               Signed sealed & Delivered         Ralph Coates
                 in the presence of us whose      (locus) sigilli
                 names are here underwritten.
                    William Chandler
                    William Deane

         [p. 186] Thomas Baker acknowledgeth this parcell of Land menconed in
               the ensueing Conveyance to Samuell Cressey & his heires for ever.
                 This Indenture made the 11th of Augt Anno Domi (1674) Be-
               tweene Thomas Baker of Charles County planter of the one part, &
               Samuell Cressey of the same County of the other party Wittnesseth,
               that the sd Thomas Baker for & in Consideracon of a Certain sume
               of Tobacco to him in hand paid before the Ensealinge & delivery
               hereof, & for severall other Causes him thereunto moveing: Hath
               Given, granted, aliened, bargained, sold, Assigned, transferred,
               enfeoffed & Confirmed, and by these presents doth give, grant,
               aliene, bargaine, sell, Assigne, transferre, Enfeoffee & Confirme
               unto the sd Samuell Cressey his heires & Assignes for ever, All that
               part of a parcell of Land Called Marsh land which lieth on the
               Southermost side of a little Creeke, called Bakers Creeke, bounding
               on the south East with the mouth of the sd Creeke, & Running East
               three hundred & twenty pearches to a marked sauff, & from thence
               Running North till it come to a bounded white oake standing in a
               swamp at the head of the sd Bakers Creeke, & from the sd white
               oake bounding with the sd Creeke, as the Creeke runs, till it come to
               the mouth of the same, Conteineing the value of one hundred acres,
               be the same more or less: Together with all houses, Edifices, build-
               ings, Orchards, Gardens, & all & singular other the appurtenances
               or priviledges to the sd Land belonging, or in any manner of way
               apperteineing, Together with all Deeds, Writings, Evidences, thereto
               belonging or appertaineing, To have & to hold the sd Land & premises
               with their & every of their Rights, members & appurtenances to
               the sd Samuell Cressey his heires & Assignes to the sole & proper
               use and behoofe of the sd Samuell Cressey his heires & Assignes
               for ever, And the sd Samuell Cressey paying yearely the Ld Pro-
               prietarie's rent for the same, to the sd Thomas Baker his heires
               or Asspgnes, or to such officer or officers as shall be impowred in
               the behalfe of the Ld Proprietarie to receive the same, And the sd