Charles County Court Proceedings, 1671—1674.     571

      Thomas Baker doth Covenant grant & agree for himself e his heires Liber E
      Execrs & Admrs with the sd Samuell Cressey his heires Execrs &
      Admrs that he the sd Samuell Cressey his heires Execrs & Admrs
      shall & may from time to time & at all times hereafter quietly &
      peaceably have, hold, use, occupy, possess & enjoy all & singular
      the premises hereby bargained & sold or intended to be bargained
      or sold without any lett, trouble, Eviction, Expulsion or Inter-
      ruption had, made, or done, or to be made or done, by the sd
      thomas Baker his heires Execrs or Admrs or any of them, And the
      Su thomas Baker doth for himselfe his heires Excers & Admrs further
      Covenant & agree, that hee the sd Thomas Baker his heires Execrs &
      Admrs the sd Land & premises with their rights, members & appurte-
      nances hereby sold or intended to be sold to him the sd Samuell
      Cressey his heires & Assignes to the use above menconed against
      him the Thomas Baker his heires Executrs Admrs or Assignes or
      any person or persons Claimeing by from or under them, or any of
      their, or by their or any of their Right, title, interest or procure-
      ment, shall & Will warrant & for ever defend by these presents, In
      Wittness whereof the parties abovenamed to these presents have
      interchangeably sett their hands & seales the day & yeare first above
      written.                 Thomas T Baker (locus)
      Signed sealed & Delivered   his marke
        in presence of us
           Edmund X Lindsey    Thomas Allanson
              his marke

        Thomas Allanson acknowledgeth this Ensueing Conveyance to [p. 187]
      Gerrard Browne.
        This Indenture the eighth day of Augt in the yeare of our Ld
      (1674) Betweene Thomas Allanson of Charles County Gentlm of
      the one party, & Gerrard Browne of the County aforesd planter of
      the other party, Wittnesseth, That the aforesd Thomas Allanson for
      severall good Causes & Consideracons him thereunto moveing, but
      more especially for & in Consideracon of a certaine sume of Tobacco
      to him in hand paid before the Ensealeing & Delivery hereof, the
      receipt whereof the sd Thomas doth acknowledge, & himselfe there-
      with fully satisfied & Contented & of every part & parcell thereof
      doth clearely acquit Exonerate & discharge the sd Gerrard Browne
      his heires Execrs & Admrs & every of them by these presents for
      ever, Hath Given, granted, bargained, aliened, sold, Assigned, trans-
      ferred, enfeoffed & Confirmed, & by these presents doth give, grant,
      bargaine, aliene, sell, Assigne, transferre, enifeoffee & Confirme
      unto the sd Gerrard Browne his heires & Assignes for ever all that
      parcell of Land lieing Scituate, & being in Charles County on the
      south side of Mattawoman or St Thomas Creeke in Christian Temple
      Mannr: Begining at a bounded oake the bound tree of Christian
      Temple Mannr ruñing south & by west three hundred pearches to a
      Spanish oake bounded with Six notches standing on the top of a