Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.  593

    changeably sett their hands & seales the day & yeare first above written Liber F
    Signed sealed & Delivered                    his marke [P. 16]
      in the presence of us     George Shenstone (locus) sigilli
         Cleborne Lomax   her marke
         Edward Abbot   Mary    Shenstone (locus) sigilli

      John Hackister acknowledges this ensueinge Conveyance in open
    Court to John Boswell
      This Indenture made the tenth day of November in the yeare of
    our Lord God one thousand six hundred seaventy & foure Betweene
    John Hackister of Charles County in the Province of Maryland
    Planter of the on part, And John Boswell planter of the other part,
    Wittnesseth, that the sd John Hackister as well for & in Consideracon
    of the sume of six thousand pounds of tobacco & Caske to him
    in hand by the sd John Boswell paid, the receipt whereof the sd
    John Hackister doth hereby acknowledge & himselfe to be therewith
    fully satisfied, Contented & paid, & thereof & therefrom & of &
    from every part & parcell thereof doth acquit & discharge the said
    John Boswell his heires Execrs & Admrs by these presents, As allsoe
    for divers other good Causes & Consideracons him thereunto move-
    ing; Hath bargained, aliened, sold, enfeoffed, Assigned & sett over
    unto the John Boswell his heires & Assignes for ever, All tht
    parcell or tract of Land Called (Jobs Comfort) being in Charles
    County in the woods on the East side of the maine Run of Porto-
    bacco Creeke, And begining at a bounded poplar standing neare a
    bounded gumm a bound tree of William Herds Land bounding upon
    the sd Herds Land South one hundred & sixty pearches to a bounded
    Spanish Oake standing upon a plaine thence North one hundred &
    sixty pearches untill it intersects a paralell drawne from the first
    bound tree, Containeing & laid out for two hundred acres, more
    or lesse, with all & singular the houses, buildings, pastures, woods,
    underwoods, wayes, water Courses, profitts, Comodities & ap-
    purtenances to the sd premises to any parte or parcell thereof
    belonging or in any wise appertaineinge, And allsoe all the estate,
    Right, title, Interest, use, property, possession, reversion, Claime
    & Demand of him the sd John Hackister of & in the same, to-
    gether with all Deeds, Writeings, Evidences, Manuscripts or papers
    touching or Concerning the same or any part or parcell thereof,
    To Have & to Hold the aforesd parcell of Land & all & singular
    other the premises before graunted, bargained & sold with their
    & every of their Rights, members & appurtenances whatsoever unto
    the said John Boswell his heires & Assignes for ever, And the sd
    John Hackister doth for himselfe his heires Execrs & Admrs Cove-
    nant, promise & grant to & with the sd John Boswell his heires Execrs
    Admrs & Assignes tht the premises now are & for ever hereafter
    shall be & Continue free & Cleare, & freely & Clearely acquited Ex-
    onerated & Discharged of & from all & singular former & other Bar- [p. 17]
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