Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.601





    fortieth yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domi one LiberF
    thousand six hundred seaventy & foure, Betweene Captn William
    Boareman in the Province of Maryland and in the County of St
    Maries Gentleman on the one party And William Hatton of the sd
    Province & County Gentleman of the other party, Wittnesseth, That
    the sd William Boareman for & in Consideracon of the sume of
    twenty & foure thousand pounds of tobaccoe to him in hand paid
    by the said William Hatton before the ensealinge & Delivery hereof,
    The receipt whereof hee the sd William Boareman doth hereby
    acknowledge & thereof & of every part & parcell thereof doth
    clearely & absolutely acquit exonerate & discharge him the sd Wil-
    liam Hatton his Execrs & Admrs by these presents: And for divers
    other good Causes & Consideracons him thereunto moveing hath
    given, granted, bargained aliened, Sold, Assigned transferred, En-
    ifeoffed & Confirmed & by these presents doth give, grant, bargaine,
    sell, aliene, Assigne, transferre Enifeoffee & Confirme unto the sd
    William Hatton his heires & Assignes for ever, All that tract parcell
    & Dividend of Land formerly called Thompsons Rest lieing on the
    East side of Piscattaway River, on the north side of a Creeke in
    the sd River Called Piscattaway Creeke, next adjoyneinge to the
    Land laid out for Luke Barber Esqrnal & since resurveyed & Called
    Boaremans Content scituate lyeinge & being in Charles County, And
    Begininge at a bounded black walnut the Eastermost bound tree of
    Luke Barber Esqr neare the Creeke & runing thence East north
    East five hundred pearches to a bounded red Oake standing in a
    valley Encompassed with hills betweene the Freshes at the head of
    Piscattaway Creeke, thence north & by west three hundred & twenty
    pearches to a bounded white Oake standing by a fresh runn, thence
    west South west five hundred pearches to the sd Barbers land, thence
    untill it Comes unto the first bound tree, Containeinge & laid out
    for one thousand acres more or lesse, Together with all & singular
    the Lands, tenements, Rights, members, buildings, Orchards, gar-
    dens, hawkeings, huntings, Fishings, Fowlings, & all & singular the
    appurtenances & priviledges thereto any wayes appertaineing, as
    allsoe all & singular the Deeds Evidences, Patents, Graunts, Charters [p. 26]
    & Writeings whatsoever of or concerning the same, To have & to
    hold the Land & premises to him the sd William Hatton his heires
    & Assignes for ever, to the onely proper use & behoofe of him the sd
    William Hatton his heires & Assignes for ever, And the sd William
    Boareman doth hereby for himselfe his heires Exects & Admrs Cove-
    nant & agree to & with the sd William Hatton his heires Execrs &
    Admrs, That the sd William Boareman at the time of the Ensealeinge
    & Delivery of these presents is & standeth seized of the sd Land &
    premises with their appurtenances of a firme sure good & undefeazable
    estate of inheritance in fee simple, & that hee hath full right good
    power & lawfull Authority to grant, bargaine & sell the same to the sd
    William Hatton his heires & Assignes, And that hee will for ever