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the Passing thereof, did Cause two Months Notice and upwards
to be given, in the Maryland & Pensilvania Gazettees, of their In-
tention of Selling, by way of Vendue, to the Highest Bidder, on the
11^th day of October then next following, all together, or in parcells
as might best Suit the Purchasers, and at twelve Months Credit if
required the Three Thousand Acres of Land in the said Act Men-
tioned. As a Platt of the said Land was necessary to enable them
to Lay Off the same into Parcells, if it should so Suit the Purchasers,
they did Employ a Surveyor to make an Accurate Survey thereof,
and thereupon found that the Quantity of Three Thousand two
hundred and fifty eight Acres was Contained within the Lines of
the two Tracts, whereof the whole Consisteth
On the aforesaid 11.^th Day of October they met on the said Land,
and, having divided the same into five several Parcels, they did, con-
formable to the directions of the said Act, and their said Notice
given, Sell the same to the Persons and at the Rates following Viz.^t

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 18

One Parcell containing.

One other Parcell con-
taining ...........

514
829

Acres to Bartlet Town-
shend at 9/ p Acre ...
Acres (one Acre where-
on is erected a Public
warehouse for the In-
spection of Tob.^o ex-

231..

217..

6..

I2..3

cepted to John M itch-

One other Parcell con-
taining ...........
One other Parcell con-

732
675

ell at 5/3 p Acre
Acres to the same at
6/. p Acre ........
Acres to the same at

218..

12..

taining ...........
One other Farcell con-
taining ...........

518

10/6 p Acre.......
Acres to Jo.^s Foreman
at 5/ p Acre .......

354

129..

7..6
10..

The whole ......

3268

Amount.^d in Dollar a.^t-
7/6 ea. to the sum of

£1152..

7..9

[Editors Note. The correct addition is £1151...7..9]

The Commissioners did, in Consequence of the said
Sale on the 17^th Day of November then next ensuing,
receive from the said Joseph Foreman in Dollars at 7/6
each the Sum of ................................
And take from the said Bartlet Townshend and John
Mitchell, severally, and their Sureties, Bonds Payable
to Bedingfield Hands Esq., then Treasurer of the East-
ern Shore, for the Sums from them respectively due
amounting to ..................................

£129.10.
1022.17.9

The Commissioners having received, in Money and Bonds as af.^d
the Sum of ...................................

1152..17..9

p. 433