Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  261




        Know all men by these presents that I Gothofrid Harmar of the Liber M M
      County of Ann Arundell in the Province of Maryland doe hereby
      assigne and make Over all my right title and interest of the within
      mentioned Pattent and Land unto John Hatton of London Merchant
      warranting it from all claime or claimes that shall be laid unto it by
      any person or persons whatsoever as wittnes my hand this 26th of
      march 1660.                  Godhofryd Harmar
      Wittnes
      John Stanesby
      James Rigbe.
        On the backside of a patent granted Oliver Spry for Six hundred
      acres of land the 17th of January in the 27th yeare of the Dominion
      of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth 1658 was thus written
        Know all men by these presents that I Oliver Spry Senior planter
      in the County of Providence in the Province of Maryland me my
      heirs executors & assignes doth hereby assigne and make Over all
      my right title and interest of the within mentioned Pattent and land
      unto John Hatton of London merchant or his assignes Giveing and
      granting unto him aforesaid and warranting it unto him it from all
      claime or claimes whatsoever as wittnes my hand this 10th of Novem
      ber 1660                       me Oliver Sprye
      Tested by us
      Robt: Vaughan This assignmt acknowledged in Court by Oliver
      Thomas Stegoll Sprye and his wife 10th 9th mö
                            Teste James Rigbie

        This Indenture made the Sixtenth day of April in the two and
      fortith yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honble Caecilius Abso
      lute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Ava
      Ion Lord Baron of Baltemore &c and in the yeare of Our Lord God
      1674 Betweene Samuel Hatton of Talbott County Attorny of
      Thomas Hatton of Tewksbury in the County of Glocester and
      Kingdome of England Yeoman on the One part and Richard Keene
      of Calvert County in the said Province of Maryland Inholder on the
      other part Wittnesseth That whereas the said Lord Proprietary did
      by his Deed of Grant under the great seale of this Province beareing
      date the fourtenth day of January Anno 1658 for the considerations
      therein Named grant unto Gothf[rid] Harmar a parcell of Land
      called Mount Harmer lyeing on the east Side of Chesepiake Bay
      and On the north side of a River in the Said Bay called Sassafrax
      River neere unto the land laid Out for Axell Stile Begining On the
      west Side of a branch called Axells branch and runing south east
      up the river for bredth One hundred perches to a branch called
      Harmers branch bounding on the said branch runing North east
      up the branch for length three hundred and twenty perches On the
      north by a line drawn northwest from the end of the north northeast