306 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




          Liber M M            The 10th July 1674

                  Came Constant Okieffe of St Marys County and desired the Eare
                Marke of his Cattle and Hoggs might be Entred vpon Record wch
                is as ifolloweth (vizt) Cropt Slitt and vnder Celd on both Eares

                          May the 19th 1674.

                  Came John Powell of St Maries County and desired his Eare
                Marke of his Cattle & Hoggs might be Entred vpon Record wch is as
                ifolloweth (vizt) Cropt in both Eare & a hole in the Left.

                  Whereas John Charlsworth of St Maries County hath recouered
                agt Mathias Decosta 2500ls Debt & 1892ls Tob: costs for which
                Judgemt is Entred These are to Certifie all whom these may con
                cerne that the Said Mathias wth Garret Vanswerengen haue accord
                ing to Act of Assembly in that case made & Provided confessed
                Judgemt for the Sd debt & costs wth a Stay of Execution till the
                tenth of October next Wittnes my hand this Eight Day of May
               1674                             Philip Calvert.

                 This Indenture mad the thirtith Day of May in the two and
                fortieth Yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honble Caecilius Abso
                lute Lord & Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon
            p.  228 Ld Baron of Baltimore &c And in the yeare of our Lord God One
                thousand Six hundred Seaventy foure. Betweene John Anderson
                of the County of Somerset in the Province of Maryland Planter and
                Ellinor his wife of the One Pty And Joseph Edloe of the County
                of Calvert in the Provce of Maryland Planter of the other ?ty
                Wittnesseth That they the Said John Anderson and Ellinor his Wife
                ifor & in Consideration of the Sume of Three thousands pounds of
                Tobacco to them in hand paid by the Said Joseph Edloe the Receipt
                Whereof they Doe hereby acknowledge there of & of Euery Part &
                Parcell thereof clearly & absolutely acquitt & discharge the said
                Joseph Edloe his heires Execrs Admrs or Assignes by these ptsents
                haue given, Granted Bargained & Sold Enfeoffed & Confirmed and
                by these prsents Doe give Grant Bargaine Sell Alien Enfeoffe &
                Confirme vnto him the said Joseph Edloe his heires or assignes all
                that Pcell or Devident of Land called Timber Neck Lyeing On the
                North Side of Petuxent River On the East Side of Chesipiak Bay
                Lyeing on a Creeke Called St Johns Creeke Beeginning for breadth
                at a marked Oake Standing by the Creeke side & running from the
                Said Oake East Twenty & five Pches to the Easterne branch of the
                Said Creeke bounded On the North wth a line Drawne from the
                mouth of the Said Eastern branch of the Said Creek North for
                length into the Woods Three hundred & twenty Pches bounded On
                the West wth a line drawne from the End of the former line \Vest