490 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.




          Liber M M  for a valuable consideration had bargained and sold and by those
                  presents did bargaine & sell unto the said Edward Conery One parcell
                  of Land bounded as followeth Begining at a redd Oake with nine
                  notches standing neere the mouth of St Patricks Creeke from thence
                  to a white Oake Standing at the head of a branch of St Patricks
                  Creeke which was Mr Shancks bound tree So runing by Robert
                  Coopers and Gerard Breedings land and Mr ffoxhalls Land unto the
                  redd Oake where first begun conteineing by estimation two hundred
              p. 478 and twenty acres be the same more or lesse Scituate lyeing and being
                  in the Province of Maryland with free ingresse egresse & regress
                  for hoggs and Cattle and likewise free liberty of hunting hawkeing
                  fishing and fowling as also to fell trees and carry away timber for
                  the use of the said Conery To have and to hold the said two hundred
                  & twenty acres of land with all proviledges profits & Cothodities unto
                  him the Said Edward Conery his heirs and assignes forever Yeild
                  ing and paying yearly and every yeare unto him the said Thomas
                  Gerard his heirs or assignes One barrell of Sound Indian Come or
                  tenn shillings Sterling or One hundred pounds of good tobacco and
                  two Capons or a turkey henn forty dayes before or after Christmas
                  at the Mannour house of St Clements aforesaid and there to appeare
                  upon sumöns to doe homage & Service at all Courts Leets or Courts
                  Barons that might or should be held upon the Said Mannour ac
                  cording to the usuall custome of England or the Law of this Prov
                  ince And the said Thomas Gerard did by the same Indenture bind
                  himselfe his heirs executors & admrs & assignes to warrant defend
                  and mainteine the said bargaine and Sale of the abovesaid Land unto
                  the said Edward Conery his heirs executors admrs & assignes from
                  all just claimes or titles to be made by any person or persons what
                  soever as by the same Indenture more fully appeareth By virtue
                  of which Indenture the aforesaid Edward Conery into the said bar
                  gained premisses did enter and became thereof seized in his demesne
                  of ifee and the said Edward being so thereof Seized and possessed
                  and although he hath well & truly fuilfilled per formed and Kept all &
                  Singular the things in the Indenture aforesaid above specified On
                  his part to be performed fuilfilled & Kept according to the forme &
                  effect of the said Indenture Yet the said Edward in fact saith that one
                  Nehemiah Blackiston and Elizabeth his wife into the said bargained
                  lands and premisses in the possession & Seizin of the said Edward
                  Conery did enter and him from his possession thereof did expell
                  move & hold Out and him the said Edward from theme yet doth
                  hold Out and so the said Edward saith that the said Thomas Gerard
                  Esq in his life time & the said John & Rose Gerard since his death
                  though often required have not held but have broken the Covenant
                  aforesaid of that that the aforesaid Thomas Gerard his heirs executtrs
                  admrs or assignes would warrant defend & mainteine the said bar
                  gaine and Sale of the said lands & premisses unto the said Edward