684               Appendix.


         LiberP.C.R. Thomas Ticknor (pr Attornat Capt Samuel Tilghman) dds wart
           ffebruary agst Zachary Wade, Admistrator of John Wade Chyrurgeon de
                 ceased, accon Debt 100l strld.
                    Summons to Sheriffe St maries County to answere &c:

                  Hugh Stanley dds writt agst Capt Samuel Tilghman.
                    Summons to Capt Tilghman to answene ye Bill of Complt of ye
                    sd Stanley in Chancery this Court.

                  These are to impower James Langworth of St Maries Gentn or
                 any other person whom ye Longworth shall appoynt to marke an
                 Oake, in ye roome of ye Ash, wch was mistaken for an Oake, being
                 the Bownd Tree there to Land, surueyed for John Jarbo Gentn.
                 Prouided ye Oake bee not aboue Twenty paces from ye Ash all-
                 ready marked.
        Octobr ye 6th Aflo Dm 1659               Josias ffendall

           George & Know all men by these prnts yt Wee George Beckwith of Patuxt
         Beckwithac- Riuer in ye Prouince of Maryland Plantr doth wth ye consent of
         knowledged ffrancis his Wife, for a ualuable consideraön of Toh as by Rill
         Resuruey will apeare. Doe bargaine, sell & make sale of one Certaine Neck
         this Land in of Land, lying & being in our Mannor of St Josephs, on ye Sowth
          open Court      t
       Wm Bretton. side of Patux Riuer. Commonly called & Knowne by name of
                 Backbeer neck. I say doe fully & absolutely make sale of this aforsd
                 Neck of Land unto James Mulliken of ye same Prouince Plantr to
                 him his heyres, Executors, Admistrators, or Assignes for euer. To
                 haue & to hold wth all appurtinances thereunto belonging. Being
                 bounded on ye East wth patuxt Riuer. On ye West wth a back Crecke.
                 On the other side wth marked Trees, running out into ye woods:
                 ending a small Beech. On ye other side beginning att a greate
                 Swamp att a White Oake, & slanting ouer to another White Oake:
                 soe running out marked Trees till it end att a Gume for an
                 Outlett. With Warranty from us Our heyres Executors Adthis
                 trators or Assignes agst all persons that may or shall claime any
                 Right thereunto, by from or under us, or other wayes clayming
                 tytle thereunto. Sauing only to bee holden of us & our heyres as of
                 Our Mannor of St Josephs only for paying ye quantity of One
                 Bushell of Corne, or else Tob to ye ualew. In wittnes whereof Wee
                 doe here intchangeably sett Our hands this first of August 1659.
                 Test . . .                    George Beckwith

             p.336 These ptnts wittnes yt I Willtm Bretton of Little Brittaine in ye
                 Prouince of Maryland gentn for & in consideraön of a marriage to
                 bee ptformed & celebrated betweene Mrs Temperance Jay on ye one
                 part & my selfe on ye other. Haue assigned & made ouer, & doe
                 hereby assigne & make ouer unto Cuthbert ffenwick of St Maries in
                 Maryland gentn & Thomas Mathewes of ye same place Chyrurgeon