180       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  In wittnes whereof the partyes above named have Interchangably sett
                  to their hands & Scales the day & yeare above menconed
                  Sealed Signed & deld        Wm Hatton (Signed)
                  in prseflce of us Wm Boarman Saml Cressey
              Vnderneath the aforegoing Deed was written Vizt
                    Memorandum that on the five & Twentieth day of May in the first
                  yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dni 1676 came before us
                  whose names are hereunder written two of his Lopps Justices of
                  the Provinciall Court the above named Wm Hatton & Acknowledged
                  the above written Indenture to be his Act & Deed To the use & uses
                  therein menconed           Philip Calvert
                                             Thomas Tailler

                    To all Christian People to whom this prsent writing shall come
                  Isabell Haxby of Beedale in the County of Yorke Widdow Laurence
                  Parker of Tunstall in the same County Yeoman & Anne my wife,
                  Margarett Perine of the same Widdow, John Poulson of Catticke in
                  the said County Yeoman & Elizabeth my wife, Wm Greyson of
                  Seamore in the said County Yeoman & Jane my wife send Greeting
                  in our Lord God Everlasting Know ye That we the said Isabell,
                  Anne, Margarett, Elizabeth & Jane are the Surviving Sisters &
                  Coheires of Richard Watson our late & deare Brother of the Prov-
                  ince of Maryland in Charles County Decd for a Valuable Con-
                  sideracon to us in hand paid by Thomas Dent of St Maryes County
                  in the aforesaid Province Merchant before the Ensealing & delivery
                  hereof, the receipt whereof we doe hereby Acknowledge & thereof &
                  every part thereof doe cleerly Exonerate & discharge him the said
                  Thomas Dent his Execrs & Admistrs by these prsents And for divers
                  other good causes & Valuable Consideracons us thereunto moving
                  Have Given Granted Bargained Sold and Aliened & by these prsents
                  doe Give Grant Bargaine Sell & Aliene unto the said Thomas Dent
                  his heyres & Assignes for ever All & every such parcell & parcells
                  tract or tracts of lands of or belonging unto our said late deare
                  Brother Richard Watson which to him in in any part of the said
                  Province did any manner of wayes appertaine or belong att the tyme
                  of his death by what name or names quantityes of acres or other
                  certainties the same be or is knowne called or reputed to be the Estate
                  Inheritance or Interest of our said late Brother att the tyme of his
                  death Together with all houses Edifices buildings and Orchard
                  Erected standing or being & whereof he dyed Seized & possessed &
                  which by & after his death did lawfully descend & come & of Right
                  ought & doe descend & come unto us the said Isabell, Anne, Marga-
                  rett, Elizabeth & Jane Sisters & Co heyres of the said Richard Watson
                  Decd, To have & to hold the said lands & prmisses to him the said
              p. 114  Thomas Dent his Heyres & Assignes for ever To the only proper
                  use & behoofe of the said Thomas Dent his heyres & Assignes for