Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678/9. 141

James Ives & ux agt Tho Spinke Admr Jane Paine

This action in Ejectmt abates, the plaintiffes being dead

Liber N N

Hugh Sherwood agt Henry Wilcox and Cha: Hollingsworth Trustees for Mary & Judith Howden

John Hunt late of Talbott County planter was Attached to Answer unto Hugh Sherwood of the same planter of a plea wherefore with force & arms into all that parcell of land lying in Talbot County called Macklin brough on the East side of Chessepiake bay & on the East side of a river called Chester river, beginning

att a marked Pussimon & runing North East & by North two hun- dred twenty one perches to a certaine branch, & from thence to the second Bound tree being an Oak standing by the river side North two hundred forty six perches, from thence with a line drawn East South East three hundred & twenty perches, from thence with a line drawne South & East foure hundred perches extending over the Creek called Island Creek to a certaine bounded red Oak standing neer the side of the said Creek, & from thence with a line drawne West North West three hundred & twenty perches to the first bounded tree standing att the mouth of a Creek called Herring Creek Containing Eight hundred acres more or lesse, which one John Power of the same County had demised to him the said Hugh Sherwood for a terme which is not yett past, he the said John Hunt did enter & him from his ffarme aforesaid did Eject, & other harmes to him did to the great damage of the said Hugh & against his Lord- shipps peace &c And whereupon the said Hugh Sherwood by Robert Carvile his Attorney saith, that whereas the said John Power upon the twenty seventh day of March in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy Eight, the said John Power in Talbot County aforesaid did Demise to him the said Hugh Sherwood the said parcell of land called Macklin borough lying in Talbot County on the East side of Chessepiake bay & on the East side of a river called Chester river & butted & bounded as aforesaid To have & to hold the same to him the said Hugh Sherwood & his assignes from the said Twenty seventh day of March aforesaid for & dureing & unto the full end & terme of three yeares from thence next ensueing & fully to be compleat & ended By vertue of which Demise the said Hugh into the lands and prmisses aforesaid entred & became possessed thereof And being so thereof possessed afterwards to witt the first day of April in the said yeare One thousand six hundred Seventy eight the said John Hunt into the same prmisses which the said John Power to him the said Hugh in manner & forme aforesaid had demised for the terme aforesaid which is not yet past entred, & him

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