220        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

    Liber W. C. thousand one hundrcd thirty Eight pounds of Tobacco for his Costs
                and Charges by him about his defence in this behalfe Layd out and
                 Expended And the said Henry may have thereof Execution

                 Roger Eades James Peterkin late of Dorchestr County Plantr
                    agt was attached to answere unto Roger Eades of a
               James Peterkin plea wherefore by force and Armes one messuage
                            of six hundred and fifty Acres of Land in the
                 County aforesaid And lately in the tenure & Occupation of Henry
                 Osborne decd & wch Anthony Dawson and Rebeckah his wife One
                 of ye Daughters & Coeheires of the said Henry Osborne deceased &
                 Thomas Walker & Sarah his wife the other daughter and Coeheire
                 of the said Henry Osborne deceased unto the said Roger Eades
                 Demised for a Terme Not yet past Entered And him from his
                 farme aforesaid Did Eject And other Enormityes to him did doe
                 to the great damage of him the said Roger and Contrary to the
                 peace of the Lord Propry
                   And Whereupon the said Roger Eades by Robert Ridgely his
          p. 574 Attorney Complayneth That whereas the said Anthony Dawson
                 and Rebeckah his wife & Thomas Walker & Sarah his wife the first
                 day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1680 at Dorchester County
                 aforesaid had demised to the said Roger the said Messuage wth
                 the appurtenances Called Alexanders Place scituate lyeing and being
                 in Transquakeing River on the East side of Chesepeake bay on the
                 westermost side of the northwest branch of the said River, Begin
                 ing at a marked Pokiccory tree standing by the water side & runing
                 up the aforesaid branch north and by west One hundred ninety and
                 five Perches to a Swampe called Wrights being the bounds of a
                 parcell of land for the Said Wright, bounded on the west from the
                 aforesaid line by a line drawne west and by South into the woods
                 for length five hundred thirty and foure perches, bounded on the
                 south by a line drawne from the aforesaid line south & by east One
                 hundred Ninety five perches, bounded on the East by a line drawne
                 from the End of the former lyne East and by north the Length of
                 five hundred thirty and four prches till it intersect a paralel drawne
                 from the first marked tree, bounded on the north with the said River
                 Containing by estimacon six hundred and fifty Acres or thereabouts
                 & lately in the Tenure and Occupation of the said Henry Osborne
                 deceased To have & to hold unto the said Roger Eades his Assignes
                 from the tenth day of Aprill now last past to the End and terme
                 of three yeares from thence next Ensueing & fully to be Compleate
                 and ended By vertue of wch Demise the said Roger Eades into
                 ye Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances entered and was
                 thereof posessed. & soe thereof being posessed the said James Peter
                 kin Afterwards to wit the same tenth day of Aprill in the yeare
                 aforesaid into the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances wch