Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682. 221

     the said Anthony Dawson and Rebeckah his wife & Thomas Walker           Liber W. C.
     & Sarah his wife to the said Roger in forme aforesaid Did demise
     for the Terme aforesaid wch is not yet past did enter and him from
     his farme aforesaid did Eject & other Enormityes to him did doe
     to the greate Damage of him the said Roger & against the peace &c.
     Whereupon he sayth he is the worse and hath Damage to the vallue
     of tenn pounds sterling And thereupon he bringeth his Suite
      Unless the Tennant in Posession or they undr whome he claymes
     doe the next Provinciall Court appeare to this Declaracon and make
     him or themselves defts thereunto and by rule of Court confesse
     the lease entry and Ejectment and insist onely upon the title The
     deft in this Declaracon will confesse Judgment and posession will
     be delivered accordingly to the plt, To James Peterkin Tennant in
     Possession of the Premisses above mentioned
      And the said James Peterkin by Christopher Rousby his Attor
     ney cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and Prayeth
     liberty to Imparle hereunto untill the next provincial Court and it
     is granted unto him the same Day is given to the plt also:
      Att wch said next Provinciall Court came the said Partyes by
     their Attorneys aforesaid And the said James Peterkin by his sayd
     Attorney sayth: that as to the force and wrong he is not guilty
     And as to the residue of the Trespasse & Ejectment he saith that
     they the said pits their Accon for the same Ought not to have be
     cause he sayth That the Rtt honoble the Lord Propry that now is by
     his Lopps Pattent under the greate seale of this Province bearing
     date the first day of May in the first yeare of his Lopps Dominion
     in the yeare of Our Lord 1676: Did for the Consideracons therein
     expressed Grant unto John Rawlings All that parcell of land Called
     plaine dealeing Lyeing on the East side of Chesepeake bay in Trans
     quakeing River on the north side thereof in the County of Dorchester
     Begining at a marked Poplar standing by the River side & Runing
     thcncc North west into the wuods three hundred and Twenty perches        p. 575
     to a marked Read Oake being the first bound tree of the Land called
     Partnershipp, from thence Runing North East One hundred perches
     to a marked white oake from thence Runing south east Three hun
     dred and twenty perches to the said River side ifrom thence Runing
     downe the River bounded therewith untill it Intersect with the first
     mentioned marked Poplar Containing and Layd out for Two hun
     dred Acres more or Lesse To have and to hold the same unto him
     the said John Rawlings his heires and Assignes forever Wch said
     John Rawlings by vertue of the Pattent aforesaid became seized in
     his Demeasne as of ffee of and in the aforesaid Two hundred Acres
     of land with the appurtenances And being thereof Soe Seized did
     for a Vallueable Consideracon make over & Convey in due Course
     of Law unto the said James Peterkin & his heires for ever All the
     aforesaid Two hundred Acres of Land called Plaine dealeing with