Underneath again the former is this assignment, viz.
" I Walter Bayne do assign over all my whole right and
title of this within mentioned hundred acres of land, unto
Richard Wattson. Witness my hand this 6th October 1653.
The mark of
Witness WALTER Ù
BAYNE."
John IT Taylor.
LIBER Q. fol. 348.
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The following case exhibits the most usual form of
assignment of patents, sometimes strengthened by
acknowledgement in court, but often not so.
" On the back side of a pattent for a parcell of land called
Wookstock, lying in the middle branch of Wye river, on the
eastermost side of the branch granted unto John Wright of
the county of Kent, gent. for nine hundred acres, the
ninth day of January anno, MDCLXVI. was thus written.
John Wright asst. ) Know all men by these presents, that I
of patt. to William ) John Wright of the county of Kent, doe
Shirt, 900 acres. ) assigne over all my right, title and
interest of the land within specified unto William Shirt, his
heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, to have and to
hold quietly, to possess and enjoy from me, my heirs,
executors, administrators or assigns, for ever, or any person or
persons whatsoever having any title, clame or interest under
me thereunto, being sold by me the said John Wright,
before the solemnization of matrimony. In witness whereof
I have hereunto sett my hand, the nineteenth of March, one
thousand six hundred sixty-six.
JOHN WRIGHT , seale."
"Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of us,
Phillip Stevenson, Thomas Vaughan, clk. acknowledged in court,
and ordered to be recorded.
" Test, THOMAS VAUGHAN, Clk."
LIBER No. 11, fol. 347.
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The following case like the preceeding one of Poesey,
shews several assignments of a patent, and illustrates some
other principles.
John Bayley by his petition, sets forth that he has a
legal right to three hundred acres of land, called Nunsoake,
bought and paid for by his father, who was afterwards killed
in the proprietary's service ¾that being under age, he is
incapable of obtaining possession thereof, and therefore prays
that his lordship would confirm to him the said land, &c."
Underneath the petition are the following entries.
" On the back side of a pattent granted to John Nun, for
three hundred acres of land, bearing date the 11th day of
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