540 NEALE v. HAGTHROP-—3 BLAND.

"This indenture, made the seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, between
Anthony Hook, of Baltimore County, in the State of Maryland,
brickmaker, of the one part, and John Hook, son of the said
Anthony, of the county and State aforesaid, of the other part.
Whereas, the said Anthony Hook is justly and bona fide indebted
to John Moale, Esquire, of Baltimore City in the county aforesaid,
for arrears of rent; to Colonel Robinson and George Gray, of Anne
Arundel County; Abel Cheney, of Anne Arundel County; John
Kirwan, of Snowhill, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; Milburn,
of Snowhill; Littleton Furnis, of Snowhill; John Rean, of Snow-
hill aforesaid; also to Sarah Smith, widow, of Baltimore County;
Joshua Amos, of Baltimore County aforesaid; Joshua Hendrick-
sou; Yaleatine Sneider; William Hodge; and Margaret Croxall,
of Baltimore County, in several sums of money; and whereas the
said John Hook, his son, hath agreed to pay the several creditors
of his said fater Anthony, their several and respective debts.
Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that the said Anthony
Hook, as well in consideration of the above recited premises, as
also for and in consideration of the natural love and affection he
hath and beareth towards his said son John Hook; and the further
consideration of the sum of five shillings, current money of Mary- j
land, to him in hand paid by the said John Hook, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, he the said Anthony Hook hath
given, granted, bargained and sold, assigned, transferred and set !
over; and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain and sell,
assign, transfer and set over unto him, the said John Hook, his
executors, administrators and assigns, all those ten acres of land,
being part of a tract of land called David's Fancy, lying in Balti-
more County; beginning, for the said ten acres, at a post set up at
or near *unto the branch called, in the certificate for said
553 land, Howard's Branch, and running thence north eighty-
three degrees, thirty minutes east to a post set up on the west side
of the main road leading from Baltimore Town to the ferry point
of Patapsco, and thence running with and bounding on the west
side of the road aforesaid thirty-four perches; thence south eighty-
three degrees, thirty minutes west to Howard's Branch, thence
running with and bounding on said branch to the place of begin-
ning; containing within its metes and bounds ten acres of land,
being the same which was leased by a certain Richard Moale to
the said Anthony Hook, by indenture bearing date on or about
the fifth day of January in the year of oar Lord one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-five, for the term of ninety-nine years
renewable forever, subject to the rent and covenants in said lease
reserved and contained; also all that lot or parcel of ground, be-
ing part of the lots mentioned in the original lease from William
Fell to John Hall, situate on Fell's Point, Baltimore Town and