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55) Higdon Parties to the within Deed before me the Subscriber one of his Lordships Justices of the Provincial Court and acknowledged the within instrument to be their Acts and Deeds & the Land and Premisses therein mentioned to be the Right of Anthony Simms his Heirs & Assignes for Ever & at the same time Came Mary the Wife of Marmaduke Sims Verlinda the Wife of Elexius Simms & Elizabeth the Wife of Fidelimus Simms who being by me privately Examined out of the hearing of their said Husbands declared that they did freely acknowledge their Right of Dower to the within mentioned Lands unto him the said Anthony Simms And that they did the Same willingly & freely without being induced thereto by fear or threats of or ill usage by their said Husbands or fear of their Displeasure Taken & acknowledged before & Certifyed by Geo Dent Rec.d the Sum of Sixteen Shillings Sterling for his Lordships use being the Alienation fyne for the Land within mentioned Benj.a Tasker 10 1/2 Recorded Aug.t 22.d 1738 x.d This Indenture made the Seventh Day of August Seventeen hundred & thirty Eight Between Anthony Simms of Saint Marys County in the Province of Maryland in America Carpenter & Planter of the one Part & Georges Forbes of the same Co.ty Merch.t of the other Part Witnesseth that the said Anthony for & in Consideration of Fifty pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain & five thousand Pounds of Tobacco to him in hand paid The Receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge & therefrom Exonerate acquit & discharge the said George Forbes his Heirs Exec.rs & Adm.rs by these Presents Hath given granted aliened bargained sold Enfeoffed conveyed and Confirmed and by these Presents the said Anthony for himself his Heirs Ex.rs & Adm.rs doth give grant bargain sell enfeoffe Convey & Confirm unto the said George Forbes his Heirs & Assignes for Ever All that Tract or Parcell of Land lying in Cecil County in the Province of Maryland af.d on the East Side of River Called Elk River Which Tract of Land was Originally to wit in the year of (our) |
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