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Provincial Court Land Records, 1749-1756
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       Oak Tree being the Beginning Tree of Peter Middlecalfs Land Running thence North Eighty
       five Degrees West One Hundred and thirty Perches then South five Degrees West One
       Hundred and fifty four Perches then South Eighty five Degrees East One Hundred and
       thirty Perches then by a direct Line to the Beginning Containing One Hundred and twenty
       five Acres together with all and Singular the Improvements and Advantages to the said
       Tract of Land belonging or any ways appertaining to the only proper use and Behoofe of him
       the said Andrew Shriver his Heirs and Assigns and to no other use intent or purpose
       whatsoever To have and to hold the afs.d Tract of Land with all and singular the Premisses
       unto him the said Andrew Shriver (the Rents due to the Lord Proprietor Excepted) his Heirs
       and Assigns for Ever And the said John Digges doth for himself his Heirs Ex.rs and
       Administrators Covenant Promise Grant and Agree to and with the said Andrew Shriver
       his Heirs and Assigns the afs.d Tract of Land and Premisses against him the said John
       Digges and all manner of Persons Lawfully Claiming or to Claim from by or under
       him for Ever hereafter to Warrant and Defend and at any time hereafter at the request
       but ^the^ Cost and Charge of the said Andrew Shriver his Heirs and Assigns to Sign Seal
       deliver and Execute or cause to be Signed Sealed delivered and Executed any other Deed or
       Instrument in Writing or do any other Lawfull Act as the said Andrew Shriver his Heirs or
       Assigns his or their Council Learned in the Law shall Reasonably Devise or advise for the
       further and better Assurance Surety or suremaking the Land and Premisses hereby Bargained
       and Sold unto him the said Andrew Shriver his Heirs and Assigns for Ever In Witness whereof
       the Parties to these Presents have Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the day &
       Year first above written                                                            John Digges   Seal
          in the Presence of us            On the Back of the aforegoing Deed was thus Endorsed
          Geo Buchanan                              Viz.t
          Sam.l Owings                      Novem.r 15.th 1749   Reced then of Andrew Shriver the Consideration
       Money within mentioned being twenty five Pounds in Gold P me
       Witt                                                                                          John Digges
             Sam.l Owings

       Memdum Nov.r 15 1749 The within Deed was acknowledged by the within named
       John Digges in due form as the Law requires before Us two of his Lordships Justices of
       Baltimore County                                                         Geo Buchanan
       Nov.r ^the^ 17.th 1749                                                   Sam.l Owings
                                           Received of Andrew Shriver five Shillings Sterling for his Lordships
       use (it being the Alienation fine on the within mentioned One Hundred and twenty five
       Acres of Land) By Virtue of a Commission from Benjamin Tasker Esq.r his said Lordships
6     Agent and Receiver General                                                   Rich.d Dorsey
       Recorded December the 8.th 1749

Ex.d This Indenture made the fifteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord God One
       Thousand seven Hundred forty and Nine Between John Digges of Conewango in Baltimore
       County Gent.n of the one Part and Peter Shults of the County and place afs.d Blacksmith
       of the other Part Witnesseth that the said John Digges for and in Consideration of the
       Sum of One Hundred and fifty Pounds Current Money to him the said John in hand paid
       Hath Given Granted Bargained and Sold as by these Presents he the said John Digges
       doth for himself his Heirs Give Grant Bargain and Sell Alein Enfeoffe Confirm and
       make Over unto the said Peter Shults his Heirs and Assigns for Ever All that
       Tract or Parcel of Land herein after described that is to say being part of a Tract of
       Land called Digges Choice Beginning at a Spanish Oak Tree standing on the
       West side of a Run descending into Codorvas Running thence South Eighty
       seven Degrees West Eighty Perches thence South Nineteen Degrees West forty
                                                                                                                      (Perches)


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