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553) The within Land and Premisses Phi Dorsey Witness Alexander Warfield Eliz.th Ridgley May ^the^ 2.d 1755 Received of M.r James Brooke four Shillings and Nine pence Sterling for his Lordships use (it being the Alienation Fine on the within mentioned One hundred and Eighteen Acres of Land) by Virtue of a Commission from Edward Lloyd Esq his ^said^ Lordships Agent and Receiver General Rich.d Dorsey 7 1/2 Recorded May 2.d 1755 Ex.d This Indenture made the sixteenth Day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty five Between John Tennison of S.t Marys County in the Province of Maryland Planter and Susannah his Wife of the one part and John Attaway ^Clarke^ of the Same County and Province af.d Gentleman of the other Witnesseth that the said John Tennison and Susannah his Wife for And in Consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings Current Money to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged Have Granted Bargained and Sold and by these presents Do Grant Bargain and sell unto the said John Attaway Clark his Executors Administrators & Assigns the Several Moieties parts or parcells of Land following that is to say one Moiety of a Tract of Land called the out lett Containing fifty Acres More or less also one other Moiety of a Tract or parcell of Land called Red Mans Adventure containing fifty acres more or less which said Moieties or Parcells of Land are Scituate lying and being in S.t Marys County af.d Near the Head of Poplar Hill Creek and were formerly sold or Conveyed by Andrew Delaware and Ann his Wife to a Certain Sam.l Johnson and Also all that tract or Parcell of Land called Mulberry Fields lying in the Same County contained in the following Metes and Bounds Beginning at a Bounded Chesnutt Standing on the South Side of the Land whereupon Samuel Johnson formerly lived and Running South to a Poplar in the line of Robert Mosleys Land |
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