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92 This Indenture made this seventh day of November In the Tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne Queen of Great Brittain &c.a Annoq Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven Between Charles Beckwith of S.t Marys County Shipwright of the one part and Amos Garrett of the City of Annapolis in the Province of Maryland Merchant of the other part Wittnesseth that the said Charles Beckwith for and in Concideration of Thirty seven pounds Eighteen Shillings and six pence sterl to him in hand paid by the said Amos the receipt whereof the said Charles Beckwith doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth fully discharge the said Amos his heirs Ex.rs and Adm.rs Hath bargained unto him the said Amos Garrett all those two severall percells of Land being part of a Certain Tract of Land Containing about five thousand seven hundred Acres called Lying near Chesipeak Bay and at or Near S.t Jerums and Originally taken up by Cap.t W.m Hawley and Lying in S.t Marys County one of the parts aforesaid being that percell of Land whereon the said Charles Beckwith now liveth and Containeth Two hundred Acres or thereabouts the other part being a percell of the said Great Tract heretofore purchased by W.m Guither from Thomas Williams and by the said Guither made over to the said Beckwith known by the Name of hogg Neck Containing likewise two hundred Acres more or less with all and singular the appurtenances to the same or to any of them belonging as also three Negro Slaves Jack aged about Twenty Eight years Issabell aged about twelve years and Katherine aged about one year and also sixteen head Cattle viz.t of Cows heiffers steers and a bull none under a year old being all the said Charles Beckwiths Cattle on the plantation Called Markt a Crop the right ear and a Swallow forke The Left and also Twenty seven old sheep and Ten Lambs Memorandum pte of y.e above said was formerly Conveyd and made over ^un^to the Charles Carroll and Amos Garrett for about one hundred pounds sterl advanced the s.d Charles Beckwith being markt as afd & if any of the s.d Live Creatures shoud Dye or be Left before Drove of the s.d Plantation by y.e s.d Amos Garretts order he y.e s.d Charles Beckwith hereby obliges himself heirs ex.rs or adm.rs to make other (over) |
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