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Provincial Court Land Records, 1765-1770
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       his Heirs and Assigns for ever and to or for no other Use Intent or purpose whatsoever  In
       Witness whereof the Parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their
       Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written
       Sealed and Delivered                                                                     Charls Mannes      (seal)
       in the presence of                                                                                    her
       J Hepburn  W.m Thornton                                                               Eliz.a + Manns      (seal)
                                                                                                                         mark
                                                                                                                      her
                                                                                                                Ann + Meade   (seal)
                                                                                                                         mark

       On the Back of which Deed was thus Endorsed to wit/
                                                                                          Received on the Day and Year
       first within written of and from the within Named John Gresham the sum of seventy two Pounds
       sterling being the Consideration Money within mentioned to be by him paid us
                                                                                                               her
       Wittness  J Hepburn                                    Charles Mannes      Ann + Meade
                                                                                                                mark

       On the sixth Day of Sept.r in the Year of our Lord seventeen hundred and sixty eight
       came before me the Subscriber one of his Lordships Justices of the Provincial Court the
       within named Charles Manns and Elizabeth his Wife and Anne Meade and did severally
       acknowledge the within Instrument of Writing to be their respective Act and Deed to and for
       the Uses Intents and purposes therein specified and the Lands and premisses therein mentioned
       and every part and parcel thereof to be the right and Estate of the said John Gresham his
       Heirs and Assigns forever according to the True Intent and meaning of the said And I do
       hereby certify that immediately before taking the above Acknowledgment I Examined the
       said Elizabeth Manns privately and out of the hearing of her said Husband and she
       then declared that she made her acknowledgment of the within Deed willingly and freely
       and without being induced thereto by fear or threats of or ill usage by her said Husband or
       fear of his Displeasure            taken before & certified by                     J Hepburn
       Recorded the 27.th Day of October 1768


Examd
             This Indenture made the fifth Day of November in the Year of our Lord seventeen
       hundred and sixty eight Between Alexander Lawson of Baltimore County Gentleman
       of the one part and James Russell, Walter Ewer, John Ewer, and John Buchanan all
       of London in Great Britain Merchants of the other part Whereas by certain Articles of
       Agreement bearing Date on or about the 10.th September 1745 and made or mentioned to
       be made between the said James Russell of the first part a certain Alexander Lawson
       the Father of the above mentioned Alexander Lawson of the fourth part among other things
       it was agreed that the said parties shou'd enter into a Copartnership or Company and at their
       Joint Charge shou'd purchase Lands contiguous to a Branch of Gunpowder River called
       Birds River and there build and erect one good and sufficient Furnace with all other
       Buildings necessary as by the said Articles may more fully appear  And Whereas in
       pursuance of and under the said Articles the said parties did build and erect one
       Furnace called and known by the Name of the Nottingham Furnace with all necessary
       Buildings to the same and did also purchase many and considerable Tracts and parcels     
       of Land to and for the use of the said Furnace  And Whereas the said Parties to
       the said Articles or the Parties to these presents or some of them have purchased sundry
                                                                                                                            (Lands)


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