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Provincial Court Land Records, 1770-1774
Volume 726, Page 592   View pdf image
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       To all to whom these Presents shall come I John Erasmas Blackett Esquire Mayor
       of the Town of Newcastle upon Pyne in the County of the same Town in the Kingdom of
       Great Britain Do hereby certify that on the Day of the Date hereof the abovenamed William
       Cuthbert and John Barber personally came and appeared before me  And they being Persons
       well known and worthy of Good Credit did by solemn Oath which they then took upon the
       Holy Evangelists of Almighty God before me solemnly depose to be true the several Matters
       contained and mentioned in the abovewritten Affidavit  And I do hereby further
       certify That at the same Time personally came and appeared before me the said Mayor
       Robinson Wakefield and Ann his Wife the Persons named in the       Letter of Attorney
       hereunto annexed and did severally acknowledge that they duly executed the same
       before the said William Cuthbert and John Barber the subscribing Witnesses thereto  In
       Testimony whereof I the said John Erasmus Blackett have hereunto set my Hand and
       caused the Seal of the Mayoralty of the said Town of Newcastle upon Tyne to be hereunto
       affixed this twenty second Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven
       hundred and seventy three
                                                 John Blackett Mayor                                 (LS)


       Know all Men by these Presents that we Robinson Wakefield of North Shields
       in the County of Northumberland in Great Britain Gentleman and Ann Wakefield
       Wife of the said Robinson Wakefield late Ann Fell Spinster only CHild and Heir at Law
       of Edward Fell formerly of Baltimore Town in the Province of Maryland in America
       Merchant deceased  Have and each of us Hath made ordained constituted authorized and
       appointed  And by these Presents do and each of us Doth make ordain constitute authorize
       and appoint John Backhouse of Philidelphia in America Merchant and William Backhouse
       of New york in America Merchant and either of them our true and lawfull
       Attornies and Attorney jointly and severally for us and in our Names or in the Name
       of me the said Robinson Wakefield by all Lawfull Ways and Means whatsoever to
       enter upon and to demand and take Possession of all that Plantation Tract and Parcell
       of Land and Ground situate lying and being in the Province of Maryland in America called
       and known by the Name of Coles Harbour containing five hundred and twenty Acres or
       thereabouts  And of all the Messuages or Tenements Shops Warehouses Quays and
       Hereditaments whatsoever erected and built thereupon or belonging thereto late the
       Estate and Inheritance of the said Edward Fell  And if the Possession thereof shall then
       be refused and withheld one or more Suit or Suits at Law or in Equity for us and in our
       Names or in the Name of me the said Robinson Wakefield to institute for the Recover
       in such Manner as they or either of them shall think fit and proper and to proceed
                                                                                                             (Judgment)


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