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697 Be it remembered that on the eleventh Day of July 1774 came before us the Subscribers two of the Justices of the Peace for Ann Arundel County the within James Williams & Elizabeth his Wife and the said James Williams did acknowledge the within Instrument to be his Act & Deed & the within bargained & leased premisses to be the Right & Estate of the within James Tilghman for the Uses & purposes & according to the true Intent and Meaning of the within Deed and the said Elizabeth Williams being by me examined apart from and out of the hearing of her said Husband did acknowledge & declare the within Instrument to be her Act & Deed & the within bargained & leased Premisses to be the Right & Estate of the within named James Tilghman for the Uses and purposes and according to the true Intent and Meaning of the within Deed and that she did sign seal & deliver the same and made this her Acknowledgment 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 Tho.s Brooke Hodgkin 7 Sides W.m Steuart Recorded 25.th July 1774 x.d (N.o 2) This Indenture made this twelfth Day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy four Between James Williams of the City of Annapolis in Ann Arundel County Merchant & Elizabeth his Wife of the one Part and James Tilghman of the same Place Gentleman of the other Part Whereas the Fee Simple and Inheritance of and in an undivided half Part or Moiety of all that one Acre of Land scituate lying and being in the City of Annapolis aforesaid bounded as follows that is to say Beginning at a Locust Post on the North East Side of Scotts Street and running thence North West six perches and three Qua^r^ters of a perch to a Locust Post lately erected thence North forty one Degrees and one Quarter East twenty two perches to Severn River lying down till it intersect a North forty two and a half Degrees East Course from Scott's Street the Place of Beginning and which said Acre of Ground is that Lott or Portion of Ground in the said City which James Reith deceased resided on at the Time of his Decease is now at the Execution of these Presents lodged and vested in the aforesaid Elizabeth Williams party hereto And whereas the same James Williams and Elizabeth his Wife Parties hereto are willing and desirous to settle and dispose of the aforesaid undivided half Part or Moiety of the Acre or Lott or Portion of Ground aforesaid together with the Houses Buildings Improvements Liberties Priviledges & Advantages whatsoever to the same Belonging or appertaining with its Rights Members and Appurtenances to the aforesaid James Tilghman his Heirs and (Assigns) |
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