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426) present a resident of the City of Annapolis in the State of Maryland of the one part and Robert Hanson Harrison of Durham Parish in the County and State aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of Four hundred pounds Current Money of the said State to the said John Hoskins Stone in hand paid by the said Robert Hanson Harrison before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged He the said John Hoskins Stone hath granted Bargained sold aliened released and confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain sell alien release and confirm unto the said Robert Hanson Harrison his Heirs and assigns for ever in Fee simple All that part of a Tract of Land called Watsons purchase which he the said John Hoskins Stone bought of a certain John Stewart Chilton on the twenty fifth day of July in this present year containing Sixty Two acres or more or Less as by the Indenture of Bargain & Sale for the same bearing date the same day and duly acknowledged and recorded among the ^Land^ records of Charles County aforesaid relation being thereunto had will more fully appear which said part of the said Tract of Land hereby granted or intended to be granted & sold lies in Durham parish aforesaid and Begins at a Large Stone on the Bank of Potowmack river on the point below Nanjemey Warehouses (the said Stone being the Eastermost boundary on the said River of Robert Hanson Harrison's Land and Likewise the second boundary of the whole original Tract of Land called Watsons purchase) and runs thence from the said Stone down the said River and with the meanders thereof to another bound Stone dividing the said Hereby granted part of the said Tract of Land called Watson's purchase from the residue thereof which course reduced to a streight line is about twenty three perches long thence from the said last mentioned Stone with and by a streight course as the Nanjemoy Warehouse road runs to the run or branch forming the he^a^d of the little creek which empties or falls into Nanjemoy creek not far within its Mouth and on the west side thereof the said course having been found to be about W 15° N and Two hundred and seventy two perches in its extent thence Westerly up and with the said run or branch to the North West line or a Tract of Land belonging to the said Robert Hanson Harrison called Cowspring thence South East with the said North West line of the said Tract of Land called Cowspring reversed till it comes to the second or West line of the said Tract of Land called Watsons purchase where it interferes with the said North West line of the said Tract ^of Land^ called Cowspring thence East with the said West line of the said Tract of Land called Watsons purchase reversed to the beginning or first bound Stone herein mentioned (the same and the next preceeding line being the lines that divide the said Tract of Land called Watson's purchas and the Lands of the said Robert Hanson Harrison And moreoever the said part of the said Tract of Land hereby Granted is the same that was formery sold for fifty acres More or Less by a certain John Sheerman to a certain Nicholas Cooper about the year 1693 by or from whom it was devised or descended to John Cooper his Son who devised it or from whom it descended to William Cooper his Son the Father of a certain John Cooper his Son & Heir at Law who sold it to the aforesaid (John) |
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