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114 assureance from Hawley in his life tyme for the said four hundred of Land and the land being as the said Marÿ told him as aforesaid setled as aforesaid the Defend.t Conceived the said Nicholas could not make the Def.t a good title to the said four hundred Acres of Land And therefore urged the said Nicholas severall tymes to Repay the said Three Thousand pounds of Tobacco but the said Nicholas assured this Defend.t that he had a good title to the said land and could Lawfully Convey the same to him and make him a good title of Inheritance Thereupon the Defend.t being Ignorant in the Lawe applyed himselfe to the Honn.rble Phillip Calvert Esq then Secretarÿ of this Province and to severall other Eminent and learned persons for advice in the premisses who all assured the Defend.t that he said Guythers Right was good to the said Land but the Secretarÿ advised him that unlesse his Lordps Rent were paid the said Land would be forfeited & the said Guyther Solicited the Def.t to paÿ the said Two Thousand pounds of Tobacco remainder of the purchase moneÿ to enable him to paÿ the Rent aforesaid w.ch the Def.t refuseing untill an assembly satt the Defend.t thinking that would be the best way to secure his Land to have itt made over in a generall Assembly and thereupon the said Nicholas att a Generall assembly held for this Province by indenture duely Executed in the Lower house of assembly and attested by William Evans & Luke Gardner members of the said house and W.m Britton Clarke of the said house the Sixth day of Aprill Anno Domi one thousand six hundred sixty & one between the said Nich.o Guyther and the Defend.t w.ch wittnessed that the Said Nicholas in Consideration of five Thousand pounds of Tobacco had sold aliened and Bargained the said four hundred Acres of Land w.th the Appurtenances to the said Def.t & his heyres for ever under the Rent of one Bushell of Indian Corne and other rents and Covenants in the same Indenture Contayned And further the Said Nicholas did in the same indenture declare that whereas he was Lawfully possessed of the Estate that did formerly belong to Will.m Hawley deceased as by a Lawfull order of the Provinciall Court bearing date the four and twentieth day of March one Thousand six hundred fifty and two might appeare had sold the said Land to provide a Sufficiency wherewithall to pay what arrearages of Rent were behind that the (Whole) |
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