Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.II





        February 2d 1652 —                    LiberA
     I Robert Clarke Gentleman and Surveyor Generall of this province
   do hereby attest that in the 1640 I did survey and lay out unto
   William Brantwell Gent and Thomas Broadnox planter two thousand
   acres of Land upon the Northermost part of the I'le of Kent
   commonly called Love point in the Year 1650 The said Thomas
   Broadnox to Invite Inhabitants to seatt the said Island did lay down
   his right of 1400 Acres of Land now posses't of other Tennants
   that he might have his Right in some other place the truth hereof
   is known to divers of the Inhabitants as well as to my Self
                              Robt Clarke Survr Genll
                              Phillip Conner
                              John Russell
        This 7th of June 1652 —             [101.65]
   12th of Febtyl
     1652 Know all Men by these presents I Zephania Smith
   do bind over my Plantation with all the Land which belong to it
   on Kent which was formerly Mr Phillpotts to be security to sattisfy
   a Debt of fifteen hundred Pounds of Tobacco which I the said
   Zephaniah and Will: Chandler stood by bill bound for to pay to
   Mr Brown on Kent which was in sattisfaction for a servant which I
   the said Smith stood bound to perform as by Condition appears
   In witness to which I have sett to my hand this Day and Year
   abovesaid                       Zephania Smith
   Testes Edwd Copedg
        Will:     Chandler the mark X

        February 2d 1652 —
     These presents testefie that I Hannah Lee do by these presents
   make choice of George Crouch my true and Law full Attorney for
   me and in Name and to my use to hire Lett and dispose of my
   Plantation as he shall think fitt and what he shall do in the Premisses
   I promise to be Content therewithall and do by these present ratifie
   and Confirm Witness my hand for the performance hereof this 28th
   Day July 1651             the mark of
   Teste Walter Smith      Hannah H H Lee

     Know all Men by these presents that I Thomas Broadnox of the
   I'le of Kent Gent have bargained and sold to Giles Blake a Certain
   plantation upon the said Island commonly called and known by the
   Name of little Neck bounded to the Southward with a Creek and
   Swamp runing up into the Woods betwixt the said Plantation and
   Mr Phitt Connyers Land, bounded to the Westward with Chesapeak
   bay bounded to the Northward with a small run of water or Little
   brook betwixt the said plantation and the Land that the said Mr
   Broadnox now lives upon And to the Eastward runing up into the