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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1691-1692
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To him the said Joseph: Grey and his Heirs as by him or his heirs or their Councel in the
Law learned, shall be reasonably devised or advised & required, be it by fine fee fine at
recovery release Confirmacon or by acknowledgmt. and Enrollment of these presents or
Otherwise In Wittness whereof the parties a foresaid to these Indentures have interchaingeably
put their hands and Seals the day and year above written.
Sealed Signed and delivered Henry: Smith. sealed
in the presence of us . / Anne. Smith. Sealed
John Webb
Thomas: Tull.
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Memorandum. that this day (to witt) the 14th: day of August Anno Dominy 1688. Came
the abovesd Henry: Smith and Anne his wife, and acknowledged the foregoing Indenture
according to a Certain Act of Assembly made for Enrollment of all Conveyances.
Fine of Alienation recd pr me Coram Nobis Thomas: Newbold
Stephen : Luffe . Sheriffe Edmund: Howard
Entered on Record the 2d day of December Ano. Dom. 1690
pr me John: West Dept. Clk Cur Comit Somerset - - - -}
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This Indenture made the twentieth day of March in the third yeare of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord James the 2d. by the Grace of God. King of England &c. And in the XIII. yeare of the Dom of the
Right Honble. Charles, over Maryland &c. Annoq Domini 1687/8. Between William:Hearne and Katherine
his wife of Somerset County & Province of Maryland, Planter, of the One part, and George Russel of the sd County
and Province of the other part Wittnesseth. that whereas the Right Honoble.Lord Proprietory by his deed of
grant under the great Seal of the said Province bearing date at St. Maries the first day of June in the tenth
year of his dominion 1685, did grant unto the sd Wm: Hearne, a certain tract or percell of Land Called
Yarmouth scituate lying and being on the Seaboard side back in the woods from the water, at a Ridge of
Land between the sea side and Pocomoke River, begining at a marked white Oak being a Corner tree of A
percel of Land called the Key, thence with a line drawn North east and by East Sixty two pearches to amar
a marked white Oak being another Corner tree of the aforesaid land called the Key, thence with a line drawne south
and by East two hundred fourty five pearches to a marked forked Red Oak standing on the East side of a marked
Road, thence with a line drawn west two hundred thirty three pearches, And from thence with a line drawne
to the first bounder, conteining two hundred acreas more or less, togeather with all the right profits, benifitts
and priveledges thereunto belonging Royall mines excepted. to have and to hold the same, unto him the said
William: Hearne his Heirs and Assigns forever under such Rents, covenants. Services & provisoes as in
the said grant is mentioned and expressed, recourse being thereunto had, it doth more fully a more at large
appear, Now know ye that I the said William: Hearne, and Katherine my wife, for divers good causes and
Considerations us hereunto moving, but more espetially and perticuliarly for and in Consideration of six
thousand five hundred pounds tob to us in hand paid by George Russell afored, the receit whereof we
doe by these presents acknowlege and that thereby we are fully satisfied contented and paid & the(reof)
and of every part & percel thereof, we the said Wm: Hearne and Katherine do hereby acquit, exonerate
and discharge, the said George Russell his Heirs and Assigns for ever, have given granted bargained and
Sold enfeoffed and confirmed, And by these presents, do give grant, bargain alien, Sell

 
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