| Charles the Second Peter & Nicholas Massey Whereas the Records to All Persons etc Know Ye that for Patent for 200 acres, and in consideration that Peter Massey and Nicholas Massey of Kent County have due unto therm two hundred acres of land within our Province being due to them by Virtue of a Warrant for that quantity granted to the said Peter and Nicholas the sixteenth day of September 1717 as appears in our Land Office and upon such conditions and terms as are expressed in our conditions of plantations of our said Province bearing date the fifth day of April 1684 and remaining upon Record in our said Province together with such alteration as in them are made by our further condition bearing date of of the 4th day of December 1696 and Registered in our Land Office of our said province. We doe therefore hereby Grant unto them the said Peter and Nicholas Massey all that Tract or Parcell of Land Lying in Kent County called Massey's Venture on the North side Chester River and on the NorthWest side of a Branch called the Sypras Branch Beginning at a branded White Oak standing near the aforesaid branch and on the West side of a small branch flowing out of said Sypras Branch itt being the Uppermost bounded Tree of a parcel of land called Well Meaning and Returning from the said Oak North 65 Degs. West Two Hundred ... per. Thence NorthEast One Hundred and twenty-four per.[i.e., perches - GL,III, ed.] thence South 65 Degs. East 112 per. thence with a straight line to the first bounded tree. Containing and now laid out for 200 acres of Land more or less According to the Certificate of Survey thereof taken and retained into our Land Office Bearing date the seventh day of March 1717 and Remaining together with all Rights, Profits, Benefits and Privileges thereto belonging P... Executed to Have and to Hold the same unto them the said Peter and Nicholas their heirs and assignees forever to be holo... of us and one of your ... by Baltimore in free and c ... s... by l... olny for all manner of Services Willing and Paying therefore yearly into our Heirs att one pound att the City of Saints Maria at the two more r... of P... in the year/.../ the year Consecration of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michail the Archangel by even and equal portion the P... of Eight shillings tax in silver or gold and for a fine upon every validation of the said land, or by ... or ... thereof one whole year, paid in silver or gold or the full value thereof in Rice consideration and ... ... items at said Officer as shall be appointed by us and our heirs from time to time to Reserve the same shall annex and discharge thereof all the Force of us and our heirs or ... Officer or Officersw as ... Provides that if the said time for a tme for A... s... not be paid to us and our heirs or some Officer or Officers a... a... can ... [illegible from here on to the end, GL,III, ed.] |
