Land: Indenture Between Jno Sewele and Wife and James Robinson (1686); Cecil 
County, MD

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book The Semmes and Allied Families, Baltimore, 1918.

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                        BRETTON, September 9, 1659

  Laid out for Wm. Bretton of this Province, Gent, a parcel of land lying
on ye east side of Chesapeake Bay and on ye north side of a river in ye
said Bay called Elk River, until it intersects a line drawn from Plumb
Point Creek, 500 acres, more or less.
   This Indenture, made this Thirty of April, in ye Eleaventh yeare of ye
Dominion of ye Right Honorable Charles, Absolute Lord and Prop'ry of ye
province of Maryland, &c., Anno Dndi, between Jno. Sewele, of Calvert
County, in the province of Maryland, Gent, and Ann, his wife, of the one
part, and James Robinson, of Cecil County, planter, of the other pte.
  Witnesseth, that whereas Wm. Thompson, of Charles County, Md., Gent, son
and heir of Mary, sole daughter and heir of Wm. Bretton, late of St. Mary's
County, and Victoria, wife of ye said Wm. Thompson, of ye one part, and
Jno. Sewele of the other, did by their Deed of Fooffrnend, bearing date the
18th day of May, 1685, in consideration of 5,500 lbs. tobacco, paid by said
Jno. Sewele to the said Wm. Thompson and Victoria, his wife, conveyed and
make over to ye said Jno. Sewele all that parcel of land lying on ye east
side of Chesapeake Bay and on north side of Elk River, until it intersects
a line drawn from Plumb Point Creek, 500 acres, more or less, in Cecil
County.
  Now This Indenture wittnesseth that ye said Jno Sewele and Ann, his wife,
for and in consideration of 10,000 Ibs. tobacco, paid by James Robinson,
have granted said land to said Robinson.

                      ( Signed) JNO. SAWELL and

                       ANN SAWELL ( X) her mark.

Witnesses: Jno. Woodward, Jno. Read, Owen Hughs.

  Acknowledged on April the Last, 1686, by Jno. Sewall and Ann, his wife.
May ye 29th, 1686, entered upon Record, Lib. C, fol. 190. Enrolled, October
16, 1705.