Submitted by:  Angela M. Ruley reddog@rockbridge.net

Photocopy of: Liber A, Folio 201, Montgomery County, Maryland.

        At the request of William Dennis th[e] following Deed was Recorded
November 19[th] 177[0] to wit,  This Indenture made this seventeenth Day
of October in the year of our Lord seventeen [H]undred and seventy eight
between Charles Coats of Montgomery County in the Province and State of
Maryland plater of the one part and William Dennis of this said County
and Province planter of the other part  Witnesseth that the said Charles
Coats for an in the consideration of sixty five pounds Current Money by
the said William Dennis unto the said Charles Coats in hand paid before
the ensealing and delivery of these presents hath given granted
bargained sold [aliened] [o]n foo[t] set over and confirmed and by these
presents doth give grant bargain sell alien on foo[?] [s]et over and
confir[m] unto the said William Dennis his heirs Executors
Administrators and Assigns a [part] of a Tract or parcel of Land called
Daniels Discovery lying and being in Montgomery County but formerly
called Frederick County beginning at this end of forty one perches in
the fourth line of the aforesaid Tract of Land called Daniels Discovery
and running thence South seven perches then South fifty five Degrees
East sixty four perches then South twenty three and a half Degree[s]
West thirty perches then North seventy five Degrees West sixty five
perches and then with a straight Line to the beginning containing and
now laid out for Thirteen Acres of Land be the same more or less
together with all and singular the [e]difice[s] improvements benefits
and Advantages whatsoever [to] [this] same belonging or in any wise
appertaining to have and to hold this Land and premises aforesaid and
every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their
Appurtenances unto the said William Dennis his heirs  Executors Adm
[r.s] and Assigns forever and to no other [use] intent or purpose[s]
whatso[-]ver and the said Charles Coats for himself and his heirs
Ex.[rs] Adm.[rs] and Ass.[ns] doth covenant promise and ag[rees] to and
with the said William Denni[s] his heirs  Ex.[rs] Adm.[rs] and Ass.[ns]
that the said Charles Coats his Ex.[rs] Adm.[rs] shall and will at the
reasonable request cost and charges in the Law for him the said William
Dennis his heirs or Ass.[ns] make do legally execute all and every such
further lawful and reasonable A[ssur]ence and conveyance or other
Instrument of writing for  the further securing and conveying the hereby
granted land and premises unto him the said William Dennis his heirs
Ex.[rs] Adm.[rs] or Ass.[ns] or by the said William Dennis or his or
their Council [be]aring in the Law shall be reasonably advised
[d]evi[sed] or[r]equi[re] and finally the said Charles Coats for himself
his heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs [&] Ass.[ns] forever hereafter against all manner
of person or person[‘]s claims or demands whatsoever dot[h] warrant and
forever defend  In Testimony hereof the parties abovesaid to these
presents have interchangeably have set their hands and affixed their
Seals this Day and Year above written,
                                                Charles Coats (seal)
Signed Sealed & Delivered in Presence of
[And.] Campbell  Elisha Williams
On the Back of which Deed was this [emcoivce] to wit, Received of the
within named, William Dennis the within Sum of Sixty five pounds Current
Money it being the consideration within [abpreju]ed this 17 October
177[0]  Charles Coats
Witness present [An.]d Campbell  Elisha Williams
On the seventeenth Day of October came before us the Subscribers two of
the Justices for Montgomery County and Province of Maryland the within
named Charles Coats who did acknowledge the within Instrument of writing
to be his Act and Deed and [the] Land and premises therein mentioned to
be the right of the within named William Dennis his heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs
and Ass.ns forever according to the true meaning and Act of Assembly in
that[t] Case made and provided-  Acknowledged before
                        [And.] Campbell
                        Elisha Williams”