To all _____ to whom those _____shall come greeting in our Lord God
Everlasting.  Know yee that for and in consideration that Robert DRURY
of St. Maries County in our said Province of Maryland hath due unto
him one hundred Acres of Land within our said Province being due to
the said DRURY by a Warrant for the same quantity granted him the 19th
day of September 1683 as appears upon Record and upon such conditions
__formes as are expressed in the Conditions of Plantation of our Lord
father Cecilius __ of noble memory according to his Declaration
bearing date 22nd day of September 1658, with such alterations as in
____ made by his instruction to us bearing date the 28th day of July
1669, and the 21 day March the next following all ____ and remaining
upon Record in our said Province of Maryland.  We do hereby grant unto
him the said Robert DRURY,,,,,,,, all that tract or ___ of land called
Dry Dockings Addition lyeing in St. Maries County and Begining at a
bounded B?___ standing by a fresh run ___running thence south for
seven? paces? to a bounded white oak of Thomas EVANS land ___ing on
the said land south seventy one paces(paces?) to a bounded
Pichiccory thence west fifty four paces to a bounded white oak in a
swamp then northeast by north ninety-three paces to a bounded white
wood thence north northeast twenty-five paces to a bounded red oak
standing in the east line of his owne land called Dry Dockin binding
upon the said land east ninety-two paces to a bounded oak then north
eighty six paces to a bounded oak of the said Drye Dockin then east
ninety-nine paces,  to a bounded oak then south one hundred and twelve
paces untill it intersects a line drawne east from the first bound
tree containing and now laid out for 100 acres of land more or less
according to the certificate of survey  ___ taken and returned into
the Land Office at the City of St. Maries bearing date of 20ieth day
of October 1683 and ___ remaining upon Record together with all rights
profitts, benefitts and privileges thereunto belonging- Royall mines
excepted, to have and to hold the same unto him the said Robert DRURY
his heirs and assignes forever.  To be holden of us and our heirs as
of our Mannor of ____ in free and common soccage? by ___ only for all
mannor of services yielding and paying thereford yearly unto us and
our heirs at our Royal __ at our St. Maries at the two most ___ feasts
in the year, viz. the feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and St. Michael the Archangle by whom equal portions of rent of
four shillings sterling in silver or gold for a fine upon every
alienation of the said land or any part or parcel thereof one whole
years rent in silver or gold or the full value thereof in such
comodities as we and our heirs or such officer or officers as shall be
appointed by us and our heirs from time to time to collect  ____the
same shall accept in Discharge and thereat the choice of us and our
heirs or such officer or officers as aforesaid Provided that if the
said sume for a fyne for alionacion shall not be paid unto us and our
heirs or such officer or officers as aforesaid before such alienation
of the said alionaton entered upon Record within the Provincial Court
or in the County Court whose the said ____ of land lyeth with one
month next after such alienacon  and the said alienason shall be void
__ of none effort given at our said city of St. Maries under the great
seale of our said Province of Maryland this 10th day of August in the
ninth year of Our Lord __Domini  One thousand six hundred eighty-four.
Witnessed our trusty and well beloved ____ Henry DARNALLS ____,
William DIGGES, Comissaries Gentle of our Said Province of Maryland.

 [This document is from a copy of the original on 15 Dec.1981, in Hall
of Records, with the # 824378,  p.(?) 4?84]


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