KNOW YE, That for and in consideration that Thomas Hearne, Senior, of Sommersett County in our said Province of Maryland, hath due unto him fifty Acres of Land within our said Province, By Virtue of a Warrant for that Quantity Granted him the fourteenth day of September, Seventeen hundred and fifty-nine, as Appears in our Land-Office, and upon such Conditions and Terms as are expressed in our Conditions of Plantation of our said Province, bearing Date the fifth day of April, Sixteen hundred and eighty-four, and remaining upon Record in our said Province; Together with such Alterations as in them are made by our further Conditions bearing Date the fourth Day of December, Sixteen hundred and ninety-six; Together also with the Alterations made by our Instructions bearing Date at London, the twelfth Day of September, Seventeen hundred and twelve, and registered in our Secretary’s Office of our said Province, Together with a Paragraph of our Instructions bearing Date at London, the fifteenth Day of December. Seventeen hundred and thirty-eight, and registered in our Land-Office. WE DO therefore hereby grant unto him the said Thomas Hcarne, Senr. all that Tract or Parcill of Land Called St. Kitts, Scituate, Lying, and being in Somerset County, on the East Side of Chesipike Bay, and Bounded as followeth: Beginning at a Marked Red Oak standing on the North side of the head of Wiccomoco River, back in the woods and on the Westermore side of the said Hearne’s Plantation, thence with a Line drawn South thirty-five degrees West Eighty Perches, thence North fifty-five degrees West one Hundred Perches, thence North thirty-five degeers East Eighty Perches, thence with a Line drawn to the Beginning, Containing and laid out for fifty Acres of Land, More or Less, according to the Certificate of Survey thereof, taken and returned into our Land-Office bearing Date the Eleventh Day of December, Seventeen hundred and fifty-nine, and there remaining together with all Rights, Profits, Benefits and Privileges, thereunto belonging, Royal Mines excepted, To HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto him the said Thomas Hearne, Senr., his Heirs and Assigns, for ever, to be holden of Us and our Heirs, as of our Manor of Somerset, in free and common Soccage, by Fealty only for all Manner of Services, YIELDING AND PAYING therefore yearly, unto Us, and our Heirs,

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