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This indenture made this thirtieth day November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen between John Rule of Halifax in the Province of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia Gentleman of the one part and Aaron Williams and Richard McCarter of Melville Island Province aforesaid Blackmen of the other part Witnefseth [sp?] that the said John Rule for and in consideration of the Rents, Covenants, and agreements herein after reserved and contained and which by and on the part and behalf of the said Aaron Williams and Richard McCarter are to be paid, kept, done, and performed [illegible] the said John Rule hath demised, leased, set and to farm [illegible] and by these presents doth demise, lease, set and to farm let unto the said Aaron Williams and Richard McCarter a certain lot tract piece [sp?] or parcel of land situate lying and being on Beaver Bank in the County of Hants [sp?] abutted and bounded as follows beginning at the boundary line on the South side of Beaver Bank Brook so called thence running South thirty degrees East seventeen chains thence South sixty degrees West twenty three chains thence North thirty degrees West Forty chains or until it meets the aforeseed Brook thence the course of the Brook to the place of beginning containing Sixty acres more or less [?] to be equally divided between the said Aaron Williams and Richard McCarter in thirty acre lots agreeable to the plan hereunto annexed reference being thereunto had will more fully appear together with all and singular the buildings, ways, waters, water courses, easments