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Rudolph Drach of Rockhill Township, Bucks County, PA agreement with sons Henry Drach and Adam Drach, Bucks County, PA, Deed Book No. 18, p. 274.

AGREEMENT made January 5, 1770 between Rudolph Drach of Rockhill Township, County of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, of the one part, and his sons Henry Drach and Adam Drach of the same place, of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Rudolph Drach grants unto his said sons the tract of 300 acres of land in Bedminster Township, the said County, which he, the said Rudolph, had purchased of the Right Honorable the Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania by their patent bearing date the 4th day of June 1763. To the said Henry 100 acres and to Adam 200 acres thereof.

Henry shall give yearly and every year from the date hereof on the 27th of November to his said father at his house where he now lives 8 bushels, the half of wheat and the half of rye, in the whole 8 bushels; and shall plow and harrow in one half acre with Buckwheat each year and find the seed, thresh and clean the same and deliver same at the same time when he delivers the wheat and rye in Rockhill Township, Bucks County.

And Adam Drach shall likewise give each and every year to his father Rudolph Drach and mother Merilas [i.e. Maria Elizabeth] Drach as long as they or either of them live, 20 bushels the one half wheat and one half rye, and shall sew one half acre of Buckwheat in like manner as Henry, and deliver the same together with one hogset of good cider. And said Henry and Adam shall pay 40 pounds each to my five daughters Elizabeth, Madalenck, Margaret, Ann Margaret, and Ann Mary, and the said Henry to pay unto my daughter Susannah Drack 5 pounds. Ten acres are excepted from Rudolph's 200 acres during the lifetime of the said Rudolph [I don't understand this last sentence.]

Witnessed by Johann Philip Schryer and Peter Drach [who were also Rudolph's executors]

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