464 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE Charles Gorsuch, Whetstone Point, 1661: Baltimore County Land Records (Pa- tents) Liber 5, folio 41, MSA. 14. Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 24-27; M'Henry, Ejectment Law of Mary- land, p. 40. The description in the patent to Mountney's Neck, for example, began as follows: "Beginning at a marked red oak, by a little branch, and running up the north-west branch west-north-west one hundred perches, over above to a white oak standing on a point...." See Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 436 (Md. 1844) or Alexander Mountney, Mountney's Neck, 1663: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 5, folio 376, MSA. 15. M'Henry, Ejectment Law of Maryland, pp. 33-34; Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, p. 85; Gould, Land System of Maryland, p. 27. 16. See Helms v. Howard, 2 H. & McH. 57 (Md. 1784); Howard v. Moale, 2 H. & J. 249 (Md. 1801); Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430 (Md. 1844). 17. Such a reversion apparently occurred when Charles Gorsuch vacated Whet- stone Point. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 173-86; Gould, Land System of Mary- land, pp. 28-30; Scharf, Chronicles, vol. 1, pp. 9-10. See Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bland 299, 305-19 (Md. 1827) for a discussion of the operation of the land system in the proprietary period. 18. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 173-86; Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 29-30; Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bland 299, 305-7 (Md. 1827). 19. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 160-64. 20. Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 436-38 (Md. 1844); Gould, Land System in Maryland, p. 30. James Todd, Todd's Range, 1700: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 41 folio 2, MSA. Recall Alexander Mountney, Mountney's Neck from note 9; John Oulton, Bold Venter, 1695: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 37 folio 443, MSA. 21. Howard v. Helms, 2 H. & McH. 57,59, 78 (Md. 1784). Scharf records in some detail a prior 1696 patent called "Ely O'Carroll," which subdivided Cole's Harbour into two five-hundred-acre parcels, and transferred them to Daniel and Charles Carroll, the sons of Charles Carroll, the Settler. This account seems garbled in almost all respects. It involves twice the amount of land originally surveyed in Cole's Harbour, and the putative grantees were not to be born until 1702 and 1707 respectively. Moreover, there is no mention of a patent to Ely O'Carroll in the eighteenth-century litigation concerning title to the Carroll lands in Baltimore. For the time being it remains an unfollowed false scent. See Scharf, Chronicles, 1:14-15, Scharf, History, 1:49. 22. Robert Blunt to James Todd, "Mowtines Land," Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber TR no. RA, folio 339, MSA; Samuel and Ann Wheeler to David Jones, Mountney's Neck, Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber RM no. HS, folio 180, MSA; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 435, 452, 489-94 (Md. 1844). 23. One perch equals 16.5 feet. A metes and bounds description of the patents is found in Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 436438, 441, 445, 457, 472 (Md. 1844). Parceling Out Land 465 24. Wilson's Lessee v. Inloes, 6 Gill 121, 144-45 (Md. 1847) contains a copy of the 1707 survey prepared by Richard Colegate in response to Oulton's warrant. 25. Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 435, 438 (Md. 1844); see also Harrison v. Sterett, 4 H. & McH. 540, 541-42 (Md. 1774); Helms v. Howard, 2 H & McH. 57, 59-60(Md. 1784). 26. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 160-63; Brugger, Maryland, pp. 55-56; Sally D. Mason, "Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Family, 1688-1832," in "Anywhere So Long As There Be Freedom": Charles Carroll of Carrollton, His Family, & His Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975), pp. 11-15. 27. Helms v. Howard, 2 H. & McH. 57, 61 (Md. 1784); Scharf, Chronicles, 1:16, 19-20. 28. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 128-33; Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 17-20. 29. Mason, "Charles Carroll of Carrollton and his Family, 1688-1832," pp. 16-18. Charles of Annapolis held a tenancy in common in the Baltimore lands with his younger brother Daniel, but held exclusive managerial power until his brother reached majority in 1728. Daniel died young in 1734, and Charles thereafter was entrusted with management of all of Daniel's estate for the benefit of Daniel's heirs. In 1754 Charles was required to reimburse one of these heirs the extraordinary amount of nine hundred pounds for breach of fiduciary responsibilities. 30. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:18. 31. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:18; Wilson v. Inloes, 6 Gill 121,134-35 (Md. 1847); Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 173-77. 32. Wilson v. Inloes, 6 Gill 121, 135, 159 (Md. 1847). 33. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:18. The procedures for obtaining an escheat warrant and entering a caveat are set forth in Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bland 299, 311-13 and 315-20 (Md. 1827). 34. Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. & J. 195, 196 (Md. 1821); Scharf, History, 1:48; Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 29-30; Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 172-77. 35. Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. &: J. 195 , 196 (Md. 1821);Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp. 149-50; Helms v. Howard, 2 H. & McH. 57, 59-60, 78 (Md. 1784). 36. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:18; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 476 (Md. 1844). 37. 1729 Md. Acts (July) ch. XII [W. Kilty, vol. 1], Archives of Maryland 36:464. The Acts of the Assembly were first compiled by William Kilty in 1799, under the authority of the General Assembly. The Archives of Maryland, reprinted by the Maryland Historical Society, were originally printed by the Lord Baltimore Press in Baltimore, Maryland in 1916, and are the only compilation of Acts of the Assembly passed prior to 1692, and are a more easily accessed source for Acts of the Assembly through 1766. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:18-21; Scharf, History, 1-.51-52; Clayton Colman Hall, ed., Baltimore: Its History and Its People, (3 vols.; Baltimore, 1912), 1:12-15. 38. 1683 Md. Laws, "An act for the Advancement of trade." Archives of Maryland 7:609. There were two bills regarding the issues of erecting towns (the Bill for Towns) and the advancement of trade (the Bill for the Advancement of Trade). The legislative history of the act passed, found in the Archives of Maryland, suggests that