Mountney received a patent in 1663 to the two hundred-acre
Mountney's Neck which straddled a stream from the northeast which
came to be called Harford Run. South and east of that, Long
Island Point, a one hundred-acre tract which hooked west into the
basin, was first patented to William Poultney in 1671. One
hundred acres on the east side of that peninsula were granted in
1683 to John Copus as Copus Harbour.9

The most expansive grant was the result of a 1668 resurvey
of five hundred fifty acres for Thomas Cole. It was cut in half
by the Jones Falls, and included Jones' Range. Called Cole's
Harbour, it was bounded to the south by about one-half mile of
Patapsco waterfront. Cole apparently put the parcel together by
acquiring on the private market the warrants for six headright
allotments of fifty acres each (originally claimed for transport-
ing settlers) and adding to it an estimated two hundred- odd
acres of Jones' Range.10

Cole may have thought Jones's tract up for grabs because
David Jones had not obtained a warrant on the land he had been
occupying since 1661. Under the procedures adopted by the Lord
Proprietor, a warrant ordering a survey of the appropriate number
of acres was the preliminary step in obtaining a patent. Only
after a certificate of survey was returned would the proprietor's
agent issue a patent. From the first, speculators such as Jones
would take up surveyed land, but stop short of obtaining a
patent, thereby avoiding payment of the annual quit-rent of four
shillings per hundred acres. To protect their seniority they