Alexander Mountney, Mountney's Neck, 1663: Baltimore County Land
Records (Patents) Liber 5, folio 376 [Maryland State Archives].
William Poultney, Long Island Point, 1671: Baltimore County Land
Records (Patents) Liber 16, folio 223 [Maryland State Archives].
John Copus, Copus Harbour, 1684: Baltimore County Land Records
(Patents) Liber IB & IL No. C, folio 62 [Maryland State Archives].

10. Scharf, History, vol. 1, pp. 48-50. Thomas Cole, Cole's
Harbour, 1668: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 12,
folio 134 [Maryland State Archives].

11. Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 9-10, 16, 60-64; M'Henry,
Ejectment Law of Maryland, p. 30; Mayer, Ground Rents, pp. 33-35;
Scharf, Chronicles, vol. 1, p. 10; Scharf, History , p. 49. Compare
David Jones, Jones his Range, 1678: Baltimore County Land Records
(Patents) Liber 20, folio 8 [Maryland State Archives] with Thomas
Cole, Cole's Harbour, 1668: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents)
Liber 12, folio 134 [Maryland State Archives].

12.  Edward Lunn, Lunns Lott, 1673: Baltimore County Land Records
(Patents)  Liber 17,  folio 189  [Maryland State Archives]. John
Howard, Timberneck, 1668: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents)
Liber 11, folio 32 [Maryland State Archives].

13.  Scharf, History, vol. 1, p. 50.  David Poole, Upton Court,

1668: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 14, folio 121

[Maryland State Archives].  David Williams, David's Fancy, 1672:

Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 19, folios 380, 550

[Maryland State Archives]. Charles Gorsuch, Whetstone Point, 1661:

Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 5, folio 41 [Maryland

State Archives].

14. Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 24-27; M'Henry, Ejectment
Law of Maryland, 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 [Maryland State
Archives].

15. M'Henry, Ejectment Law of Maryland, pp. 33-34; J. 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 Whetstone Point. J. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, pp.
173-186; Gould, Land System of Maryland, pp. 28-30; Scharf,

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