Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694. 475

It was by the Iustices and Freeholders of the said County
for the aforesaid end and purpose met at New town the day
and Year abovesaid then & there agreed upon that S^t Maries
County aforesaid be divided into two Parishes and that the
same be Divided between New town hundred and Clements
hundred by M^r Langworths branch which leads to Pottuxen
main road and the said Branch divides the said Hundreds
and Parishes the Lower whereof being called by the Name of
William and Mary Parish and the upper by the Name of King
and Queen Parish
Certified from of the Records of S^t Marys County Court this
2^d day of March in the 5^th Year of their Majestys Reign Anno
Dom 1692
p me Henry Denton Cl

Liber K.

To the Honble the Governor and Councill
The humble Petition of Mordecai Moore
humbly sheweth
That your Petitioners wife in her Widowhood obtain'd a
warrant from the late Governor and Councill under the Lord
Baltemore and hath paid for the same to his receiver, but as
yet never made use of the same.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly craveth order that the
same may be renewed and directed to the Surveyor of Ann
Arundell County &c^a

Ordered that warrant for two hundred Acres of Land
granted to Madam Ursula Burges the fifth day of Aprill Anno
Dom 1688 for which she gave caution according to Conditions
of Plantation then in force &c^a be renewed for and in the
Name of the Pet^r Doctor Mordecai Moore who hath since
married the said Ursula

To his Excellency the Gov^r & the honble the Council
The humble Petition of Iohn Lidyat of Calvert
County
humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner having lately purchased and so become
lawfully seized in a certain tract or Parcell of Land called S^t
Iosephs mannor lying in Calvert County but the meetes and
bounds thereof being therefore very uncertain Your Petitioner
therefore humbly Supplicates this honble Board to grant him
warrant of Resurvey of the same to be made in the presence
of the Sheriff of the said County and the directions of a Iury
of the Neighbourhood therein best known to be by the said
Sheriff Summoned Impanelled and sworn and that the Sheriff

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