Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694. 481

Assignee of Iohn Coleman had granted unto him by Letters
Patents under the great Seal of this Province bearing date the
Seventeenth day of October Anno Dom 1688 a tract of Land
called Colemans Adventure then formerly surveyed and laid
out for the said Iohn Coleman the Twenty fifth day of Ianuary
Anno Dom 1666 lying in Sommerset County aforesaid on the

Liber K.

Northermost side of Pocomoke River in a Creek called the
dividing Creek on the Westermost Side of the said Creek
said to begin for Breadth at a Marked red Oak seperating it
from the Land of Iohn Manloe and from thence running up
the said Creeke one hundred & fifty Perches to a Marked
Cypress standing near the Creek side and running from the
said Cypress for length up into the Woods South West five
hundred thirty four Perches bounded on the South by a Line
drawn South East from the end of the Former Line for breadth
one hundred and Fifty Perches bounded on the East by a
Line drawn South East from the end of the former Line for
the length of Five hundred thirty four Perches till it intersect
a parallel from the first Bounded Tree dividing it from the
Land of Iohn Manloe aforesaid Containing and then Laid out
for five hundred acres more or less that in the s^d Survey or
in the return of the Certificate thereof into the Office some
great Error or mistake hath been committed in the last Line
Said to run South East from the end of the Former Line w^ch
is also South East till it intersect a Parallel from the first
bounded tree which if it runn ad infinitum will never be and
Consequently Your Petitioner have no Land at all but only
three Bare Lines whereas the Last mentioned Line to have
Come to the Parrallel mentioned should have run North East
and your Petitioner then have had his due conplem^t That
one William Morris taking advantage of the said Error hath
since taken up & Surveyed in his own Name most of your
Petitioners inteneed Land contrary to the Conditions off Plan-
tation of this Province then in force which will not permit any
common warrant to affect Land already taken up as was
indeed your Petitioners said Land altho mistaken in the return
thereof as aforesaid your Petitioner nevertheless in full and
quiet Possession thereof is now Lately by Virtue of an order
of Councill obtain'd by the s^d Morris to be reinvested with
his Estate unjustly taken away and divested from him by the
Instigation and directions of the said Morris to the said
Sheriff divested and thrown out of his Plantations and forced

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to betake himself to another place to his great Damage and
Ruin if not Releived by your Honours in order whereunto he
humbly proposes and prays the order of this Hon^ble Board for
a Special warrant of Resurvey your Petitioners said Land
according to the true antient intended and designed Meetes

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