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Pancaya ManOr containing Ten Thousand Two Hundred
and forty Acres in Charles County, Beaverdam ManOr con-
taining seven Thousand six Hundred Acres, Mill ManOr con-
taining one Thousand nine Hundred and twenty-four Acres,
Woolsey ManOr containing Two Thousand eight Hundred
and six Acres in Saints Mary's County, and Bridgewater
Manor containing five thousand nine hundred and sixty Acres
in Somerset County in Maryland: all which said ManOrs are
of uncultivated Lands returned unto me as aforesaid, the total
amount of the above cited ManOrs by computation of Acres
estimated and entered on the aforesaid Plans or Charts, con-
tain Twenty-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty Acres
of Land — Note.
I observe, the above Surveys of the said ManOrs and Lands
are very inaccurate, being in general only Out Lines Run and
Charted, and are only Blanks of Void Spaces without specify-
ing any contents, such as particular Spaces, Woods, Spring-
heads of Rivers, or Water Courses passing through such
Lands or relative to such Water Courses if Navigable or of
what use to convey Traffick and Produce of the said ManOrs
Lands to or from our Great Bay of Chesopeak, the Inlet into
the Atlantick Ocean. The said Surveys so returned as well
relative to the Soil and Properties of such Lands are very
defficient as to all contents, no ways informing my Judgement
to set a Value on the said ManOr Lands: such returns are
useless by way of Sale in England to Purchasers, and for
which Premises, I have at this present an Opportunity by Sale;
for as British America has of late years by numbers of Per-
sons from hence been much traversed, Persons in England of
Valuable Circumstances Apply, and are very desirous to
become Purchasers and Sellers in our American Colonies,
Especially in Maryland being unexceptionable both as to
Climate and Soil.
And of and concerning the aforesaid Manors and Lands by
My Patent and Grant, they the said ManOr Lands at present
yielding me nothing, laying as uncultivated Waste Lands, and
prevents the increase of People, Especially, Persons of Valu-
able Circumstances, and the general Welfare and Being of
My Province. I am therefore come to the following Resolu-
tions and Determinations of and concerning the Disposal, by
Sale of the said Manor Lands, and I do hereby Authorize and
impower my aforesaid Judges of my Land Office or any other
of the said Office that I may at any time approve or appoint,
unless, I shall at any time signify to the contrary, And my will
is, and my said Judges of my Land Office are hereby be me
impowered immediately to Publish and to proceed on the
Receipt of these my Instructions to Treat, Bargain, and to sell
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