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   for the Divideing and laying out their severall & respec- Lib. C. B.

   tive Counties into severall Districts & Parishes And the

   said Justices at their soe Meeting & Assembling as afore

   said to the full effecting & accomplishing all & every thing of

   them by the said Act required should by the Clerk of the said

   County Enter vpon Record their Proceedings therevpon, and

   the same soe vpon Record Entered as aforesd cause to be Cer

   tifyed by the said Clerk Under his hand & Seale of such

   County wherein such Proceedings shall or ought to be Certi

   fyed as aforesaid.

    Wee therefore their Mats Justices for the County of Dor

   chester doe hereby humbly Certifye that Wee Henry Trippe,

   Jacob Lockerman, Henry Hooper, Thomas Ennalls, John

   Mackeele & William Mishew, their Mats Justices for the

   County of Dorchester as aforesd together with the Honoble

   Charles Hutchins Esqe & severall other the chiefe & principall

   ffreeholders of the said County did on the first day of ffebruary

   Annoq Domini 1692 last past Meet together for divideing the p. 85

   said County into severall Districts & Parishes pursueant to the

   said Act and that Wee the said Justices & ffreeholders as

   aforesaid by a Mutuall & Unanimous consent did Agree &

   consent Unto that the said County of Dorchestr should be

   Divided into two severall Districts and Parishes by a Divi

   sionale Line drawne from the Mouth of Little Choptanck River

   binding therewith to the head of the said River from thence

   with a streight Line drawne to the head of the North branch

   of Black Water River to a plantation now in the Tenure or

   occupation of Benjamin Hunt of this County thence runing

   downe the said River on its severall Courses to the Mouth of

   the same, the Eastermost of which Parishes is named and

   called by the Name of Great Choptanck Parish, the other

   Parish is called & knowne by the Name of Dorchester Parish,

   and that the ffreeholders of the Parish of Great Choptanck

   doe Give their Meeting & Attendance at the Towne of Cam.

   bridge within the said Parish, on the first Saturday in March

   next to Choose Vestrymen for the said Parish of Great Chop.

   tanck. And that the ffreeholders of Dorchester Parish doe

   likewise Meet & give their Attendance at the Towne of Dor

   chester, on the second Saturday in the said Month of March p. 86

   in Order to the Chooseing Vestrymen for the said Parish of

   Dorchester as by the said Act is required, All which proceed.

   ings by the said Justices and ffreeholders as aforesaid for the

   said County of Dorchester was by the said Justices Ordered

   to be Entered Upon Record which is accordingly done, and

   the which I doe here humbly Certifye vnder my hand &

   County Seale this tenth day of June, Annoq Domini 1693.

    Sigill              Hu: Eccleston Clk Corn Dor.