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And whereas, in Pursuance of the said Act, the major Part of
the said Commissioners did (at the Time and Place) meet, and pro-
ceed to execute the Authority thereby given them; and did lay out
the said Parishes in the following Manner, as by the Return thereof
to this present General Assembly appears, viz. For William and
Mary Parish, in St. Mary's County, All the Land lying below the
Wading-Place of the Ordinary-Run, with a streight Line from
thence, to the Northermost Branch of Lewis's Creek on Patuxent
River.
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For King and Queen Parish, in St. Mary's County, all the Land
lying above the Wading-Place of the aforesaid Ordinary-Run, run-
ning along the main Road, towards the Court-House, until it comes
unto a Right-Hand Road, leading unto and by John Jarboe's, from
thence by John Ford's Plantation, until it comes to Christopher
Orril's, so along- the Road, until it cornea to Resurrection-Hundred,
and so with the Bounds of Newton-Hundred; excepting the follow-
ing Plantations, viz. John Nott's, Adam Clark's, Thomas Mooney's,
Luke Gardiner's, Elizabeth Cole's, William Snowden's, and Igna-
tius Craycroft's; also including both the Hundreds of St. Clement's
and Chapticoe.
For all Faith's Parish in St. Mary's County, the Residue of St.
Mary's County; and adding thereunto Benedict-Hundred, in
Charles County.
For Durham Parish, in Charles County, the Upper and Lower
Hundreds thereto now belonging; together with the Addition of
Part of that Hundred called West-side of Port-Tobacco Hundred,
adjoining on them; to be divided by a Line drawn from the Mouth
of a Branch of Port-Tobacco Creek, known by the Name of Love's
Gut, with the said Branch or Gut, to the Head of a Fork thereof,
just below the Plantation where Daniel Bryan lately dwelt; from
thence to the main Road that leads from Port-Tobacco Creek to
Piscattoway, near the Head of Pomphrett Race, so as to exclude
the Plantation where Daniel Jenifer lately dwelt, William Theo-
bald's and Benjamin Burgess's; thence with the said Road, until it
intersect Mattawoman Run.
For Port-Tobacco Parish, in Charles County, all the remaining
Part of the West Side of Port-Tobacco Hundred, that is not allot-
ted to Durham, with the Hundred on the East Side of Port-Tobacco
Creek; and such Part of the East and West Hundreds of Newport,
as may be divided therefrom by a Line drawn from an Oak stand-
ing on Zachia Swamp, just below Henry Jameson's, to the Head of
a Branch called the Hog-House Branch, including William New-
man's Plantation; and from thence to the dividing Line between
Charles and St. Mary's County.
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