Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   235






      To the R.t Ho[nble the] Lord Prop.ry of Maryland & Avalon Liber CD
    Lord Baron of Baltemore &c               (fol. 230)
    March 15.th 1678
      By Virtue of a Speciall Warrant bearing date the Twentieth
    day of ffebruary one thousand Six hundred Seventy Seven these are
    in humble ma to Certifie that I George Yate Deputy Survey
    under Baker Br[ooke] Esq Survey.r Gen.” have Laid out and
    Resurveyed for William Hun[t a] parcell of Land Called Maidstone
    afterwards possessed and held of one W.m Crosley for three hundred
    and fifty acres of Land as appears it Beginneth at a Bounded white
    oake it being a bounded Tree of a parcell of Land formerly laid out
    for Thomas iford Called Goury Bancks and Running west Two p. 192
    hundred & Twenty five pches to a Bounded white Oake Standing by (fol. 230)
    a branch of Lands Creek then North three hundred and twenty
    pches to a Bounded white Oake Standing in the line of the Land
    formerly laid out for Samuell Chew Escp Called Sanckley and
    bounding on the sd Land and the Land Called Goury Bancks to the
    first Bounded Tree Containing & now laid out for four hundred and
    fifty acres of Land more or Less To be held of the manno.r of Ann
    Arundell
                        p me Geo: Yate Deputy Surveyor
      On the Backside of the aforegoing Peticon was Written Viz.t
    March 24th 1678
      Let Mandamus go out of the Sec.rys office to Satisfie whether the
    Land within menconed be Escheated or not C. Balternore
    To Wm Calvert Esq Secry or to his
        Chief Ctk at his office at S.t Marys

      Charles &C To Nathaniell Heathcoat & Samuell Lane of Ann
    Arundell Co.ty Gent Greeting We Command you that by the Oathes
    of twelve Good & Lawfull men [of our said] County of Ann
    Arundell you diligently Inquire who ha Occupy a
    Certain Tract of Land Containing by Survey and Gr [ant under] the
    Great Seal of our S.d Province to wm Hunt late of Ann Arundell
    County the five and Twentieth day of Septemb.r one thousand
    Seven hundred Sixty three Three hundred & fifty acres & who the
    issues & profits thereof hath or doth receive by what Title and
    howe in what manner, And that you diligently Inquire who hath
    paid the Rent for the Same, and to whom & the Inquisition thereof
    distinctly openly made to us in our Chancery under your hands &
    Seals & the hands & [seales o] f these by whom it Shall be made
    without delay you Send an Writt Wittness &a dat 24.th
    march 1678

      Between John Haselwood & his wife plt Benjamin Granger de
    fend.t In Chancery