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    East up the branch for Length three hundred Eighty pches, on the Liber C D
    East by a line drawn North East & by North from the End of the
    East line Line one hundred Sixty & five pches untill it Intersect a
    paralell drawn from the first marked oake & branch & on the North
    by the Said branch & paralell on the West by the S.d Creek And
    Whereas the Said Mathew Read hath Informed his Lopp the Ld
    Prop.ry of this Province that Robert Smith, Thomas Hylings and
    Thomas Hynson have upon Colour of Some defect in the Mathe
    maticall or Artificiall lines of the Said Patent Encroached upon, upon
    the lines of the Said Land And taken Patent or Patents for the
    Chief part of the Same without my Speciall warrant thereby En
    deavouring to defeat him of the Principall and best part of the
    Said Land And humbly prayed his Lopp by a Special Warr.t of
    Resurvey of the Said Land according to the Bounds
    Expressed in the Said Patent, And that if upon the Resurvey there
    Shall be found within the Bounds more than four hundd & tour
    acres that upon makeing Good Rights he might have the benefit
    thereof And it was Granted unto him
      Lay out therefore & Resurvey in the name of the sd Mathew
    Read the afd Tract of Land not only by the lines of m.r Clerk's
    Survey but also by the naturall Bounds mentioned in the Patent
    Provided the lines thereof Run not into any man's Lands of Ancienter
    Survey or Land Resurvey for his Lopps use and Return yo.r Certi
    ficate of Resurvey thereof with the name of the place in what County
    it Lyeth & of what manno.r to be holden into my office with all
    Convenient Speed and for So doing this Shall be your warrant
    Given under my hand & the Lesser and Lesser Seale of this Province
    the Eigth day of may in the fourth year of the Dominion of the (fol. 240)
    Right Hon.ble Charles Lord Baltemore & over Maryland Annoq
    Dom one thousand Six hundred Seventy nine.

    To Vincent Lowe Escp Surveyo.r
       Gen.ll or his Deputy

    March 22.th 1679
      Mandamus then issued to Clement Hill & Richard Gardner of S.t
    mary's Coty Gent that by the oaths of twelve &C they Enquire what
    Lands Coil.0 William Evans dyed Seized of &c ret without delay

      K: C.   Thomas Trueman ag.t Thomas Hoggleton Writt of
    Erro.r & Scire facias dat 24.th may ret 3.d June 1679

      S.r You are desired to drawn & deliver to the bearer mr Stephen p. 200
    Gary a Commission for Sheriff of Dorchester County for the En- (fol. 240)
    sueing year for which this Shall be yo.r warrant from
                            Yor affectionate Nephew
                                     C:     Baltemore