Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   307





    the Seventh day of march in the fourth year of our Dominion &c Liber C D
    Annop Domini one thousand Six hund.d Seventy eight

     An Inquisition Indented taken the Twenty fifth day of November
    in the fourth year of the Dominion of the R.t Hon.ble Charles
    absolute Lord & Prop.ry of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon
    Lord Baron of Baltemore &c and in the year of our Lord one
    thousand Six hundred Seventy nine at the house of Roh.t Doyne
    Gent at Nanjemy in Charles County before John Stone & William
    Barton Gent by Virtue of a Commission to them directed in the
    nature of a writt of mandamus and to this Inquisition annexed
    by the Oaths of Cleborne Lomax George Godfrey Thomas Mitchell
    John Clement James Wheeler, Richard Hall Nicholas Cooper
    mathew ifarman, John Boise, John Lambert, William Theobalds
    Phillip Hoskins to go along with Richard Edelen or Cap.t Rand.o
    Bnandt or either of them that they Begin his or their Survey of a (fol. 309)
    parcell of Land Called Rotterdam Lying in Nanjemy in Charles
    Co.ty aforesd and Begin the Said Survey of the Said parcell of Land
    at a banded Spanish oake Standing in a forke at the head of Chan
    dlers marsh and So to prosecute his or their Survey of the sd pcell of
    Land Called Rotterdam according to the Originall Certificate of
    Survey made by Robert Clarke late Survey.r Gen.ll of this Province
     Jurors upon their Oaths Says according to the Informacon of
    Richard Edelen that they did See Cap.t Brent Begin the
    Survey of the afores.d parcell of Land Called Rotterdam at a bounded
    Spanish oake Standing in a forke at the head of Chandlers marsh
    to w.ch the S.d Rich.' Edelen was directed by a Jury of ye Neigh
    bourhood as by an Inquisition under their hands & Seals taken the
    Eighteenth day of September last past may appear, from the Said
    Spanish Oake to runn north East and by east one hundred Sixty
    and five perches untill it Intersects a paralell line thence East five
    hundred perches to a bounded oake with Six notches on the north
    Side Creek thence Running South west & by west from
    the East line one hundred Sixty and five pches untill
    it paralell line drawn from the sd Chandlers marsh
    In Wittness whereof the Comiss.rs with the Survey.r as well as the
    Juro.rs have hereunto Set their hands and Seals the day and year
    above Written
                               Rand.° Brandt sealed
                               Cleborne Lomax sealed
    Maryland ss.                                p. 251
     Whereas By virtue of a mandamus from the R.t Hon.ble the Lord (fol. 309)
    Propry bearing date the fifteenth day of November Instant Com
    manding to Call before us Twelve Good and Lawfull men of the
    neighbourhood and Richard Edelen and Rand.° Brandt or either of