68        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.

        Liber C D Calvert County ss
                An Inquisition Indented taken at st Leonard's Creek the 11.th
        day of Decemb.r in the 40th year of the Dominion of Cecilius &ca
        Annoq Dom 1671 before Thomas Sprigg & Richard Perry Gent
        by virtue of a writt to them directed & hereunto annexed by the
        Oaths of John Gnammer Samuell Sprigg, John Parry John Martin,
        ffrancis ffoockes, Edward Armstrong Samuell Graves, Michaell
        Higgin John Norwood Samuell Taylor William Wilkenson and
        Samuell Styles who upon their Corporall oaths Say that Peter John-
        son in the writt named the day that he dyed was Seized in his De-
        measne as of ffee of one Tract of Land Lying on the north Side of
        Putuxent River near a Creek Called St Leonards Creek Beginning
        at a marked oake in the Woods near a hollow Called Johnson's Hol-
        (fol. 74) low Bounding on the north with the Hallow and a line drawn East
              into the Said Creek from the Said Hallow on the East with the
              Said Creek on the South with the Said Creek on the west with the
              Land of William Stone Esq.r Containing by Estimation Two hun-
              dred and Sixty acres more or Less the Same Land being held of
              his Lordship's the Lord prop.ry and his heirs as of the manno.r
           p.59   of S.t Maries in free and Common Soccage by ffealty only for all
        (fol. 74) Services being yearly worth above all Repnizes five Shillings two
              pence half penny farthing Sterling that he the S.d Peter Johnson
              dyed about the month of Aprill in the year 1660 and that James
              Johnson was Brother and heir to the s.d peter.
                Item The Jurors abovenamed further Say that the Said James
              Johnson in the writt named the day that he dyed was Seized in
              his Demeasne as of ffee of one Tract of Land Called Island neck
              Beginning at a marked oake standing by a marsh near the head of a
              Creek Called the Island Creek on the west Side thereof and Run-
              ning down the Creek into the Said River for Length Six hundred
              Eighty and five perches bounding on the South with the Said River
              for the Length of fifty pches to a Creek Called the Back Creek on
              the west with the Said Creek for the Length of four hundred and
              five perches to a marked beech Tree and with a line drawn north and
              by East from the Said Beech for the for ye Length of Two hundred
              & Seventy pches to a marked oake on the north with a line drawn
              East from the Said Oake into the Island Creek on the East with
              the Said Creek Containing by Estimation Six hundred acres more
              or Less the Same Land last menconed being hold of his said Lpp
       (fol. 75)  and his heirs as of their Said manno.r of S.t Maries in free & Com-
              mon Soccage by fealty only for all Services being yearly worth in
              all issues above Reprizes Twelve Shillings Sterling, and that the
              Said James Johnson Dyed, about the month of ffebruary in the
              year 1660 & that f Said James Johnson dyed without any Law full
              heir by which means as well the afores.d Tract of Land late in the
              possession of Peter Johnson aforesaid as also the afores.d Tract of