468    Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.




        Liber JJ   Surveyes that he the said Phillip shall make, Resurveys, Running out
              of mens lines, laying out of mens bounds according to the limits of
              their Patents or the like, and for the other halfe he the said Phillipp
              is to be accomptable to me, or whome I shall appointe, once Every
              yeare at least, Given under my hand and seale this day the fourth
              day of January in the Eight and thirtieth yeare of the Dominion over
              the said Province Anno 1669. Jerome White Survr GenTtt

               Instructions given from Jerome White Esquire Surveyour Gen-
              erall of the Province of Maryland unto Phillip Shapleigh, one of
              his Deputy Surveyours In Somerset County, Dorset County, and to
              the Seabord side from a Creeke called the Hoorekill for his better
              Executing of his said Office in those Places.
               Imprimis That you see the Mannor reserved in Nantecoake lye-
              ing in Somerset County be not Surveyd for any person but for the
              Lord Proprietaryes, and to lay out one other Mannor within the
              said County for the said Lord Proprietary to conteine Six Thowsand
              acres of land at least, of best you can finde.
               2: That you lay out for the Lord Proprietary a Mannor to con-
              teine Six Thowsand acres of the best land within the Creeke lying
              in Dorset County called Chicknacomacow otherwayes to be called
              Phillips Creeke, in the name of Phillip Calvert Chancelour of this
              Province.
               3: That you Keepe that Reserve intire what hath beene already
              ordered and Recorded for the Lord Proprietary to the Seabord side
              that is Tenne miles from Mount Scarborough Northward by the
              water, and two miles into the woods and that you see their be layd
              out for the said Lord One other Mannor to the seaborde side, within
              the abovesaid limited bounds to conteine Six Thowsand acres at
              least of the best land.
        [p. 20] 4: That you doe not Survey from tyme to tyme any land Ex-
              cepted to the Lord Proprietary for any person whatsoever without
              Speciall warrant.
               5: That you doe not allow by the water side above fifteene Perches
              breadth for Every fivety acres of land, provided the survey be for
              more then three hundred acres of land, but if three hundred or under
              then to allow five and Twenty Perches breadth for Every fivety acres
              of land, aliwayes provided that naturall Boundes or Swampes be not
              a hinderance.
               6: That you lay out one other Mannor within somerset County
              upon the Ridge lyeing betweene Nantecoake River and Wickocomico
              River and in case the said Ridge should not prove good land then to
              seeke out some other place the best within the County, the said
              Mannor to conteine Six Thowsand acres at least.

               Articles of Agreement made and agreed upon betweene William
              Berry of the one part and Margaret Preston both of Patuxent River