Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 467




      question between William Russell & James Neale doe deliver their Liber M M
      Verdict following Vizt That they have directed Richard Edelin
      Deputy Surveyr to runn the lines of the Said lands according to their
      meets & bounds. in their respective Certificates & pattents mentioned
      and doe find that the Land now in question lately in the possession of
      John Lovett now in the tenure or Occupation of Margarett Lovett
      Relict of the said John by virtue of a lease from the said James
      Neale together with the plantation and all the houses thereon erected
      to be and lye within the lines meets and bounds of the Land belong
      ing to William Russell as by, plott & Certificate by the aforesaid Sur
      veyr made it doth and may more fully and at large appeare.
        And also the Said Deputy Surveyr Richard Edelin by his Certifi
      cate beareing date November the six & twentith One thousand six
      hundred seventy foure and to the Honble Charles Calvert Esp Chei fe
      justice of this Province and the rest of the justices of the Provinciall
      Court did Certifie By Virtue of an Order of the Provinciall beareing P.459

      date the 16th of October One thousand six hundred seventy foure him
      comanding & impowering That he the said Richard Edelin Deputy
      Under Baker Brooke Esq Surveyr Generall in Obedience to the
      Order have laid Out the lands in question betweene James Neale
      Gent & Wm Russell according to their respective Certificates attestcl
      under the hand of John Blomfeild Clerke of his Lopps Secretaryes
      Office and the direction of the jury impannelled & sworne by Benjamin
      Rozer Sheriff of Charles County to enquire & give directions con
      cerning the same whose verdict is hereunto annexed which land lyeth
      On Wicocomoco River near the Land of the said Neale & bounding
      On the west of Neales marsh & bounding On the South with a Creeke
      called St James's Creeke On the east with the said River On the
      north with a line drawne East South east to a white Oake standing
      by Wiccocomoco River by Newtons Cove. Likewise he hath laid Out
      the Land of Wm Russell and by the direcön of the jury and Certifi
      cate lyeing On the west side of Wiccocomoco River Beginning at a
      marked Oake Standing at the mouth of a branch called Russells
      branch and runing South from the said Oake to the head of the said
      branch for the length of One hundred perches to a marked Ash &
      bounding On the south with a line drawne West for the lenght of
      three hundred & fifty perches to a marked white Oake near the Land
      of the said Neale thence northwest Sixty foure perches thence East
      into the first South line.
        Which said returne of the said Sheriff & jurors & of the said
      Deputy Surveyr before the said justices of the said Provinciall Court
      at the Citty of St Maries the twelfth day of December in the yeare
      aforesaid being read & by the said justices fully understood & the
      partyes a foresaid appeareing by their respective Attornyes that is to
      say the said Wm Russell by Robert Carvile his Attorny & the said
      James Neale & Anna his wife by Keneim Cheseldyn their Attorny