Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     103

       Boteler Deputy Surveyour be especially appointed by this Court & Liber N N
       is hereby appointed impowered and Comãnded to lay Out the afore
       said Land & runn Out their meets & bounds according to the antient
       survey and Patent aforesaid to the said Henry Morgan in the
       presence of the Sheriff of Talbott County who is hereby Comanded p. 377
       and impowered to sumon a jury of twelve honest and legall men of
       the neighbourhood who together with the Said Deputy Surveyour
       are to enquire & certifie whether the said Land in question now or
       late in the possession of the said Winters alias Wintersell or any
       and what part thereof be within the lines of the said Patent of the
       said land called Plymhimmon and to returne a certificate of his
       and their proceedings herein and a faire plott distinctly drawn of
       the said Land in question to the next Provinciall Court to be held
       at st Maries the ninetenth day of June next attested aswell under the
       hand & seale of the Said Surveyr as aforesaid as of the Said Sheriff
       and jurors that so his Lopps justices being fully informed of the
       truth of the premisses may doe therein as to justice shall appurteine.
         Att which said ninetenth day of June Came the Said Surveyour
       and made returne of the said Order in these words following. vizt.
     May 17th 1677. To the Thomas Notley Cheife justice of the
                  Province of Maryland and the rest of the Honble
                  the justices of the Provinciall Court.
         Whereas an Order of his Lordshipps Provinciall Court hath been
       directed unto me Comanding me to Survey and Sett forth a certaine
       parcell of Land called Plimhimmon lyeing in Talbott County On
       the East side of Tredaven Creeke in the presence of the Sheriff of
       the same County and by the direction of twelve honest & legall men
       of the same County.
         These are humbly to certifie That I Charles Boteler Deputy Sur
       veyr under Baker Brooke Esqr Surveyour Generall have laid Out
       and resurveyed the said parcell of land called Plimhimmon in the
       prseflce of the said Sheriff & by the direction of twelve men of the
       same County by the said Sheriff impannelled & sworne upon the same
       land, whose bounds are as follow that is to say Begining at a bounded
       Oake standing by the side of a Branch of the same Creeke the said
       Oake being reputed the antient bounded tree of the first survey of
       the Same Land & from thence runing East south East for three
       hundred perches & from the end of the said three hundred perches
       runing South for three hundred & twenty perches and from the End
       of the said South line runing west northwest for three hundred
       perches and from the end of the said west north west runing north
       to the first bounded tree Containeing six hundred acres and includ
       ing within the same bounds the whole Plantation with all the houses
       & ifenceing of & in the possession of Wm Winters al Wintersell
       being the Land now in difference betweene John Rousby and Wm