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104 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677. Liber N N Combes & Elizabeth his wife & Mary Roe, as by the plott hereunto annexed more plainly appeareth. To the Honble Thomas Notley Esqr Cheife justice of the Pro vinciall Court and to the rest of the Honble justices of the said Court. By virtue of an Order of the said Court made in an action of Ejectment there depending the sixth day of April last betweene John Rousby and Barbara his wife plaintiffs and Wm Combes and his wife defendants Wee the severall persons hereunder named being in pursuance and according to the direction of the said Order Sum moned and impannelled a jury by Colonell Lowe High Sheriff of Talbott County did together by Mr Charles Boteler the Deputy Surveyr therein named in the presence of the Said Sheriff Enter upon the Seate of Land called Plimhimmon scituate on the East side of Tredaven Creeke heretofore taken up by Henry Morgan de ceased and laid Out for six hundred acres more or lesse Wee the said Jurors being upon Our Oathes and haveing found the first p. 378 bound tree and runn Out three hundred perches East south East up the Creeke which Wee find to be the meets expressed in the said Patent but cannot find the second marke Oake in the said Patent mentioned to stand at the mouth of a branch although Wee have found the branch as Wee beleive. Wee have also runn Out the South line three hundred & twenty perches from the End of the said three hundred perches and from the end of the said South line running North north west for three hundred perches and from the end of the west north west line running north to the first bounded tree & Wee the said jurors doe all of Us upon Our Oathes Certifie and declare That the plantation in the Said Order mentioned now in the possession of Wm Winters at Wintersell the defendants Lessee that is to say all the cleare ground houses & ifences thereunto belonging are wholly within the lines of the said Patent of the said Land called Plimhimmon In testimony whereof Wee the jurors have hereunto sett Our hands & Scales the 17th day of May 1677. Thomas Alexander (sealed)the marke of the marke of Wm M Gascoign(sealed) Henry HC Clay(sealed) the marke of the marke of Wm O Godden (sealed) Edward E S Stephens (sealed) the marke of Robert Collyer(sealed) Edward E ifuller (sealed) Lowe Vic (sealed)the marke of the marke of Wm C Coxell(sealed) Wm h Hodson(sealed) the marke of the marke of Zerubabell SW Wells (sealed) Thomas T Wilson (sealed)John Harmer jur. (sealed) C: Boteler(sealed). Which being read and heard day was given to the Said parties untill the next Provinciall Court Att which Said next Court to wit |
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