Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     131

       Court, it is by the Court this day Ordered That Mr ffrancis Jenkins Liber N N
       Deputy Surveyr of the said County be especially appointed by this
       Court and is hereby appointed impowered & comanded to lay Out the
       lands of the said parties according to their antient meets & bounds
       runing the lines according to the patents in the prseflce of the Sheriff
       of the Said County who is hereby comanded & impowered to Sumón
       & impannell a jury upon the said Lands & examine evidences upon
       Oath that the truth of the matter may be fully discovered & the said
       Surveyr is hereby Ordered to runn his lines according to the evidence
       then given & the direction of the jury & to returne a certificate of
       his proceedings herein & a faire plott distinctly drawne of the lands
       in question together with the evidence that was then sworne to the
       next Provinciall Court attested under the hand of the Said Surveyr
       Sheriff & jurors That so his Lofps justices being fully informed of
       the truth of the premisses may doe therein as to justice appurteineth.

       Ninian Beale It appeareing to the Court here the eighth day of Octo
          agt ber One thousand six hundred Seventy Seaven That
     James Moore this action in Ejectment was comenced by the said
                Ninian Beale as Lessee to Daniel Cunningham &
       Bridget his wife against the said James Moore casuall Ejector and
       Richard Edwards & Hannah his wife being named defendants in
       stead of the casuall ejector to try the title to a parcell of land of two
       hundred acres scituate lyeing & being On the notherne Branch of
       Petuxent River being the north part of a tract of Land late in the
       possession of John Potts deceased called Mount Pleasant being now
       in dispute betweene the said Daniel Cunningham & Bridget his wife
       & the said Richard Edwards & Hannah his wife, And the Court
       finding it necessary that a faire plott & certificate thereof be returned
       to the Court It is by the Court this day Ordered that Charles Boteler
       Deputy Surveyr be especially appointed by this Court & is hereby
       appointed impowered & coiñanded to lay Out the land aforesaid & to
       runn Out the true lines & Sett Out their meets & bounds according to
       the true intent & meaning of the Will of John Pott deceased & to
       returne a Certificate of his proceedings herein & a faire plott dis
       tinctly drawne of the said land in Question to the next Provinciall
       Court to be held at st Maries the fourth day of December next at
       tested under his hand that so his Lopps justices being fully informed
       of the truth of the prmisses may doe therein what to justice shall
       appurteine.

       Henry Coursey Esq Be it remembered That the Sevententh day of
          agt April in the second yeare of the Dominion
       Peter Sayerof the Right Honble Charles Absolute Lord &
       Proprietary &c & in the yeare of Our Lord
       One thousand six hundred seventy Seaven Came here into Court