452       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

           Liber N N  bearing date the fourteenth day of ffebruary in the second yeare of
                  his Lordpps Dominion Annoq Doni one thousand six hundred sev
                  enty seven I was comanded to lay out & Survey one tract of land
                  lying next above a parcell of land now in question between Daniel
                  Cuningham & Bridget his wife late Daughter of John Potts deceased
                  plaintiffes & Richard Edwards & Hannah his wife Defendts to the
                  intent that the bounds of the land in question may be found out &
                  ascertained And the bounds so found to lay out the land in question
                  between the parties aforesaid These are therefore humbly to Certifie
                  that I Charles Boteler Deputy Surveyr under Baker Brooke Esqr
                  Surveyr Gen” haue laid out the said tract of land above the land in
                  question, begining att the mouth of a small runn called ifendalls
                  ifresh & runing down the river as the river runeth one hundred thirty
                  & five perches, which lyne doth sufficiently ascertaine the begining
                  point of the land in question Therefore these are further to certifie
                  yor Honors that the bounds of the land in question are as followeth
                  vizt begining att the end of One hundred thirty & five perches from
                  ifendalls fresh att an Oak now marked with eight notches, & from
              p. 670  thence runing South & by West Downe the River for One hundred
                  & five perches, & from thence runing West for three hundred &
                  twenty perches & from the end of the said West line runing North
                  And by East till itt intersect a West line drawn from the first tree
                  containing two hundred acres being the North part of a tract of land
                  late in the possession of John Potts deceased called Mount pleasant,
                  includeing within the aforesaid lines about ffif teen acres of the cleared
                  ground or plantacon now occupyed by the said Richard Edwards but
                  not any of the houses belonging to the same. by Cha. Boteler Surveyr.
                    Afterwards to witt the ffifteenth day of June in the third yeare of
                  his Lordpps Dominion &c Annoq3 Doni 1678 came the said partyes
                  by their Attorneys aforesaid and referred the plea aforesaid to the
                  judgemt of the Court Whereupon the Certificate aforesaid being
                  read & heard & by the Justices here fully understood And the plott
                  of the said land being by them seen, itt is ordered by the Court here
                  that the said partyes plaintiffes & Defendts doe hold their severall
                  tracts of land according to the Certificate & plott aforesaid And that
                  each party beare his owne charges

                    Whereas heretofore to witt the twentieth day of April in the sec
                  ond yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq3
                  Doni One thousand six hundred Seventy seven Jonathan Sibrey
                  Guardian to & on the beha!fe of John Howell & Nathaniel Howell
                  Execrs of the last Will & testamt of Thomas Howell deceased ob
                  tained judgemt in this Court agst James Ives the Suertyes of Samuel
                  Boston late high Sheriffe of Baltemore County deceased for a pre
                  tended debt of nineteen hundred & five pounds of tobacco together
                  with one hundred & ninety pds of tobacco damages occasioned by