182 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

Slye the Daughters of the said Robert Slye in Right of the said
Elizabeth and ffrances, against the said Gerrard Slye being named
Defendant According to the ancient meets & bounds thereof in
presence of the sheriffe of st Maryes County and a Jury to goe upon
the Land, and Examine Evidences upon oath, and to see the said
Land Laid out According to theire best skill and Knowledge Accord-
ing to the Ancient meets and bounds thereof
Now. (To witt) the Two and Twentieth day of Aprill Annoq
Domny 1680, Majo^r William Boarman sheriffe of st Maryes County
did Impannell and Swear a Jury of the neighbourhood According
to the said order (viz namely) Will Roswell, Thomas Carvile, Ed-
ward Turner, John Tennison, John Shankes Joshua Guybert, John
Bullock, Sam^ll Maddox, John Hilton, Vincent Manfeild, Thomas
Reeves, and Nehemiah Blackiston, Jurors, Which Jurors doe upon
theire oathes say, That they find according to the Evidence of,
Cap^t Justinian Gerrard susanna Coode, Thomas Reeves, John Slye,
Thomas Reynolds, Morrice Miles and Nehemiah Blackiston Wit-
nesses, That they finde the said Tract of land according to the
Ancient meetes and bounds thereof, To Beginnne, att a Red oake
marked w^th nine Notches Standing att the Lower end of Maiden
swampe on the west side thereof near e the back Creeke that runns
up betweene Mattapany and Richard ffosters, Runing up the said
Swampe east north east from the said oake one hundred and sixty
perches, Thence north east and by east Eighty perches up to the
End of the Rich Land to a marked white oake with nine notches,
and from the said oake by a Line drawne north Easterly Two hun-
dred perches to a bounded Red oake marked with nine notches
standing neare a small fresh Runn under the high grounds, and by
the path that Leads from Bushwood Towards the head of Clements

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bay, Thence north west Two hundred and eighty perches to a bounde
Pokiccory tree standing on the east side of a greate Valley on the
high grounds being one of the bound Trees of Robert Slyes Tract
of Land called Bushwood Thence south westerly one hundred
forty foure perches to a marked Gumm standing att the head of
Mannatopason Runn Thence south downe the said Runn eighty
eight perches, Thence as the Runn Runns South west thirty two
perches to a path that Leades from Bushwood to the Church, Thence
Downe the said Runn South west and by south forty eight perches,
thence south Thirty two perches, Thence west south west fifteene
perches to a marked Post marked with R S: 1669, Thence south
west and by south Thirty six perches Thence south fifty six perches
to a bridge, Thence south and by east twenty foure perches to the
swampe, Thence south east and by south Seaventy six perches to the
first bound tree: Containing and now Laid out for ffive hundred
Twenty foure Acres, And this is the truth to the best of our Knowl-
edge, as witnesse our hands and seales of the said John Manley
Deputy surveyo^r and the said sheriffe of st Maryes County & Juro"