Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 243

nail Survey thereof by the discression of the Neighbourhood that
are most Knowing in the ancient Meets and bounds of the Same
Two parcells of Land the better to finde out the true bounds of the
Land in Question, & that f air e plotts and Certificates of both y^e
same parcells of Land bee Returned to the next provinciall Court
that upon p[er]useing and Veiwing thereof, and hearing what Can
bee said on both sides the Court may doe therein as to Justice apper-
taines, Itt is by the Court this day Ordered that Randolph Brandt
gentl bee and is hereby especially Appointed impowered and Co-

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manded to lay out the aforesaid Two parcells of Land according to
the ancient Meets and bounds thereof in the p^rsence of the sheriffe
of Charles County aforesaid who is hereby Comanded and Im-
powered to Sumon and impannell a Jury of Twelve good Law full
and honest men of the Neighbourhood to goe upon the s^d Land,
and to Sumon and Examine Witnesses Upon oath that the truth
of the matter may bee fully discovere^d, And the said Randolph
Brandt is hereby Ordered to Runn the Lines according to the Evi-
dence then to bee Given and the direccons of the Jury and to returne
a Certificate of his Proceedings herein and a faire plott of the Land
in Question to the next provinciall Court to bee held att st Maryes
the Eleaventh day of May next attested aswell und^r the hand and
Seale of the said Randolph Brandt as of the sheriffe and Juro^rs
aforesaid That Soe his Lopps Justices being fully informed of the
truth of the p^rmisses may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine
Att w^ch said next provinciall Court To witt the fourteenth day
of May last past the aforesaid Randolph Brandt made returne of his
proceedings in the p^rmisses Und^r the hand and Seale of the sheriffe
and Jurors afores^d w^ch followes in these words Viz An Inquisition
Indented taken this ninth day of Aprill att the house of philip Lynes
in Charles County in the ffifth Yeare of the Dominion of the Right
hono^ble Charles absolute Lord and Prop^ry of the Provinces of Mary-
land and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c: and in the Yeare of
our Lord 1680 Before mee W^m Chandler Sheriffe of Charles
County aforesaid by vertue of an ord^r of a provinciall Court held
att the Citty of S^t Maryes the fourteenth day of ffebruary Annoqs
Domini 1679 Itt was then Ordered by the said Court That Randolph
Brandt gentT Deputy Surveyo^r for this County in the p^rsence of the
Sheriffe of the County aforesaid to Lay out Two parcells of Land
the one formerly Surveyed for ffrancis Posey and John Berlaines
plant^r Containing ffoure hundred and ffifty acres, and lately in the
Tenure and Occupation of Richard Watson dec^d and another parcell
of Land Called Stumpdale formerly Surveyed for Thomas Batchelo^r
Containing foure hundred and ffifty Acres, by a Jury of the Neigh-
bourhood to goe Upon the said Land to see the Lines of the said
two tracts of Land Runn out by the said Randolph Brandt ac-
cording to the Evidence then to bee given and the direccons of

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