406 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

this Court doe order that the afores^d Randolph Brandt bee and is
hereby especially appointed Impowered and Comanded to lay out the
aforesaid Two parcells of Land called Watsons Land & Stumpe Dale
according to the Antient bounds thereof, and after the same is so
resurveyed and Laid out, Then to lay out the One hundred and fifty
acres of Land in Question, And that the Lands aforesaid by the said
surveyo^r bee Laid out in the p^rsence of the sheriffe of the said
County Who is hereby impowered & Comanded to sumon and im-
pannell a Jury of the Neighbourhood upon the said Land who are
to be duely sworne by the said Sheriffe to Direct the said Surveyo^r
according to the best of their Knowledges of the true antient bounds
of the aforesaid two parcells of Land called Watsons Land & Stumpe
Dale, & of the Land in Question, and to Examine Evidences upon
Oath that the truth of the matter may bee fully discovered, And the
said Surveyo^r is hereby Ordered to beginn to runn out the line or
Lines of all and every the said Tracts of Land at such bound tree or
Trees, and to runn the same Either backward or forwards to finde
out the Antient bounds thereof as the said Jury shall think fitt and
direct, and to returne seaverally a Certificate and Plott of each par-
cell of Land, and of his proceedings herein under his hand and Seale
and the hands and seales of the Sheriffe and Juro" aforesaid to his
Lopps Justices here att the next Provinciall Court That soe his
Lops Justices being fully informed of the Truth of the premisses
may Doe therein as to Justice appertaineth.
Att w^ch said Next Provinciall Court Came the Said partyes by
their Attorneys aforesaid, and the said Surveyo^r made Returne of
the Order aforesaid, by an Inquisicon w^ch ffollowes in these
words Viz

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An Inquisition Indented taken the first day of June 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 Prov-
inces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c and
in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred & Eighty.
Before M^r William Chandler Sheriffe of Charles County aforesaid
By vertue of an Order of a Provinciall Court held at the Citty of
st Maryes on the Eleaventh day of May last past. Whereas It was
then Ordered by the said Court that Randolph Brandt Deputy sur-
veyo^r of this County in the Presence of the sheriffe aforesaid To
Lay Out a parcell of Land formerly Surveyed for ffrancis Posey
and John Berlaines Plant^rs and lately in the Tenure and occupacon
of Richard Watson late of this County deceased, And also a parcell
of Land formerly surveyed for Thomas Batchelo^r Called stumpe
Dale according to the antient bounds thereof, And after the said
Two Tracts of Land are so resurveyed and laid out Then to lay out
One hundred and fifty acres of land formerly belonging to Thomas
Peircey late of this County deceased, and now in the posession of