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108 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. Liber W. C. the aforesaid One Thousand Acres of land called Brookes Ridge according to the true Antient meetes and bounds thereof, and that faire plotts and Certificates of both the said parcelis of land be returned to the next Provinciall Court Soc that upon pusail and veiwing thereof and heareing of what can be Sayd on both sides the Court may doe therein what to Justice shall appertaine, Itt is there fore by the Court this day ordered that George Yate gentl Deputy Surveyor bee and is hereby Especially appointed Impowered & comanded ffirst to Resurvey and layout the aforesaid parcell of land called Mount Caivert, and then the aforesaid parcell of land Called Brooke Ridge according to the true antient Meetes and bounds of both the said parcells of land as is mentioned in the Pattents for the same, In the presence of John Craycroft gentt Coroner of Calvert County aforesaid, Wch said Coroner is hereby Impowered and comanded to sumon & Impanell a Jury of Twelve good and Lawfuil men of the Neighbourhood who are to be by him the said Coroner duely sworne and to goe upon the said Lands with the said surveyor to see the same iayd out as aforesaid, and if occasion require) the sd Coroner is also Empowered and comanded to Sumon and Examine witnesses upon oath thereby to finde out the True bounds of the said Two parcells of land according to ye Pattents for the same as a fore said, and to returne a Certificate and faire Piott of both the said parcells of land to the next Provinciall Court to be held at the Citty of st Maryes the Eight and Twentyeth day of ffebruary next attested aswell undr the hand and scales of the said Surveyor as of the sher iffe and Jurors aforesaid That soe his Lordshipps Justices being fully informed of the truth of the premisses may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine John Watkinson In Ejectmt November the 16th 1681 agt Thomas Collins Whereas by a former order made in this Cause bearing date the Eight and Twentyeth day of Aprill last past It appeareing to the Court then that this was an action of Ejectment comenced by the plt as Lessee of Peter Sawyer p. 490 and Frances his wife one of the Daughters and Coeheires of Henry Morgan deceased against Christopher Goodhand casuall Ejector and the said Thomas Collins haveing named himself deft instead of the Casuall Ejector to try the title to one messuage Containing one hundred and Thirty Acres of land called Marron Lyeing on the east side of Chesepeake bay on the north side of a River in the said bay Called st Michaels River in the County of Talbot next adjoyn ing to the Land formerly taken up by Henry Morgan deceased called Morgans st Michaels and now in dispute betweene the said John Watkinson and Thomas Collins, and the Court then findeing it necessary that the said one hundred & thirty Acres of land called Marron should be Laid out according to the Knowne antient bounds |
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