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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
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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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