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    thereof by some skilfull person by ye directions of the Neighbourhood        Liber W. C.
    that were most Knowing thereof, and that after the said Surveyor
    wth the direccons of the Neighbourhood had Runn out the Lines
    thereof he should returne a faire plott and Certificate to the then
    next Provincl Court, Soe that upon perusall and veiw thereof and
    heareing what could be Said on either side the Court might doe
    therein what to Justice Should appertaine And accordingly the Court
    did then order that Richard Peacock gentt deputy Surveyor of Tal
    bot County should be especially appointed Empowered and comanded
    to lay out the aforesaid parcell of land in the presence of the sheriffe
    of the said County wch said sheriffe was thereby also Impowered and
    comanded to sumon and Impannell a Jury of Twelve good and Law-
    full men of the Neighbourhood to goe upon the said Land & to sumon
    and Examine Witnesses upon oath that the Truth of the matter and
    the bounds of the said One hundred and thirty Acres of land may be
    fully Discovered, and the said Richard Peacock was thereby ordered
    to Runn the Lines according to the Pattent and the directions of the
    Jury and to returne a certificate of his proceedings herein and a
    faire plott of the Land in Question to the then next Provinciall Court
    to be held at the Citty of st Maryes the fourth day of October then
    next Att wch said ffourth day of October aforesaid came the said
    partyes by their Attorneys and the said Cause was continued to this
    present day Att wch day came also the partyes aforesaid by their
    Attorneys aforesaid and the said Richard Peacock came also and
    Certified to this Court that on the fourteenth day of July last past
    he had Layd out and resurveyed part of the said Land Called Marron
    in the presence of the Sheriffe of Talbot County and of Twelve men
    Impannelled by him upon a Jury for that purpose, Beginning at a
    marked oake Neare the End of the south Line of a parcell of land
    called Morgans St Michaels, and Runing thence south and by East,
    One hundred and Sixty perches to a Creeke called Champes Creeke               p. 491
    to Two marked Cedars, and Whereas in the pattent for the a fore
    said Land of Marron It is Expressed Bounding on the South by a
    Line drawne East up the said Creeke Three hundred and Twenty
    perches, The Jurors aforesaid being not agreed upon the Runing
    out the said Line by reason of that word Up the said Creeke part
    of them being for Runing the said Line East and the rest for runing
    upp but not over the Creeke at Champes Creeke aforesaid they
    Ended the said resurvey It was thereupon prayed by the said plan
    tiffes Attorney that the said Comission of resurvey may be renewed
    and that the said Deputy Surveyor may be Ordered to Runn the
    same according to the Lines menconed in the Pattent of the said
    Peter Sawyer in the presence of a Jury of the Neighbourhood,
    Whereupon It is Ordered this day that the said Richard Peacock bee
    and is hereby especially appointed Impowered and comanded to Lay
    out and resurvey the aforesaid parcell of land called Marron in the