Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.     201

     bay on the north side of a River in the said bay called st Michaels        Liber W. C.
     River in the County of Talbot next Adjoyning to Morgans st Mi
     chaels and being now in Dispute between the said John Watkinson
     and Thomas Collins, And the Court then finding it necessary that
     the said One hundred and thirty Acres of land called Marron, should
     be Layd out according to the knowne Antient bounds thereof by some
     skilfull person by the Directions of ye Neighbourhood that were
     most Knowing thereof, And that after the said Surveyor wth the
     directions of the neighbourhood had runn out the Lines thereof he
     should returne a faire Plot and Certificate thereof to the then next
     Provinciall Court soe that upon pusall and veiw thereof and beer
     ing 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 gentl. Deputy Surveyor of Talbot
     County should be and was thereby 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 Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood to goe upon the said
     Land And to sumon and Examine witnesses upon oath that the
     truth of the matter and the bounds of the said Parcell of Land
     might 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 proceed
     ing therein and a faire plot 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 fourth day of October afore
     said Came the said partyes by their Attorneys and the said Cause
     was continued untill the sixteenth day of November then next Att
     wch day Came also the said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid
     And the said Richard Peacock came also and Certified to this
     Court that on the fourteenth day of July last he had Layd out and
     Resurveyed part of the said Land Called Marron in the ptsence of
     the Sheriffe of Talbot County and Twelve men Impannelled by him
     upon a Jury for that purpose Begining at a marked oake neare the
     end of a 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 to two marked Cedars, And
     Whereas in the Pattent for the aforesaid parcell of Land Called
     Marron it is Exprest 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 of the said
     Line 1 by reason of that word, Up, the said Creeke, part of them
     being for Runing the said Line East & the rest for Runing up but            p. 557
     not over the Creeke, Att Champes Creeke aforesaid they ended the
     said Resurvey, Itt was thereupon prayed by the said pits Attorney