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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 |
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