202        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

 Liber W. C.     that the said Comission of resurvey might be renewed And that the
                 said Deputy Surveyor might be Ordered to runn the Lines of the
                 said Land according to the Lines menconed in the Pattent of the
                 said Peter Sayer in the presence of the sheriffe and a Jury of the
                 Neighbourhood Whereupon it was Upon the said sixteenth Day of
                 November aforesaid by the said Court Ordered that the said Rich
                 ard Peacock should be & was thereby Especially appointed Empow
                 ered and comanded againe to resurvey and Lay out the aforesaid
                 parcell of Land called Marron 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 and to
                 sumon & Examine witnesses upon Oath (if occasion were) that
                 the truth of the matter and the true bounds of the said One hun
                 dred and thirty Acres of Land might be fully Discovered And the
                 said Richard Peacock was thereby ordered to runn the Lines accord
                 ing to the Lines and Courses mentioned in the Pattent & also the
                 Imaginary Lines And to run out the true Lines of the said Creeke
                 called Champes Creeke, and to returne a Certificate of his Proceed
                 ings therein and a faire plot of the Land in question and the Creeke
                 aforesaid to the then next Provinciall Court to be held at the Citty
                 of st Maryes the Eight and twentyeth Day of ffebruary then next
                 Att wch said Eight and twentyeth day of ffebruary Came the said
                 partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid and the said Richard Peacock
                 Came also and Certified to this Court that on the three and twentieth
                 day of the same ffebruary hee the said Richard Peacock in the prsence
                 of the Sheriffe of Talbott County aforesaid & a Jury of the Neigh
                 bourhood Did Lay out and resurvey part of the said Land Called
                 Marron Begining at a marked oake being then Admitted by the said
                 Jury and also Concluded by a former Jury to be the first bounded
                 tree of the said Land and runing thence South by east One hun
                 dred ffifty six perches to a Creeke called Champes Creeke, And from
                 the said Creek by a line Drawne East Three hundred and twenty
                 perches, And from the End of the East line North by west untill
                 they Did Intersect a Line Drawne East by south from the aforesaid
                 marked Oake, but the night comeing on they Could not then runn
                 out the said North by west Line And the next morning part of the
                 Jury Declareing they were not satisfied with the truth of the first
                 bounded tree and soe they would proceede noe further as by a Cer
                 tificate under their hands and seales appeares, soe that they could
                 not perfect the said Survey, And thereupon the said Cause was
                 Continued untill this present day to wit the sixth day of May afore
                 said, At wch said Day Came the said partyes by their Attorneys
                 aforesaid And the said plt by his said Attorney prayed that a New
                 Comission of resurvey may Issue to resurvey and Lay out the said
                 Land Called Marron and that a new Jury may be Ordered to see