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    the same resurveyed and Layd out Whereupon Itt is by the Court           Liber W. C.
    here Ordered that the said Richard Peacock gentl be and is hereby
    Especially appointed Impowered and comanded againe to resurvey
    and Lay out the aforesaid parcell of Land called Marron in the
    prsence of the sheriffe of Talbott County aforesaid, Wch said sheriffe
    is hereby also Impowered and Comanded to sumon and Impannell
    a Jury of Twelve other good good and Lawfull men of the Neigh-             p.
    bourhood to goe upon the said Land And to sumon and Examine
    witnesses upon oath (if occasion be) That the truth of the matter
    and the true bounds of the said Land may be fully discovered, And
    the said Richard Peacock is hereby Ordered first to runn the Lines
    of the said Land according to the naturall bounds thereof & Sec
    ondly according to the Imaginary lines thereof, and that then he
    run the Line that Runs over the Creeke called Champes Creeke,
    And that he returne a seaverall and Distinct Certificate of each
    survey by him to be made as aforesaid and faire Plotts thereof to
    the next Provinciall Court to be held at the Citty of st Maryes the
    Six Twentyeth day of september next Attested as well under the
    hand and Seale of the said Surveyor as of the Sheriffe and Jurors
    aforesaid that soe his Lopps Justices being fully Informed of the
    truth of the prmisses may Doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine

    Ralph Shaw
       agt   In Ejectment Eod: Die.
    Philip Lynes
               Whereas by a former Order made in this Cause
    bearing Date the nineteenth day of November Anno Doni 1681
    It being alleadged that the plt as Lessee of Michael Ashford &
    Rachell his wife Comenced their accon against John Clarke as
    Casuall Ejector and the said Philip Lynes haveing named himself
    deft to Defend his title to a parcell of Land Lately by him the said
    Lynes purchased of and from one George Gooderick being part of a
    greater tract of Land granted to the said George Gooderick Contain
    ing six hundred Acres of Land Lyeing next Adjoyning to a Par-
    cell of Land belonging to the said Michael Ashford and Rachell his
    wife in right of the said Rachell, And the said Ashfords Land being
    sayd to be bounded on the line of the said George Goodericks land
    That is to say where the old bounds of the said Goodericks land ends
    There the Land of the said Michael Ashfords is to beginn, And the
    Difference in question being about the true Antient bounds of the
    said Goodericks Land, and it being insisted on by the Attorney of
    the said Lynes that according to the old survey made by Mr Clarke
    the then Surveyor Generall and the Quantity or number of perches
    menconed in the pattent The same would not reach to the old bounds
    of the sd Goodericks Land but there is upon a Resurvey thereof a
    Surplusage of land wthin the said old bounds of the said Goodericks