222        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

 Liber W. C.     the appurtenences Whereby he the said James became Lawfully
                 Seized & posessed thereof And is in legall and actual posession of
                 the same But the said James further Sayth that Notwithstanding
                 the pits doe pretend that the Two hundred Acres of land aforesaid
                 Called Plaine Dealeing is part of the said six hundred and fifty
                 Acres called Alexandrs place mentioned in the said Declaracon Yett
                 this deft saith that the same Two hundred Acres of land called
                 Plaine Dealeing is not within the true Artificiall Lynes and Limitts
                 of of the said Six hundred and fifty Acres of Land Called Alexandrs
                 place Mentioned in the Declaracon and therefore is not part or
                 parcell thereof, And this Deft likewise sayth he Disclaymes all right
                 Title and interest in the foure hundred and fifty Acres residue of
                 the said six hundred and fifty Acres Menconed as aforesaid in the
                 said Declaracon And this he this deft is ready to Averre & there
                 fore Prayes Judgment and that the said pits may be barred from
                 haveing their Accon aforesaid
                  Afterwards to wit the two and twentyeth day of ffebruary in the
                 sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltemore &c. Annoq Doni 168o: Came the said partyes by their
                 Attorneys aforesaid And this Cause standing at Issue ready f or
                 tryall this present Court but because it appeareth to the Court here
                 that the same is an action of Ejectment And that it is Comenced
                 by the said Roger Eades as Lessee of Anthony Dawson and Re
                 beckah his wife & Thomas Walker & Sarah his wife against William
                 Read Casuall Ejector And the said James Peterkin haveing named
                 himself defendant instead of the Casuall Ejector to Try the Title
                 to One Messuage and Six hundred and fifty Acres of land called
                 Alexandrs place Scituate lyeing and being in Transquakeing River
                 on the East Side of Chesepeake bay & on the westermost side of the
                 northwest branch of the said River & being Now in dispute between
                 the said Roger Eades & James Peterkin, And the Court finding it
                 very necessary that the due Lines & bounds of the said parcell of
                 Land be Laid out by Some Skilfull person according to the Orrigi
                 nall Survey thereof by the Direction of the Neighbourhood that
         p. 576  are most Knowing in the antient Meetes and bounds thereof And
                 a faire plott & Certifficate thereof be Returned to the next Provin
                 ciall Court soe that upon pusall & Veiwing thereof and hearing
                 what can be Said on both sides the Court may doe therein what to
                 Justice shall appertaine Itt is therefore by the Court this Day Ordered
                 that Thomas Pattison gentl Deputy Surveyor be & is hereby Espe
                 cially appointed Impowered and comanded to Lay out the aforesaid
                 peell of Land according to the Antient meetes and bounds thereof
                 in the presence of the Sheriffe of Dorchester County aforesaid wch
                 sd sheriffe is hereby Impowered and Comanded to sumon and Tm
                 pannell a Jury of twelve good Lawfull and honest men of the Neigh
                 bourhood to goe upon the said land And to Sumon and examine