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      Witnesses upon Oath that the truth of the Matter may be fully dis-      Liber W. C.
      covered, And the said Thomas Pattison is hereby Ordered to runn
      the lines according to the Evidences then to be given and the direc
      tons of the Jury: and to Returne a Certificate of his Proceedings
      herein & a faire plott of the Land in Question to the next Provin
      ciall Court to be held at the Citty of St Maryes the Six and twentieth
      day of Aprill then next Ensueing that soe his Lopps Justices being
      fully Informed of the truth of the premisses may doe therein as
      to Justice shall appertaine
        On wch said Six and Twentyeth day of Aprill aforesaid Came
      the said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid & returne was made
      of the Order aforesaid for the survey of the Land aforesaid by an
      Inquisition thereunto annexed under the hands & Seales of a Jury
      for that purpose Sumoned Impanneled & Sworne wch Inquisition
      followeth in these words:
      Maryland ss:
        By vertue of an Order from the Right honoble his Lopps Prop
      vinciall Court bearing date the twenty Second day of ffebruary
      1680 whereby wee were Impannelled & Sworne by the oheriffe to
      goe with Thomas Pattison Deputy Surveyor for the County of
      Dorchester in the Company and presence of the sheriffe to lay out
      One Messuage & six hundred and fifty Acres of land Called Alex
      anders place belonging unto Capt Anthony Dawson & Rebecca his
      wife, Thomas Walker & Sarah his wife according to the Antient
      meets and bounds and Evidence Wee of the Jury doe finde that
      the Resurvey made formerly by the said Thomas Pattison Deputy
      surveyor by vertue of a Warrant of resurvey to him directed and
      granted out of his Lopps Office for lands bearing date the Two and
      twentyeth day of ffebruary 1680 unto the said Anthony Dawson
      and Rebecca his wife Thomas Walker and Sarah his wife doth
      most exactly agree in the Courses & distances as wee found by those
      lines of marked trees then marked as wee now did runn out the
      Same, And wee doe likewise find that by the north and by west
      line wee Runn up the River that all the houses of James Peterkin
      are without the same, And wee Doe also find by Sufficient Evidence
      that neare the head or at the head of a Small Creeke Called by the
      Neighbourhood Scotland Creeke runing through a Marsh out of
      Transquakeing River is Wrights Swampe and the bounds of the
      abovesaid Lands: att the begining of a line of marked trees where
      beginns the west & by south line of the abovesaid land, And wee doe
      likewise find that [Runing] the West and by south line into the        p. 577
      woods All the houses except one Tobacco house on Major Thomas
      Taylors Plantacon where Richard Adams now liveth in the woods
      is within the bounds and lines of the abovesaid land To all the
      above premisses wee have hereunto Sett out hands and seales the