Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.     229

     of the County aforesaid by vertue of a speciall order Issueing out      Liber W. C.
     of the Provinciall Court Impowering and Comanding the said
     John Craycroft to Impannell a Jury for the Runing out of a
     parcell of Land Called Brooke Ridge Scituate lyeing and being on
     the south side of Petuxent River betweene Brooke Creeke & a
     Westerne branch of the Divideing Creeke Called St Charles accord
     ing to the antient bounds wch said land was layd out for One
     thousand Acres, Wee the said Jurors upon our Oathes Say that
     the three and twentyeth day of September Anno Doni 1681 Wee
     the said Jury together wth Ninian Beale Deputy Surveyor of the
     County aforesaid In the presence of the said John Craycroft came
     to an oake by the side of a branch called Charles branch And the
     said Ninian Beale then made oath that by information of Mr Charles
     Brooke he did verily beleive that that was the bound tree of the
     said land called Brooke Ridge ffrom wch tree wee the said Jurors
     together wth the said Deputy surveyor & John Craycroft runn
     Out the said One thousand Acres of land according to the meets
     & bounds in the Certificate mentioned Allowing (by the infor
     macon of the Deputy Surveyr that soe it ought to be) after the
     rate of tenn perches in every hundred perches, Within wth lines
     Soe runn out Wee found a plantacon with One Dwelling houses
     and seaverall out houses in the posession of William Grant In
     witnesse whereof as well the said Coroner as wee the Said Jurors
     have hereunto sett our hands and seales the foure and Twentyeth
     day of September Annoq Doni 1681
     Jno Craycroft: Corr sealed
        Thomas Gant(sealed) James Nuthall    (sealed)
        John Chittam(sealed)       William Grant  (sealed)
        John Smith(sealed)  Thomas Holliday  (sealed)
        Thomas Ellis(sealed)      John Carpenter  (sealed)
        William Jones       (sealed)John Browne   (sealed)
        Samll Magrowder     (sealed)Thomas Stafford    (sealed)
       And the said Ninian Beale Deputy Surveyor Returned also to
     the Court here a Certificate under his hand and seal of the bounds
     of the said One thousand Acres of land by him surveyed & layd out
     by the directions of the Jurors aforesaid wch Certifficate is as fol
     loweth (Viz)
       By vertue of an Order from the Rtt honoble the Lord Propry
     and the honoble Council bearing date the Second day of May last
     past for to Resurvey a thousand Acres of land Called Brooke
     Ridge lyeing in Calvert County on the south side of Petuxent River
     betweene Brooke Creeke and a Western branch of the divideing
     Creek Called St Charles Branch I Ninian Beale Deputy Surveyr undr p.
     Vincent Lowe Esqr. surveyr generll have in the prsence of John Cray-
     croft gentl Coroner of Calvert County aforesaid Layd out according
     to comand all that tract or parcell of land Called Brooke Ridge Lyeing