354        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C. runn out according to Pattent And also the Imaginary lynes and
                the true lynes of a Creeke Called Champes Creeke, Wee being
                sumoned by the sheriffe of this County upon a Jury for that pur
                pose did all appeare upon the aforesaid land the day aforesd And
                were there Sworne for the prosecution of the aforesaid precept,
                but being not satisfyed in Our Consciences of the truth of the first
                bounded tree of the aforesaid land of Marron for want of suffi
                cient Evidence to prove the same Wee found wee could not Prose
                cute the resurvey of the land aforesaid
                  Jonas Davis               (sealed)  John Thrift    (sealed)
                  Wm Cooke  (sealed)        Tho. ffalknar  (sealed)
                  Henry Costin (sealed)     Wm ffinney     (sealed)
                            Robt Noble (sealed)
                            Simon Steevens (sealed) Wm Grose (sealed)
                            Jno Hawkins     (sealed)
                  Wee whose names are underwritten being of the Jury abovesaid
                discent from the oppinion of ye rest for these reasons, 1st because
                there is noe other bounded Oake to be found betwixt that tree
                wch wee were showne and which is Supposed the first bounded
                tree of Marron, And the first bounded tree of Morgans St Michaels,
                Neither is there any other bounded oake to he found betwixt the
                tree in question and Champes Creeke, 2dly Mr Vaughan affirmes
                that William Coursey haveing beene there who first surveyed that
                land of Marron did say he beleived that ye tree in Question was
                the right bounded tree, ffurther the tree it self is about the place
                mentioned in the Pattent. And the land and the River agree to the
                Course in the pattent exprest, And none of the rest of the Jury
                beleive that the tree in question is not the Right tree, but wee
                beleive that it is the first right bounded tree of Marron
                                         Thomas Smithson   (sealed)
                                         Peter Sides(sealed)
                  And hereupon this Cause was continued untill the next Provin
                ciall Court. Att wch said next Provinciall Court (to wit) the Sixth
                day of May in the seaventh yeare of ye Dominion of the Right
                honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1682 came the
                partyes aforesaid 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 might be ordered to see the same resurveyed and laid out
                Whereupon It is by the Court here Ordered that the said Richard
                Peacock gentl bee and is hereby especially appointed empowered
                and Comanded againe to resurvey and Layout the aforesaid par
                cell of land Called Marron in the presence of the sheriffe of Talbot
                County aforesaid Wch said sheriffe is hereby also Empowered and
                Comanded to Sumon and Impannell a Jury of Twelve other good
                and Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood to goe upon the said land