Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     355

     And to Sumon & examine witnesses upon Oath (If occasion be)             Liber W.C.
     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
     natural bounds thereof And Secondly 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 and Twentyeth day of Scptember
     next Attested aswell 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 premisses may doe therein
     as to Justice shall appertaine
        said Provinciall Court which on the said Six and twentyeth
     day of september was to be held as aforesaid was by his Lopps
     writ of Adjournment adjourned untill the Tenth day of October
     then next following
       On wch said Tenth day of October came the said partyes by their
     Attorneys aforesaid And the said Richard Peacock the Deputy sur
     veyor aforesaid made returne of the Cornission of resurvey afore
     said by a Certaine Inquisition thereunto annexed under his hand
     and seale and under the hands and Seales of the sheriffe of the
     County aforesaid and of a Jury by him the said sheriffe for that
     purpose sumoned Impannelled and Sworne wch Inquisition is as
     followeth. Viz
        To the Right honoble the Lord Propry Septemb 15th 1682
     Talbott ss.
       By vertue of an Order of the Provinciall Court bearing date the
     sixth day of May last: Especially Empowering and Comanding me
     to lay out and resurvey a parcell of land called Marron, and to
     run out the lynes and Courses thereof in the prsence of the sheriffe
     of this County and of twelve Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood
     to be by him the said Sheriffe Impannelled and Sworne for the
     Execution of the said precept I Richard Peacock Deputy surveyor
     of Talbott County aforesaid Doe humbly certify that in obedience
     to the aforesaid Order In the presence of the sheriffe of Talbot
     County aforesaid and of Twelve good and Law full men of the
     neighbourhood by him Impannelled and sworne as aforesaid I have
     layd out and resurveyed the aforesaid parcell of land Called Marron
     Lyeing in Talbot County aforesaid Adjoyning to a parcell of land
     called Morgans St Michaels Begining at a bounded oake lyeing
     upon the bank by the side of st Michaels River and runing thence
     East and by south with the lyne of the aforesaid land called Morgans
     st Michaels one hundred forty and two perches to a Creeke called
     Champes Creeke, And then downe the west side and with the lynes