" Jesse Wharton and Henry Adams appointed by the Governor to summon and examine such persons as well Indians as English as may be able to give testimony concerning the ancient reputed bounds of the Indian lands Pangaya and Zachaia, which had been surveyed and erected into Manors for the Proprietary and by which surveys " divers persons pretend themselves to be much injured." &c.         LIBER No. 17, folio 572. —     " Order of the Proprietary (then in Maryland) for a Patent to Ephraim George Herman of a Manor on the Delaware called Augustine Manor the bounds of which are described in the said order—to be held by the yearly rent of Eight pounds sterling " for the whole tract, let it contain what number or quantity of acres soever."         LIBER W. C, No. 4. —     " In the behalf of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary of this Province you are hereby required to reserve for his Lordship's use the quantity of fifteen thousand acres of land if the same can be found together in one entire tract, otherwise no less than ten thousand acres, adjoining to a tract of twenty thousand acres lately surveyed for Charles Carrol Esq. in Prince Georges County, the same to be laid between such metes and bounds as may be most profitable to his Lordship and return your Certificate of Survey thereof into his Lordship's Land Office with all convenient speed, thence to be transmitted to the Examiner General for due examination and for your so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given under his Lordship's lesser seal at armes this eighth day of May Annoque Domi. 1718.     " To his Lordship's Surveyor of         Prince Georges County, These."         LIBER B. B. folio 81. —     October 21st, 1727. " His Lordship being resolved " to re-survey his Manors in Somerset County lying on " Nanticoke River and on the head of Wiecomico River, " Reserve is therefore hereby made on all the contiguous " vacant land to the said Manors of which you are to take " due notice so as you are not to execute any Warrant " whatsoever that may any ways affect such Manors or any of the " lands heretofore reputed to be the same.     " To the Surveyor General of the Eastern         " Shore or his Deputy of Somerset         " County."         LIBER D. D. folio 227.