A second resurvey ordered upon complaint that the first was
erroneous.
MARYLAND , ss.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERALL.
" Whereas I did by especiall warrant under my hand and
lesser seal of this province, bearing date the 21st day of
April last past, command and require you or your deputy to
resurvey and lay out for Henry Cox of the county of Calvert,
planter, three hundred acres of land called Lyons Creek, lying
in the said county, according to the ancient bounds thereof,
and that you should summon some of the ancient inhabitants
of the said county to be present when the same should be
resurveyed, and by their evidence thoroughly inform yourself of
the ancient bounds of the said land and return a certificate of
such resurvey into the secretary's office; and in obedience to
the said speciall warrant, Charles Boteler, gent. deputy
surveyor for the said county of Calvert, hath returned into the said
office a certificate of the said lands bounds, dated the 27th
of June last past and by him surveyed in the presence of
Richard Hall, George Lingam and Paull Busy, good and lawfull
men of the said county, and underneath the said certificate
the said Richard Hall, George Lingam and Paul Busey have
certified under their hands that the said Charles Boteler's
certificate of resurvey is according to the ancient bounds of the
said land, but for that complaint hath been made unto me by
James Thompson who hath since purchased the said land, that
the same is not resurveyed according to the ancient bounds
thereof as he is able to make appear by the oaths of severall
persons inhabitants of the said county, that were present at the first
survey of the same, and being willing to have the truth of the
premisses discovered and a true certificate of the same
returned, have empowered and commanded Tobias Norton, gent.
one of the commissioners of the said county of Calvert, to be
with you at such time as you shall give him notice, upon the
said land, and to administer an oath to such persons as shall
be by the said James Thompson produced to give evidence
which were the ancient bounds of the same: ¾
Resurvey and lay out therefore for the said Henry Cox, the
said parcell of land according to the ancient bounds thereof,
and according to such evidence and directions as shall be
given unto you by the said witnesses, upon oath sworn before
the said Tobias Norton, as aforesaid; PROVIDED the lines of
the said land do not run into other men's lines surveyed
before the first survey of the said land, nor into any land
before that time reserved for his lordship's use; and return
your certificate of resurvey, the evidence of the witnesses
sworn as aforesaid, with the name of the place, in what county
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