The Certificate 9th October, 1639¾Sett forth for Mr. Giles Brent, Esq. a portion of Town Land lying nearest together about the Smith's Forge lately built by the said Giles Brent, whereof the north bound beginning at a mark't tree on the top of the hill on the souther side of a Swamp called the Key Swamp and running by a straight east line above the head of the said Swamp is laid out for one hundred and five perches, the east side beginning at the end of the said hundred and five perches and running through the forest by a strait south line is laid out for one hundred and ten perches, the south side beginning at the end of the said hundred and ten perches, and running by a right line west north west (or near that point) to the corner of a close now hedged in by the said Giles Brent, and along that hedge to the bank of St. Georges River, is laid out for one hundred and ten perches, and the west side along the bank of St. George's River to the aforesaid marked tree is laid out for eighty perches or thereabouts, so that the whole area thereof containeth to the quantity of sixty three acres or thereabouts."                                     (l) JOHN LEWGER, Surveyor.     The Patent follows, reciting the rights as set forth in the demand, and granting the land for sixty and some odd acres of English measure be it more or less. The bounds are described in substance agreeably to the Certificate, but not totidem verbis and the form is abreviated as in many other cases, for which reason it is not here inserted. ¾         MR. SURVEYOR,     I would have you to set forth thirty acres of Land in a neck lying next to the east side of St. Andrews Creek, and to draw a Patent for it to William Lewis in freehold for the yearly rent of a barrell of corne and for soe doing this shall be your Warrant.                                 Signed, LEONARD CALVERT.     4th December, 1639.¾Laid out for Mr. William Lewis one neck of land lying upon the northern side of St. Inigoes Creek and bounding on the west with St. Andrew's Creek; on the east with the freehold of St. Maries Hill, and on the north with the town land of Robert Clerk as it is distinguished by marked trees containing thirty acres or thereabouts.                                             JOHN LEWGER.     7th January 1639.¾I would have you to lay out for Giles Brent Gent. Treasurer of the Council of this Province one     (l) It wou1d seem that he was both Secretary and Surveyor. Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.