3i6 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

teen hundred Sixty five and bounded as follows (Viz^t) Beginning at a
bounded hicory Tree standing by the side of a bank by the river side near
a Valley running from the said hiccory for breadth up the River four hun-
dred and thirty perches to a marked white Oak standing on a bank by a
Creek called harbour Creek crossing the said Creek by a line drawn North
East to a marked red Oak standing by a red bank twenty Perches running
from the said Oak up the said River Easterly one hundred Perches to a
marked white Oak standing on a high bank by the westermost side of a
small Cove Bounded on the said Oak by a line drawn North and by East
for length into the woods three hundred and twenty Perches bounded on
the North and by East by a Line drawn West two hundred and fifty Perches
bounded on the west by a line drawn South and by west to the marked
hiccory together with the said River Containing and laid out for five hun-
dred Acres more or less which five hundred Acres was become the right of
the said Nathaniel the Minor That the said John Hynson had improved the
said Land That your Pef after the Death of the said John Hynson had ap-
plyed himself to the R^t Hon^ble the Lord prop^rys Agent for Land affairs and
by his Petition Sett forth that one Jean Martinson a foreigner being a Sweed
by Nation upon the twenty fourth of September Sixteen hundred Sixty one
had Surveyed and lay'd out for her a parcell of Land in the said County
Called Martinson Containing fifty Acres [483] but no Leters Patents having
Issued thereon and the said Martinson dying an Alien and without Issue
Your Petitioner pray'd the preemption thereof as being most Convenient to
him and he being the first discoverer which in Consideration thereof and
five pounds tenn Shillings Sterling was allowed him and that thereupon and
upon other false Suggestions That the said fifty acres of Land was not Culti-
vated nor improved by any Person That your Petitioner being a person of
figure obtained a pattent of the Escheat and thereupon brought an Eject-
ment against one Benjamin Pierce tennant in Possession of the said Land
That the said Benjamin upon enquiry found that the said fifty acres were
included in the Land Called the Worlds End and about the middle thereof
upon which were all or the greatest part of the improvements made by the
said John Hynson for the whole five hundred Acres Called the worlds End
that thereupon the said fifty Acres being the Elder Survey Your Pef hoped
to make himself Master of the Improvements which the said John Hynson
had made on the s^d fifty acres instead of his and thereby oblige the said Ben-
jamin Pierce and his wife or the said Minor to Purchase the said fifty Acres
at the full value of the improvements thereon made or other extravagant
rate or Else to Sell the said five hundred Acres to him for little or nothing
because of the afs^d Incumbrance That after the decease of the said Mary
Nathaniel Hynson being Chosen Gaurdian by the said Minor and inspect-
ing the Land Records found nothing relateing to the fifty Acres but a bare
Certificate without any Warrant to Support or Patent to Confirm it and un-