go MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Tredhaven Creek and although the Originall Certificate describes Severall
other little lines to run from the End of the South line and returning to the
End of the South line againe all which are drowned in the Said Creek, there-
fore from that place where the Said South line falls into Tredhaven Creek we
run a Straight line to the first bounded tree etc. Conteining two hundred and
thirty three Acres, all which Survey may more plainly appear in the Platt
thereof hereunto Annex'd: In Wittness whereof the Said Com^rs and Sur-
veyo^[rs] have hereunto Sett their hands and Seales this 28^th day of August
1697

Thomas Smithson [Seale] Jn^o Salter [Seale]

James Murphy [Seale] Solomon Wright Survey^r. [Seale]

William Alderne Lessee of Mary Royston pit ag^t Isaack Sesorson def^t

Reasons Assigned and Exhibited for the Def^ts Appeale from a Certeine
Judgm^t given ag^t him by the Justices of the Provinciall Court.

William Alderne brought Trespass and Ejectment ag^t Isaack Seserson
and declared upon a Lease made unto him by Mary Royston Widdow for
three years Commencing the first day of January 1694 of All that Plantation
or Tract of Land Called Cumberland lying on the North Side of Great Chop-
tank and betwixt Tredhaven and a Creek called Irish Creek, beginning att
a Marked Oak Standing by the Side of Irish Creek and att the End of a West
North West line of a parcell of Land Called Clays hope and running thence
with the Said Land East South East 170 Perches to a parcell of Land Called
forti Ventura and thence with the Said Land South South East 100 perches
to a parcell of Land called Covehall and then w^th the Land of Covehall South
160 perches and then with the Said Land East North East 198 perches and
then 160 perches to the first Mark tree of Covehall Standing by Tredhaven
Creek and from thence down and with the Creek to the third bounded Tree
of Covehall and then with the Said Land West North West 100 perches and
from the End of the West North West line North West and by North 375
perches to the first bounded Tree etc.

i The Provinciall Court Awarded a Warrant to resurvey the Land
Called Cumberland to Inform the Court whether the Trespass Supposed to
be done was done within the Lines and bounds in the Declaration Sett forth
or not, which Warrant was (as by the returne of the Resurvey appeareth)
[135] directed to Major Thomas Smithson Cap^t James Murphey and M^r
John Salter or to any two of them, requiring them to See the Land in the
Declaration mentioned Surveyed and to direct the Surveyor in the resur-
veying of the Same according to the Ancient meets and Bounds in the Pattent
or Deed thereof Expressed: And they Did Proceed upon the Said Survey
and they together with the Surveyor made returne thereof to the Court, And
they being in the Nature or in the Place of an Inquest of Office to have the
View of the Land and to See that resurveyed and to direct the Surveyor in
resurveying thereof and to Certifie the Court of the Trespass and which was