4 PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

County within the same Province And whereas the said Act of Assembly for
devision of the said County di[d] nominate Mr. Robert Mason and Mr. James
Keech for St. Maries County, Mr. John Bayne and Mr. James Biggers for
Charles County, Mr. William Hutchison and Mr. Thomas Greenfeild for
Prince Georges County:

In obedience thereunto We John Bayne, William Hutchison and Thomas
Greenfeild having met this day for the Deviding Prince Georges County from
Charles County did Call before Us Edward Battson Surveyor of Calvert County
and Joseph Manning Surveyor of Charles County, and did Cause them to beginn
the said Devision at Two bounded Red Oakes and one Spannish Oke standing
on a Stony Knowle being mark't with Thirty two notches each, and standing
nere the head of Mattawoman Mayne Branch and from thence running with
a Line of double mark't Trees South Fifty nine degrees Easterly to Three
bounded white Oakes each mark't with Thirty two Notches and standing at the
head of the Northermost mayne Branch of Swanstons Creek being nere the
Coach Roade. Which we doe Esteem and declare to be the Devisionall Lyne
[of] the said County. In testimony whereof we have hereunto Subscribefd] our
Names the 14th day of Aprill 1696:

John Bayne, William Hutchison, Thomas Greenfeil[d].

[6] The said Respective Justices of the Peace and Comissioners of Prince
Georges County having respectively taken the Oaths appointed by Act of
Parliament instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy as also the Oath
of Justice of the Peace and Subscribed the Test tooke their places according
to the Commission:

Mr. Thomas Greenfeild pursuant to his Comission having taken the Oaths
and Subscribed the Test was Sworne high Sheriff of Prince Georges County:
And William Cooper Sworn Clerk of the same and John Joyce sworne Cryer etc.

Att a Court held att Charles Towne in Prince Georges County the Three
and Twentieth of Aprill in the Eight yeare of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord
William the Third by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Irland
King Defender of the faith etc. Annoque Domini 1696: Before

Thomas Holliday, gentleman; William Hutchison, William Barton, John

White, Robert Bradley, Justices; William Tannyhill, David Small, Robert

Tyler: Justices.

A Request made by Mr. Joshua Cecill and Mr. Thomas Hughes that this
Court would be pleased to Admitt them to plead in this Court to which this
Court unanimously consented and they were sworn accordingly: Attorneyes of
the Same:

Whereas upon Complainte made to this Court by Thomas Simmons late
Servant to Thomas Kinniston that his Master had sold him for Runnaway time
and not brought him to any Court in this Province to be adjudged according
to Law. Ordered by this Court that the said Thomas Simmons be clearly and
freely acquitted from his said Service:

Ordered that this County be Devided into these following Hundreds