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Branch to a road from Nicholas Aldredge to Middle River.
Sometimes the county justices would partition a hundred into upper and lower parts when the roads became too numerous for one overseer to maintain. At the November court term of 1741 the court appointed Samuel Smith to divide West River Hundred into two "overseer precincts." Six years later he filed his return
describing the division line as starting at William Richardson's Spring Branch and then along the road to Joseph Richardson. In March 1754 the justices divided Severn Hundred into two parts from the head of the spring branch of Richard Warfield, Jr. to Elizabeth Gaither's gate at South River Road. Eighteen months later they partitioned the hundred for the Barrens by a line from the wading place over Snowdens River near Spires the Taylor to Pools Branch near Brazil Pools, then with Pools Branch to Patapsco Falls. In November 1763 Herring Creek Hundred was divided, beginning at Samuel Chew's, then along the main road, leaving John Chew's to the southward, to the Calvert County line.
In November 1752, the rector, vestrymen, and wardens of Queen Caroline Parish filed a petition to firmly establish the boundaries of the hundreds in the parish. The existing condition of uncertain boundaries led to levies not being assessed on several taxables living in those areas. Church officials, of course, were concerned since the Protestant Episcopal parishes received public funds. The petition contained suggestions for the boundaries:
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