COURT RECORDS

MARYLAND
CHANCERY COURT RECORDS
1712-1724

Transcribed from a copy of the original record by Nancy Pressley

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An Inquisition for

 Peter Presley
of the Colony of Virginia

Maryland 
St. Mary’s County } ss

 At the request of Peter Presley of the Colony of Virginia, Gent in the presence of the Sherrif and a Jury of the Vicinage I have laid twenty acres of Land (viz) ten Acres on each Side of the Main froth run of St. Mary’s River it being the plane where formerly Stoed a Mill belonging to Thomas Waughey of St. Mary’s County, Gent

 The ten Acres of the East Side of the Said run being part of a tract of Land now in the possession of Mr. Charles King of the Said County the Said ten Acres being thus Bounded beginning at a Spanish Oak marked with Six notches Standing on the East Side of the Said Run and running thence fifty eight degrees east forty perches North twenty Eight Degrees west (unclear, looks like :40 ps), South fifty eight degrees west fourty perches then by a Streight Line to the first Beginning

And the ten acres on the west Side of the Aforesaid Run being part of his Lordships Mill Mannor and heretofore taken up for the use of the Said Mill by the Said Thomas Waughey and bounded as follow Beginning by the Run on the west Side of the Same Opposite to the end of the Last Line of the former ten Acres and running thence South fifty Eight Degrees west forty perches then South Twenty eight degrees east (unclear, looks like: 40 ps)  then north fifty eight degrees east fourty perches then with a Streight Line to the Begining

Surveyed this 30^th day of August 1723              -me   Laurence Lant

Source:  Original document on file at the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
              State Record Microfilm# :  SR2443 (Pages1052-1053)