Locust Thickett

By virtue of a warrant of his Lord ppl

Office unto William Ward Cecil County planter for eight hundred acres of land bear ---- the 13th day of November in the 3rd year of Dom of the Char----- Annoy Dom 1678. They are humbly to certify that I Edward Jones Dept. Sur. Under Baker Brooke Esq. Sur. Senr. : * have laid out for the said with Ward a parcel of land called Locust Thicket, lying on the Eastern side of Elke River in Cecil County beginning at a marked white oak standing by a valley at the head of a branch which comes out of a creek called Capt. John’s Creek being a south westerly bounded tree of a parcel of land called Friendship before laid out for George Holland & Joseph Spernon and from thence bounded on the northwest with the land of the orphans of Robert Morgan by a line drawn southwest by south one hundred and fifty perches to a branch of the said Creek called Goldsmith’s Branch and from thence bounded with the said branch by a line drawn southeast by south twenty perches to a marked red oak standing by the branch side being the first bound over to a parcel of land called Forke formerly laid out for Thomas Maddocks & Charles Vincent but since purchased by Thomas Shelton and from the said red oak bounded with the said land by a line drawn East by North one hundred perches to a marked red oak and from the said red oak bounded with the said land at a line drawn south by east three hundred and twenty perches and from the end of the south by east line by a line drawn south east sixty perches, from the end of the south east line by a line drawn north east four hundred fifty five perches and it intersect the said land called Friendship and from thence bounded with the said land by a straight line to the south (?) bounded white oak four hundred and eighty perches running (?) and now laid out for five hundred acres of land --- to be – of the Mannor of Caecil.

Signed by Jones

Deputy Surveyor

Questions:

1. Why does it say 800 acres and then 500 acres?

2. What is the location on a map?

Patent Record IC F, p. 56

Date: 1791

Description: Locust Thicket, 104 1/2 Acres; Certificate

Developer/Owner: Williams, Basil 

Locust Thickett, John Cameron, 104 1/2 Acres 1791/11/2 Patented Certificate 567 5 0 MSA S 1194-583

Locust Thicket, 104 1/2 Acres; Certificate

Developer/Owner: Williams, Basil 1791 Patent Record IC F, p. 566 0 0 MSA S 1586-1930

Locust Thicket, 104 1/2 Acres; Patent

Developer/Owner: Cammerson, John 1791 Patent Record IC G, p. 106 0 0 MSA S 1586-1931

Locust Thicket, John Ward, 510 Acres 1725/08/28 Unpatented Certificate 195 3 0 MSA S 1217-211

Locust Thicket, 510 Acres; Unpatented Certificate

Developer/Owner: Ward, John 1725 Unpatented Certificate 195 0 0 MSA S 1586-1927

Locust Thickett, 500 Acres; Certificate

Developer/Owner: Ward, William 1687 Patent Record 21, p. 131 0 0 MSA S 1586-1928

Locust Thickett, 500 Acres; Patent

Developer/Owner: Ward, William 1687 Patent Record NS B, p. 499 0 0 MSA S 1586-1929

Locust Thickett, William Ward, 500 Acres 1687 Patented Certificate 567A 2 0 MSA S 1194-584

Locust Thickett, John Cameron, 104 1/2 Acres 1791/11/2 Patented Certificate 567 5 0 MSA S 1194-583

Locust Thickett, William Ward, 500 Acres 1687 Patented Certificate 567A 2 0 MSA S 1194-584

Locust Thickett, 500 Acres; Certificate

Developer/Owner: Ward, William 1687 Patent Record 21, p. 131 0 0 MSA S 1586-1928

Locust Thickett, 500 Acres; Patent

Developer/Owner: Ward, William 1687 Patent Record NS B, p. 499 0 0 MSA S 1586-1929