Robert Carter petitons the governor and General Court, April 19, 1706, for an injunction to prevent Maurice Jones of Wicocomoco Parish, Northumberland County, from cutting the timber, and planting crops on 50 acres in that parish belonging to Carter. A docket notes the petition was granted in part.

     That one Maurice Jones of Northumberland County in this Colony hath
wrongfully possessed himself of a certaine tract ^{or parcell} of Land in Wicocomoco
parish in the said County containing about fifty Acres in w[hich] Land
yor petitioner hath an Estate in Fee and that the said Jones hath comitted
diverse great Wastes and doth continue soe to doe upon the said Land by
falling of Timber grubbing up of Trees and howeing up ^{planting and tending} the Soile to the
great prejudice of Your Petitioner nothwithstanding Yor petitioner hath
given the said Jones ^notices not to proceed in his comitting Waste upon the said
Land and notwithstanding yor petitioner hath Endeavoured to prevent
and hinder the said Jones from comitting such Waste

     Wherefore Yor petitioner praies that This Court will
be pleased to grant her Majties writt of Injunction to
restraine him the said Jones from Comitting any farther
Waste Upon the said Land by falling Timber grubbing
Trees or howeing up the Land or otherwise