The issue before the Court was whether an order, written in 1719 by James Steel, the Receiver General and Secretary of the Land Office, addressed to Isaac Taylor, the Surveyor General's Deputy in Chester County, stating that James Logan, one of three Proprietors or Commissioners of Land in the Pennsylvania Territory had granted 500 acres of land to William Willis, and directing that Willis's land be surveyed so a warrant could be issued, was admissible as evidence of title.