My thanks to Michael Hait for obtaining the copies from the Archives of Maryland for Fred Carrico & Fred for sharing with me..
I have copies of the documents, but the following is Michael's summary.

LAND OFFICE (Patent Record, Original) John Dawson, certificate for “Starr Cross”, 24 Dec 1673, Liber LL, fol. 211-212, MSA SM215-13, Microfilm no. SR 7548. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland.
30 August 1672	Charles Calvert, the Lord Proprietor of Maryland, ordered one hundred acres of land laid out for one JOHN DAWSON by the Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General.
20 July 1673	JOHN DAWSON assigned all of his rights to the said warrant to one JOHN DENT of St. Mary’s County, “being the Rights of my self & Wife proved before the Governour” (wit.: JOHN ROBERTS, ROBERT GIBSON).
28 July 1673	The Lord Proprietor renewed the warrant until the following 10th of January.
9 August 1673	JOHN DENT returned the warrant, assigning all of his rights to it back to “John Dawson of St. Maryes County” (wit: RICH’D. AMBROSS, RICH. EDELIN).
24 December 1673	RICHARD EDELEN, the Deputy Surveyor, laid out for JOHN DAWSON the tract called Starr Cross, in St. Mary’s County, containing one hundred acres of land.
LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Dawson, patent for “Starr Cross”, 9 Jun 1675, Liber 18, fol. 340-341, MSA SM2-21, Microfilm no. SR 7359. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland.
9 June 1675	JOHN DAWSON “of Charles County in our said province of Maryland”, due one hundred acres of land on assignment from RICHARD EDELEN, the assignee of JOHN WARR, who was due the land for transporting Edward Taylor and Edward Foulkner, received the patent for Starr Cross, lying in St. Mary’s County, containing one hundred acres of land. This land was subject to an annual rent of four shillings sterling in silver or gold, payable in two payments due on the two great feasts, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, and the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.
LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Dawson, certificate for “Presteen”, 7 Mar 1682, Liber 21, fol. 487, MSA SM2-24, Microfilm no. SR 7362. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland.
7 March 1682	RICHARD EDELIN, the Deputy Surveyor, laid out for JOHN DAWSON sixty acres of land, the tract called Presteen [sic], being the assigned part of a larger warrant due to RICHARD EDELIN, dated 17 January 1682. The courses of the survey state that Preston shared a border with Starr Cross.
LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Dawson, patent for “Preston”, 10 Sep 1683, Liber CB 3, fol. 413-415, MSA SM2-29, Microfilm no. SR 7367. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland.
September 1683	JOHN DAWSON of St. Mary’s County, due sixty acres on assignment from RICHARD EDELIN, part of a warrant for 435 acres granted to EDELIN on 17 January 1683, received the patent for Preston. The land was subject to an annual rent of two shillings five pence sterling in silver or gold, payable in two payments due on the two great feasts, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, and the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.
In a deed dated 9 March 1707/8, PETER CARRICOE sold to WALTER STOREY, “that tract or parcell of land scituate lying & being in Cha. Co’ty Called Preston beginning att a bounded white oake a bound tree of John Dawsons and called Starr Cross. How PETER CARRICO came into possession of Preston unfortunately remains a mystery.