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652) Mary Camper aged about thirty six yeares maketh oath that the being well acquainted with Catherine Catterton who dwelt at Oxford in and upon the Lots and houses now in the possession of M.r Robert Grundy (and the same that the Comp.lts claime heard the afores.d Catterton say that Jane the now wife of William Southes was John Garnishes Brothers Williams Child and further saith that a certaine Sarah Bowher in her life time ( but then sick on her death bedd) being asked by the said Mary who would be heire to those houses and Lotts she resided in after the Decease of her son in Law named Henry Moon for says this Dep.t it will fall to the King M.r Bowher answered no for that there was in the Contry John Garnishes Brother Child named Jane Garnish who was the right heir to the said Lott and pleages ^Tenements^ in Oxford upon which the s.d Sarah then resided being the same now in the Possession of M.r Robert Grandy and that she this Dep.t might well remember that the said Jane Garnish with others being there before) was blemished in one Eye and was the same person (as M.r Catterton told her Sworne before us R Unger + John Bullen + John Ryan of Dorchester County Planter aged about forty Eight Yeares maketh oath that being a Book keeper for Catherine Catterton and being intemately acquainted with her he whilst he soe dwelt with her asked her about her reall and personall Estate in Oxford in Maryland and now in the posson of Robert Grundy who Answered this Dep.t y.t there was one Jane Garnish who at that time dwelt in Dorchester County and that her former Husband named Garnish had fully sattisfied her that she was nearly satisfied allyed by Blood to him and y.t her said husband desired upon his Death Bedd the said Jane being his Brothers Daughter that she the said Catherine would use all manner of Civil treatment towards her the said said Comp.lt and the s.d John further saith y.t the said Catherine did say to him the said Dep.t that she was soe well sattisfied by her first husbands relacons and Account of the same Jane Garnish being Allyed as afores.d that |
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