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	718) D.^r Lock & Anthony Smith Dep.^s ab.^t Pagett By Virtue of a Comission to us Directed Bearing Date the 30.^th day Aprill Annoq Dm 1711 Commanding ^us^ to take the following Dep.^os & Test Viz.^t Ann Arundell County fs May 22.^d 1711 Job Evans Aged about fifty five Years being a Quaker taketh his Test and Declared Viz.^t That about Twenty Eight Years agoe he and his wife being severall times in Company Oystering and Fishing with W.^m Sivick in Herring Creek and one time Wee putt on shore for shelter between two points where stood two white oakes which the afd Sivick did say that there was the Extent of his Land and the Dividing Line Between Paggetts Land and the said Sivick and that his Land Rann no farther but Up the Creek afd which is the spott of Land ^that^ D.^r Lock & M.^r Anthony Smith Lays their pretentions unto Taken before us Richard Jones Jun.^r (S) Josias Towgood (S) Robert Orm Aged about sixty years being sworne Deposeth Viz.^t That about Twenty Nine or thirty years agoe he being at Herring Creek in Company with William Sivick Sen.^r on the Land Called Pascalls Purchase then in the Tenure of the Said Sivick and being by the Water Side the Said Sivick Said Robert Orm You are a Young man and I an old man there may hereafter be a Difference Between us or our Children I desire you to take Notice and said this is the [illegible] Tree Divideing Line Between Trundle & me and took a hatchett which he had in his Leather Apron & Choped some Chops on a Saplin for that the originall bounds were gone (it being the spott where D.^r Lock and M.^r Smith now lays their pretentions) And further the said Sivick told this Dep.^o that Trundle and I had Agreed to putt up a post at the said place and afterward the Said Depon.^t heard Trundle often times a form the same Sworne before us Rich.^d Jones Jun.^r (S) Josias Towgood (S)

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