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750 Tract of Land who being sworne upon the holy Evangelist Concerning his knowledge of the premises saith as followeth The Deposition of Col Ninian Beale Col Ninian Beale aged about Eighty six Years being Sworne as above sayeth that the Tract of Land formerly laid out by him when Surv.r for Francis Swinsen called the Free School farme then lying in Prince Geo Calvert County but now in this County and on the West Side of the Westerne Branch of Putuxent River Joynes the West End of a Tract of land belonging to Alexander Magruder & begunn at a Marked oak being the South West Corner Tree of the Said Alex.r Magruders Land and in the Line of M.r Robert Carvills Land which oake being downe and seeming to lye burnt near the place a Ceeder post with sixteen Notches was now sett downe near the place where twas supposed to stand and Running with the said Line West three hundred and Twenty perches in Length to a Marked oak in the Same Line of M.r Robert Carvills Land which being downe lakewase a Spanish Oak was not marked with Twelve knotches and then Running North one hundred Twenty five perches in breadth to a Marked oak in the Line of Osbornes Land which not being found a Spanish oak was now Marked with Eight knotches and then running East three hundred & Twenty perches in Length to a Marked Hiccory in the Line of Alexander Magruders Land afd which being downe a Hiccory was ^now^ Marked with six Notches and Running from thence with a streight Lyne to the said Ceeder post at the beginning Containing two hundred and fifty acres more or less according to the said Bells former Certificate at his laying out of the said Land and further he saith not Jurat die mese annoq supredit coram me Patrick Hepburne (S) The same day this Tract of Land was surveyed and bounded as above by Cap.t Archbald Edmondson according to the Certificate and Depo.n of the aboves.d Col Ninian Beale in the presence of the said Col Ninian Beale M.r Samuel Magruder M.r William Head M.r Charles Allen Charles Drury & four Young Boys Viz James Edmondson Bigger Head Thomas Clagett Jun.r & Rich.d Clagett Jun.r Besides Cap.t Cap.t Thomas Clagett and Doct.r Patrick Hepburn Comission.rs appointed for Examining Evidences about it the Truth of |
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