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761 Then the Compl.t not allowing that a Line Drawne East as the originall Certificate Expres's would ever come near the head of the Branch called & proved to be Parkers Branch but that the said Branch Lyes a Considerable way to the Westward of the South Course Quite the Contrary way to the words of the Originall Certificate he therefore Ordered me to close and Conclude this survey by a Streight Line to the first beginning as by the platt in the Black Lynes appears containing one hundred forty and six acres And further according to the pretentions of the Compl.t in presence of the Defend.t I have Resurveyed and laid out the Tract of Land caled Gadhill Beginning at a white oak standing on the south side of Parkers Branch described in the platt at E from thence Instead of Runing West one hundred perchs I runn west Sixty Eight Perches to the stump of a Tree proved by the oath of Thomas Knighton to be the stump of one Ancient bounded Tree which he allways beleived to be the second bounded Tree of Gadhill described in the platt at F Thence I runn North one hundred & Thirteen Pches to the Line of Mash seat described in the plott at G Thence Instead of Running East by the direction of the Compl.t I runn East and by South to the line of Marshes Seat to Herring Creek described in the platt at A for the Beginning of Marshes Seat thence with a Streight Line to the first bounded Tree as by the Black Lines in the platt appears Containing Ninety Seven Acres and secondly I have also according to the pretentions of the Defend.t in presence of the Compl.t Resurveyed and Laid out the Tract of Land called Marshes Seat Beginning at the same spott where the Compl.t Began described in the platt at A and Runn North Seventy five Perches to the second bounded Tree described in the platt at B thence west by North three hundred and Twenty perches to the same place the Compl.t runns to described in the platt at D C Thence seventy five perches south to the same place the Compl.t Runn to described in the platt at D Thence according to the words of the originall Cert I runn East to a Small Branch which Issues out of the main Branch called Parkers Branch which the Defend.t alledges is that head of Parkers Branch mentioned in his originall Certificate and which has be allowed so to be by a Jury (upon the spott) for ascertaining the Bounds of Lands durein the Force (of |
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