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766 side of the Road Main Road that comes downe Patuxent from M.r Richard Marshams and on the south side of the path that cometh from Maddam Whites to M.r Thomas Gants Quarter M.r Luke Gardiner aged thirty one Years or thereabouts made oath & being Interrogated what he heard John Browne say in relation to a bounded Tree of M.r Gants Answerth that to the best of his Remembrance the said Browne sett his foot down to the North or rather North west side of the said stump and afirmed that there stood a bounded Hickory of M.r Gants Land Land and that ^when^ the Hickory & the oake of the abovesaid stump was standing he could not without dificulty goe Between them And being asked by this Deponent how he know it to be the bounded Tree of M.r Gants Land he Ans.rd that old M.r Gant shewed it and told him it was the bounder & furth.r saith not Also at the same time and place came M.r John Smith of Charles County Aged Seventy three Years or thereabouts and made oath upon the holy Evangelist being asked what he knew in relation to the bounds of M.r Gants Land Answered that being at the Resurvey of the said Land about Twenty five or Twenty six years agone in Company with M.r Gant and M.r Marsham and Maj.r Beale the Survey.r Especially appointed That the Resurvey was begunn at a stump of Hickory standing by the stump above mentioned which stump was then ^a^ standing live tree and is the same Black Stump mentioned in the oath above mentioned so near to which the afd bounded Hickory stood that a horse could scarce pass Between which Hickory stump was by M.r Marsham & Gant acknowledged and allowed for a bounder of Gants Land & further saith not Alsoe John Rook aged forty Seven Years or thereabouts (at the place by M.r Luke Gardiners Oath) first above mentioned made oath on the holy Evangelist that he the Said Rook being serv.t to the Said Gant and Walkin with his said Master the very day of the Resurvey mentioned in John Smiths oath his said Master told him that that Hickory stump standing by the white Black stump afd in M.r Gardiners (Oath |
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