MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 22g

5^th whether by the Evidence of Hobbs there are not Diverse Courses
more Especially one of ab^l 300 perches more then the patent of Amptill
Grange Expresses as a Consequence of the Said Hobbs his Evidence.

1^st Answer he Cant tell but he believes it was by a warrent of resurvey
out of the provinciall Court.

2^d He Cant tell.

3^d He believes from the tree to the pacoson [sic] may be about forty
perches but into the River above Sixty leaving the Course of the patent.

4^CU he asked the Same Question of Rob^t Hobbs who answerd that
Bottler the Surveyor told the Said Hobbs he beleived the Course Mentioned
in the Certificate would Soon Strike the river.

5^th He Knows nothing of it not being present at the first Survey of
Amptill Grange otherwise then what he heard at the Resurvey.

Rob^t Tyler

[357] Prince Georges County
September the 2O^th 1718

The above are the Severall Answers to the foregoing Interogatories by
Rob⁽ Tyler Gent, upon his Corporall oath by us duely administred to him
Given under our hands and Seals.

Thomas Clagett [S]
Patrick Hepburn [S]
James Haddock [S]

PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY ss John Pottinger Sen^r of the Said County
planter aged fifty Eight years or there abouts being Sworn upon the Holy
Evangelists that in the time of M^r Thomas Greenfield Sen^r being Sheriff of
the Said County he was Summoned upon a Jury for Resurveying a Tract of
Land Called Amptill Grange to a Certain the bounds of the Said Land and
one Tho^a Hobbs of Calvert County being brought to prove the Same upon
oath Ca[rr]ied unto the Stump of a fallen Tree where the plumb Tree now
Stands and Swore that he was with Charles Buttler then Surveyor of the
County when he ordered him to bound a white oak then Standing where that
Stump was for the last bounded tree of Essington and the first bounded tree
of Amptill Grange and Said Hobbs being asked how the Said tree Cou'd be
Said to be by the River Side at the distance he Said that at Said Buttlers de-
sire he went down to the river and Marked the trees in his way and at his
return told the Said Buttler that the river was but a little way of and Said
Buttler ordered him to bind the Said White oak as above for the given line
wou'd Soon Strike the river and at the Same time Coil. Beall Swore to the
Same Jury that Sometime before Buttler the Surveyor had told him the Said
Beall that the Said White oak was the first bounded tree of Amptill Grange
and further this dep^o Saith not. John B Pottenger