83o MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

MARYLAND ss. Charles Absolute Lord and Prop^ry of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore etc. To Maj^r Josiah Willson
Cap^t Tho^s Clegatt and Doct^r Patrick Hepburn of Prince George's County
Gent Greeting know ye that we have appointed you or any two of you our
Coin's to examine Evidences touching the Bounds of a tract of land lying in
your County called Amptill Grange two of you are therefore by vertue of this
our Commission Authorized and Impowered at Such time and place as to you
[358] or any two of you Shall Seem meet to call and cause to come before
you or any two of you all Such evidences as Shall be to you or any two of
you Nominated and produced by Thomas Wells Jun^r of the aforesaid County
Gent and that you or any two of you Examine them and every of them on
their Corporall oaths to be by you or any two of you Administred on the
Holy Evangelist touching their Knowledge and remembrance in the prem-
isses and that you or any two of you Send the Substance of their Severall
Depositions in Writing Closed under hands and Seales together with this
our Commission to us in our high Court of Chancery wth all Convenient
Speed there to be recorded in perpetuam rei memoriam Wittness our Trusty
and well beloved John Hart Esq^r Cap^t Gen^rtt and Governour in Chief of
our Province of Maryland and Territorys thereunto belonging at the City
of Annapolis the third day of Jan^ry in the second year of our Dominion in
and over the said Province etc. Anno Dom 1716

Tho Bordley Jn^o Beard Reg^r

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY ss Robert Tyler of the s^d County Gentle-
man ag'd about forty five years being Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist Sayth
That about twenty five years agoe he applyed himself to one Robert Ander-
son to shew him the bounds of a Tract of land call'd Essington who replyed
he could Shew all the bounded Trees of the said Tract which were all alive
and Standing except the last and that was either dead or dying by an Eagles
building in it which he believed had made it dye but the said Anderson went
with the Deponent to the said Tree and Shewed him a bounded tree Stand-
ing on the North Side of a Deep branch Running into Patuxent River it
being then Standing and [a] fair bounded tree with Some part of a Nest upon
it as the Said Anderson had told the Deponent and in the Stump upon w^ch
the Said Tree then Stood there is now a Plumb three growing in the room
of a Pear Tree ordered to be planted in the Said Stump by a Jury of Resurvey
brought by Said Anderson against M^r Roger Brooke and the Dep^o asking
Said Anderson how he Came by his Knowledge of the Said Tree he answer'd
Ninian Beall had Shew'd it him and told him twas the last bounded tree of
Essington but in Some time after there Happening a Dispute between the
Said Anderson and the Dep^o about a percell of Land the Dep^o had taken
then (aboute Nineteen or twenty years ago) near the last bounded tree
of Eslington the Said [359] Anderson desir'd the Dep^o to Swear one Robt
Hobbs of Calvert County touching the last bounded Tree of Essington who