MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 233

March 5^th 1716

PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY ss. Hugh Riley of the Said County Planter
aged about Sixty four years being Sworn upon the Holy Evangelists Saith that
about twenty years ago being Summoned upon a Jury of Resurvey by Rob^t
Anderson to Assert for M^r Roger Brooke the bounds of Amptill Grange the
Said Robert Anderson brought one Robert Hobbs out of Calvert County
who was with Charles Boteler the Surveyor at the first Survey of Amptill
Grange the Said Rob^t Hobbs did Swear before the Jury that he bounded
that white oak which he then brought us of the Jury) by the order [362]
of Charles Boteler for the last bounded tree of Essington and the begining
Tree of Amptill Grange but the tree being down at the time we of the Jury
Saw not the Notches and the Tree being burnt and roting we ordered that
a pear tree Should be planted in the Stump of it and the Plumb tree that
is now standing growing is in the Stump of the Same tree that the said
Hobbs Swore to before us of the Jury and the Deponent further Saith That
about twenty years agoe he saw the bounded White Oak Sworne to by M^r
Clement Hill and Abraham Clark which was bounded by order of the Jury
upon Andersons resurvey to prove the begining tree of Amptill Grange for
M^r Roger Brooke and further the Deponent Saith not Sworne before us

Tho Clagatt
Patrick Hepburn

March 5^th 1716

PRINCE GEORGE'S Co: ss: John Pottinger Sen^r planter aged about fifty
Six years being Sworne upon the holy Evangelists Saith That in the time of
M^r Tho^s Greenfield Sen^r's being Sher of the said County the Deponent was
Summoned upon a Jury for Resurveying a Tract of land called Amptill
Grange to ascertain the bounds of the said Land and one Tho^s Hobbs of
Calvert County being brought to prove the same upon his oath carried
them to the Stump of a fallen tree where the Plumb tree now Stands And
Swore that he was with Charles Boteler then Survey^r of the County when he
order'd him to bound a White Oak then standing over that Stump for the
last bounded tree of Essington and the first bounded tree of Amptill Grange
and Said Hobbs being ask'd how the Said Tree cou'd be Said to be by the
River Side at that Distance he Answer'd that at the said Botelers desire he
went down to the River and mark'd the trees in his way and at his return
told the s^t Boteler that the River was but a little way off and Said Boteler
order'd him to bind the said White oak as above for the Given line wou'd
Soon Strick the river and furthe the Deponent Saith not. Sworne before us

Tho Claggett
Patrick Hepburn