MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 465

DeP Do you know by Vertue of What Warrant the af^d Lands was taken by
the Deponant Saith I know not. These Interrogatories taken before us the
Subscribers the 7^th Day of July 1718.

John Kirke [Seale]
John Lecompte [Seale]

Interrogatories to be ministred to Wittnesses to be produced on the part
and behalfe of Mary and Anne Seward Daughters of W^m Seward by Benj"
Woodward and ux^r Comp" and Thomas Hicks Def^t in a Cause Depending
in the High Court of Chancery etc. as followeth.

Imprimis. Do you know Mary and Anne Seward Daughters of William
Seward Deced and Did you know George Seward the Supposed father of W^m
Seward. This Deponent Saith that he knows Mary and Anne Seward the
reputed Daughters of W^m Seward who was the reputed Son of George Seward.
— Item. How long agoe is it Since you knew the af^d George Seward and Like-
wise do you know any thing of his Surveying or Taking up Two Tracts of
Land Lying Near the head of Chiconacomacco Called Secter and Cumber-
lake. This Deponent Saith that about forty years or thereabouts he Was
Acquainted with the af^d George Seward W^ch was the reputed Father of the
af^d W^m Seward and that this George Seward took up two Tracts of Land
Neare the head of Chiconacomaco Called Secter and Cumberlake as he was
informed [663] by Bartholomew Ennalls who Shewed him the first bounded
tree (which was a Red Oake) of the af^d Secter and Camberlake and Said that
he Shewed him the af^d Seward the Two Tracts of Lands to Take up and
further that Thomas Pattison who was then Surveyor Shewed him the Same
Tree and Said it was the first bounded tree of the af^d Tracts of Lands and
that he Surveyed the Same for the af^d Seward and that Either the af^d Ennalls
or Pattison Shewed him a Second bounded tree which he Said was the Second
bounded tree of Secter. Item. Doe you Know who att present Lines upon
the af^d Lands and is in Possession thereof. And further to these Interroga-
tions he Cannot Depose The Execution of this Comission doth appear in
Certain Schedules to this Comission Annexed. Depositions of Wittnesses
taken at the Town of Cambridge in the County of Dorchester on Wednes-
day the Twenty Eight Day of August in the year of our Lord God one Thou-
sand Seven hundred and Seventeen before Capt" Tobias Pollard John Meek-
ins and John Kirke Gent^m by Vertue of a Comission out of the High Court
of Chancery to us Directed for the Examination of Wittnesses.
Tobias Pollard [Seale] John Meekins [Seale] John Kirke [Seale]

Interrogatories to be Ministred to Wittnesses to be produced on the
part and behalfe of Mary and Anne Seward Daughters of W^m Seward by
Benj^a Woodward and ux^r Comp¹¹⁸ and Thomas Hicks Def^t in a Cause de-
pending in the High Court of Chancery etc. as followeth
Imprimis Do you know Mary and Anne Seward Daughters of W^m Seward
deced and Did you know George Seward the Supposed father of William