570 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Opened the Door of an Inner Room in w^cn was the DeP Brewerton and
Carried this Depont and M^r Sam^l Handy with two or three other persons into
itt and the Door was Again Shutt but by Whom this Dep^t doth not know and
then the Def^t Adams presented a Deed to him the Said Brewerton and told
him that it was the Deed he had perused before and the Said Brewerton Said
it was So and he was Satisfyed w^th it and the Said Brewerton and his wife
Signed Sealed and Executed itt as the Act of Assembly in such Case made
Directs w^thout reading it it being troublsome to read the roome was So dark.

Jn^o Handy Jos. Pemberton Levin Gale.

William Alexander of Stepney Parish in Somerset! County Planter Aged
50 years or thereabouts Sworn and Examined on the part of the Complainant
Saith as follows Viz^t.

That at the request of the Compl^t the Dep^t went with the Compl^t to the
Plantation of W^m Brewerton and that the S^d Brewerton went with them and
the Marked a tree for a Corner tree of the Land w^cn the Compl^t was to have
of him the S^a Brewerton near the Wading Place from whence they run out
a p^s. [sic] of a Line but were prevented from proceeding any further by Night
Coming on he further Saith that he hath often heard the Def^t Brewerton Say
that no other person in Maryland Should have his Land but the Compl^t and
further Saith not.

Jos. Pemberton Levin Gale Jn^o Handy

W^m Hammond of Somersett County Planter Aged 50 years or there-
abouts Sworn and Examined on the part of the Compl^t Saith as follows Viz^t.

That W^m Brewerton the Def^t hath often told the Deponent that the Sec-
ond Conveyance to the Def^t Adams was for to deprive the Comp" from being
benefitted by his Execution and that the Def^t Adams was to reconvey it and
that he hath heard the Said Adams Say he would reconvey it when Capt"
John Jones and John Roach Should Value Sixty Acres that the Def^t Adams
had bought of the S^a Brewerton and further Saith not.

Jos. Pembcitoii Levin Gale

[764] Georgee Goddard of Somersett County Cooper Aged 38 years Sworn
and Examined on the part of the Compl^t Saith as follows Viz^t.

That at the request of the Compl^t he went w^th him and W^m Alexander
to the House of the Def^t Brewerton and from thence w^th Brewerton and the
persons af^d went and marked a tree near the old Wading place of Pasandike
being Near the S^d Brewertons fence w^oh this Depon' Supposes was Intended
to be a Corner Tree of Land disigned by W^m Brewerton to be Sold the
Compl^t and from thence they run p⁸ of a Line and resolved to make an end
Some time afterw^d This Depon^t further Saith that the Compl^t Desired the
trees might be markt as they run but Brewerton was not willing to have it
Done till he Saw how the Line would run

Jo^s Pemberton Levin Gale Jn^o Handy.