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113. and on the south side of the head of said Cove and close to which Post is now fixed a stone whereon are graven these Words "Here Stood W.m Fullers Red Oak" (the aforesaid post being referred to in a Patent that was in the Year seventeen hundred and Six granted for a Tract of Land called Homewoods Purchase and also in the Patent that was granted in seventeen hundred and thirty five for a tract Called Homewoods Lott into which last mentioned Tract the Tract called Homewoods Purchase was resurveyed) then running from the Said Post or stone Markt as aforesaid with Fullers Land the two following Courses Viz North West sixty five Perches and south West seventy six Perches to a little Marsh thence on the Marsh south Eighty two degrees West to the side of a Creek called Homewoods Creek Then up and with the said Creek as the Creek runneth and with the Water Edge thereof to a stone whereof are graven these Words "The Division Boundy Between HS and IH 1763 now fixed on the East Side of a Cove that lies to the South Eastward of the Brick Dwelling House where Charles Homewood did live and in a bite almost at the head at said Cove the Middle of the House that fronts the Water bears from the said stone North Twenty seven degrees forty five Minutes West Then running from the said stone a Cross Homewoods Lott with a Line drawn North twenty five degrees East Three hundred and seventy three Perches to another Locust Post Bounded w.th four Notches and markt 1734 heretofore Planted in the very spot where the Original markt Chesnut mentioned in the Patent that was granted for Homewoods Lot in sixteen hundred and sixty three and Referred to in the Patent granted seventeen hundred and thirty five did stand and Close to which said Post standing near the Head of a Branch of Magotty Creek there is now fixed a Stone whereon are graven these Words "The End of HS and IH dividg Line also a Boundary of Homewoods Lott" then from the said Locust Post so markt with four Notches or last mentioned Stone running South Seventy six degrees East Seventy Perches and three Quarters of a Perch Such being the true Course and ^distance^ tho it is different from the Course and Distance mentioned |
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