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695 705 4.thly Doe you know the now known Path or Roads of Potuxent River and how long have you known the same to be cleared and made a path or Roade and whether the same was not Cleared since the Pattenting of the said Harvey's Mannor from the Resurrection Mannor to a Tree lying in S.t Maryes County called the Horn Tree near the halfway house at the charge of the hon.ble William Stone then Governor of Maryland and how the same came to be called Phœnix his path 5.thly Doe you know or have you heard where the first bounded Tree of the said Harvey's Land stood and whether you have not heard that the same stood at the head of S.t Lawrence's Creeke and how you came to know and hear the same 6.thly Doe you know or have you heard where the antient Potuxent Roade was before the now Road or pathway Cleered and whether the same did not goe over the head of Back River and S.t Lawrence's Creeke as near as possible they could goe 7.thly Doe you know the Land of the said Samuel Watkins called the Ripe in Calvert County and how the lower line of the said land runs and whether the said land or any part thereof be within S.t Josephs Mannor to your knowledge and how you know the same soe to be 8.thly Doe you know S.t Nicholas his Creeke in Back River and what part of the River comes it from and how you came to know the same By vertue of a Comission to us Thomas Tasker John Bigger & Francis Freeman directed from the high Court of Chancery bearing date the 26.th of July 1694 for the Examinacon of such evidences as should be produced for and on behalf of Samuel Watkins of Calvert County Gent concerning a Tract of Land lying in Calvert County aforesaid called the Ripe upon certain Interrogatoryes hereunto annexed In obedience to which Commission we have met at the house of Richard Keene in Calvert Town this day to wit the 17.th of September 1694 John Demall of Calvert County planter aged Thirty five years or thereabouts being sworn and Examined saith 1.st Int To the first Interrogatory That he did not know Nicholas Harvey but the Tract of Land whereon he lived he knew and by the Relacon of old M.r Hopewell and old M.r Richard Keene and M.r Francis Beckwith and his own Mother and other of the Neighbourhood that the head line of the said Land did run with the known path of Potuxent which path did run over the head of S.t Lawrence's Creeke and the bound upon the River was from the mouth of S.t Lawrence's Creeke to the mouth of S.t Nicholas his Creeke 2.d Int As to the second Interrogatory he can say no more then what he hath said above 3.d Int As to the Third he saith not 4.th Int As to the fourth he saith that he has known the now Potuxent Road this Twenty seven years called by the name of Phenixs path and the Road to S.t Maryes |
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1676-1700
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