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397 s.d Assembly but binding only on y.e s.d Hemslys Line w.ch that Line did after some wordes Hemsly said he must submit because I must be beholden to you for living here Y.r Lines takeing away soe much of my Plantation & as there were runing y.e Line w.ch came through Capt Hemslys orchard Coll Loyd Pluckt an Aple of one of y.e Trees & brought to y.e House Capt Hemslys Wife began to raile & should y.e Coll desired her Patience saying he came not there for any such purpose but askd her to eat an Apple out of his orchard w.ch caused her to continue her Raileoury till Capt Hemsly spoke to Her saying Prithee Judith be quiet we shall be forced to be beholden to y.e Coll for we can't live here but by his favour & Itmission & are as it were but Tennants because we can't employ our servants on y.e Plantation without his Leave thereupon Coll Loyd told Capt Hemsly he might use any part of y.e Plantation promised he should not be molested during his Life only required an acknowledgement of y.e Right that was in him is such a part of y.e Plantation as y.e Lines of y.e Resurvey took in saying y.e acknowledgement should be two apples of y.e orchard Capt Hemsly seeing how title Land was like to be left between y.e Lines of Resurvey Used this Expression Pray S.r Leave me but as much Land as will serve me for a burying Place & I am Contented and thereupon y.e Coll gave him his Hand & said y.t as they had been the Neighbours soe they would continue Neighbours still & would not hinder him from making Use of any part of y.e Plantation dureing his Life only required y.e acknowledgement afd & thereupon y.e s.d Capt Hemsly accepted of & assented to y.e Proposalls of y.e s.d Coll Loyd & this Deponent upon further Collection of his Memory doth remember y.t Hemsly himself set y.e Course first & after that y.e Surveyor & that they both agree exactly & further y.e Deponent saith not November y.e 19 1698 Then came before me y.e s.d Woolfren Hunt & made Oath upon y.e holy Evangelist y.t y.e abovesd Deposition is just & true & that it should & might to be recorded in y.e Records in perpetuam rei memoriam Recorded by John Freeman Regist.r A Ad y.e following words to y.e Decree in pag 398 viz.t Wherefore We require & Comand you y.e s.d W.m Hows imediatly upon sight hereof to perform this our Decree by delivering to y.e s.d Moneypeny or his lawfull Attorney quiet & peaceable possession of y.e said Land & premisses according to y.e tenor of y.e afd sentence & Decree as you will answer y.e Contrary yo.r utmost perill Given at Annapolis afd y.e day & year above mentioned & y.e tenth year of his Maj.ties Reign (loc) N Blakiston (Sigilli) (mag) |
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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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