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403) æquall parts by y.e plt & Def.ts y.t is to say one Moyety by y.e s.d Compl.t & y.e other Moyety one third of y.e Moyety by y.e Deft Mary & ye other two thirds of y.e Moyety by y.e said Vachel The s.d Cost being Eight hundred & sixteen pounds of tobacco besides y.e Attorneys Fees (Signed) Hen Jowles Chancell.r
Depositions for Ambrose Kennement Dec.r 10.th 1698 By virtue of a Comission to Us directed from y.e Court of Chancery We have Called before Us John Newman of Talbot County plant.r aged about fifty Six years in perfect health & did make oath before Us yt about thirty three or thirty four years ago he put in for a Cropp with one John Knight y.t lived upon a piece of Land in Keeds Creek in S.t Michaells River in Talbot County And as he was clearing a piece of Ground y.e s.d John Knight came to him & shewed him a bounded Tree & cautioned him not to fall y.e s.d Tree telling him it was his bounded Tree wch to y.e best of his remembrance was a Cedar but what was y.e name of y.e tract of Land y.t John Knight then lived on or wch was y.e then reputed Mouth of Keeds Creek this Dep.t knoweth not but go to y.e place where y.e s.d bounded Tree stood this Dep.t knoweth very well remembreth y.t it stood upon y.e lower side of a Marsh near a piece of clear Ground where then stood a tobacco house & farther saith y.t being lately upon y.e s.d Land y.t formerly belonged to & was in y.e possession of y.e s.d John Knight he saw y.e Post of a tobacco house & doth verily believe these posts to be y.e afd bounded tree wch he was cautioned not to cut down & y.t y.e s.d tree bore something up y.e Creek from y.e s.d house wch this Dep.t thinks was to y.e norward of afd tobacco house And farther this Dept saith That there was a Cove between y.e s.d Land y.t he cleared for John |
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