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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 490   View pdf image
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       nor Southward but if any way to the Westward nearer the River all
       which he Declared upon Oath and further yo.r Deponant saith not
                                                                                        Daniel Connell


          William Tannehill
       Aged fourty Nine years or there abouts being sworn before us upon the Holy Evangelist
       saith that Coll.o Jn.o Addison having obtained a Comcon from the high Court of
       Chancery bearing date the Eleaventh Day of May 1696 directed to M.r Will.m
       Hutchison and my self to Examine Cap.t George Thompson of S.t Mary's County
       and take his Evidence touching the Bounds of M.r Notly Rozers Land Called
       Admireathorea the beginning bounded Tree thereof being allso the beginning
       of Coll.o Jn.o Addison's Land called S.t Elizabeath in obedience to w.ch Commission
       we caused ^the said^ Cap.t George Thompson to come before us upon y.e said land the 27.th day
       of May 1696 When we went by Water with the said Thompson from Broad
       Creek up the River to Search for the first bound Tree of the said Two Tracts
       of Land, he being desirous to go by water because they went by Water when
       they first took up the Land called Admireathorea and as we was Rowing up
       Potomack River by the said land Cap.t Thompson caused us to put a shore by the
       North side of an Ashen Swamp w.ch swamp is the fourth swamp above a
       high point of Land now known to us by the Name of the hollowing Point
       and there by the side of the Land swamp in an Indian Field ure found a
       bounded white Oake w.ch Tree Cap.t George Thompson did declare upon Oath before
       above Expressed and did positively declare and affirm tat if that was not the ^very^ Tree he
       was Confident it did stand within Twenty or Twenty five paces of that bounded White
       Oake and if any way nearer y.e River all w.ch he solemnly declared upon oath and further
       your Deponant saith not
                                                 Will.m Tannehill


             Jn.o Norris Jun.r
             Aged Twenty two years or thereabouts being sworn before us upon the Holy Evangelist
       saith That Coll.o Jn.o Addison having obtained a Comission out of the high Court of
       Chancery to sumons Cap.t George Thompson to give his Evidence to the Bounds of a
       Tract of land called Admireathorea now belonging to M.r Notly Rozer but first Taken up
       by the said Cap.t George Thompson who being brought there an Evidence y.e 23.d Day of
       June 1702 my self with sev.rall others was p.rsent at a bounded white oake that standeth
       near an Ashen Swamp in an Indian Field w.ch swamp is the fourth swamp
       above a high point of Land now known and called by the Name of hollowing
                                                                                                                Point


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