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(499) the bounds of the Land afd and to send their sev.ll Depositions under my Hand and seale to the Register of the said Court &c I Certifie that on the seaventh day of August 1702 I called and caused to come before me upon the said Land called the four Square near the Fork of a Branch of Kings Creek betwixt the houres of Ten and Twelve the s.d Day a Certain Jn.o Nunam aged fifty years or upwards of sound Memory and understanding to whom Judgministred an oath upon the Holy Evangelist that he should speak the truth touching the bounds of the Land afd w.ch sd Jn.o Nunam Examined upon his Corporall Oath then and there did show to me and others hereafter Named and Old fallen Hiccory Tree long ago fallen and now when in such place on the Grant of the said Land doth describe and then and there before me and others demanded upon his Corporall oath afd did say that same Hiccory Tree was the first markt Tree of the afd 1000 Acres of Land called the four Square And that he the sd Jn.o Nunam did mark the sd Hiccory in the p.rsence of William Helmsley then Surveyor for the very first Tree of the af.d 1000 Acres of Land called the four Square and by the speciall order and direction of the said surveyor and further said not and no other Wittnesses were produced And because the s.d Hiccory was allmost wasted away Yet the Hole where the Root was being manifestly distinguishable Therefore for more perfect continuance of the Exact bounds of the afd 1000 Acres of Land called the four Square ^in remembrance^ of the Exact which stood sixteen foot North and by West from the Center of the said Hole of the Root with four Notches on the South Side one right above another in p.rsence of the said Jn.o Nunam John Pitts William Coursey William Turbutt Joseph Nunam, William Neale, and Robert Gouldsborough August y.e 7.th Anno Dni 1702 Tho.s Smithson These words in Remembrance were interlined (sigill) before sealing Comission to Examine Evid for the bounds of L.d Baltemores Mannor in Tallbot County And Depositions to the Bounds of Lord Baltemores Mannor on Choptank River in Tallbot County filed October y.e 2.d 1703 Maryland fs Ann by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c To Thomas Smithson of Tallbot County Gen.t Greeting We have Nominated and appointed You our Com.r to Examin all such Witnesses as shall be to you proposed and nominated by sev.rll Inhabitants holding Lands joyning upon the bounds of the Land Baltemores Mannor on Choptank River in Tallbot County touching there y.e s.d Wittnesses Knowledge & Remembrance the outermost bounded Tree of the Mannor af.d And therefore We Require you the said such time and place as to you shall seem meet you call and cause to come before You the s.d Wittnesses and y.t you examin them and every of them upon their Corporal oaths to you administred upon the Holy Evangelist touching their knowledge & remembrance in p.rmisses And that reducing and the substance of their sev.rall and respective Depositions into writing you send the same together with this our Comission under your hands and seals written to the Register of our high Court of Chancery to be Recorded [in perpetuam Rei memoriam] to p.rvent Debates that runs else write by the death of all or any of the wittnesses |
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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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