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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 500   View pdf image
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       Wittnesses afores.d Nor may you omit to do this with all Convenient Speed  Wittness Our
       Self att Annapolis y.e 13.th Day of October in the first Year of our Reign Anno Dni 1702

                                                                     Jn.o Freeman Reg.r in Chancery

       The Execution of this Comission appears in a certain Shedule hereunto anexed

                                                                                           Tho.s Smithson


Maryland ss

Talbot County
       By Vertue of a Comission dated 13.th October in the first Year of the Reign of
       Ann by the Grace of God of England &c Queen &c to me out of Her Matys High
       Court of Chancery in this Province directed wherein I am nominated and appointed
       to examin all such Wittnesses as should be proposed by sev.rall Inhabitants holding lands
       joyning upon the bounds of the L.d Baltemores Mannor on Choptank River in
       Tallbot County touching the said Wittnesses knowledge and remembrance of the
       outermost bounded Tree of the Mannor afores.d Requiring me at most Time and
       Place to call & cause to come before me the said Wittnesses &c

       I humbly Certifie that on the eighteenth Day of May next after the date of
       the S.d Comission at the proposal of John Dawson & other the sd Inhabitants
       above fifty years who having taken his Corporal oath by me administred
       (as the s.d Com.on authorized me to do) upon the holy Evangelists to declare the truth
       of his knowledge & remembrance touching the p.rmisses  And the s.d Jn.o Nunam
       so sworn did declare upon his oath afd y.t a certain Henry Parker (who was
       formerly Surveyor of Tallbot County & succeeded in that office after a certain
       Skinner) did tell this Deponent that he the said Henry had a Warrant
       to Resurvey the said Mannor and did desire this Deponent to go with him and
       that he the said Henry did show this Deponent a great Oake markt with twelve
       Notches standing near an Old Indian Path near the branches of Kings Creek and
       the said Henry did declare to this Deponent that the said Oake was the Center Tree
       of the L.d Baltemores Mannor of Choptank and that he y.e s.d Henry at the appointm.t
       & Comand of the af.d Andrew Skinner who first survey'd it for his Lott
       markt this same Tree with an Hatchett & y.t the Tree w.ch he the said John at the time
       and place afd did show me & others whose names are hereunder written is the very
       same Tree which Tree being now decayed & dead I laid four large stones (viz.t)
       three of them on the Ground on the North Side of the Tree touching the Root of
       the Tree & one touching another & the fourth lies upon the other three to remain
       in perpetual Remembrance of the bounds of the said Mannor  And furthermore
       I markt a ^little^ Spanish Oake with Three Notches on that side of it w.ch respects the said
       original markt Tree & 12 foot West & by South distant from it in p.rsence of y.e af.d John
       Nunam Rob.t Gough Jun.r Will.m Bush Christopher Sprigg John Dawson Rob.t Gough
       Joseph Gough William Gough Edmund Hish John Bush Rich.d Bush  In Witness where
       of the truth whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seal this af.d 18.th day of May
       Anno Domini 1703
                                                                         Tho Smithson      (sigill)


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