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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       Which was repûted to be y.e bounded Tree of Wades point all which
       the S.d Hollinsworth being then psent did Affirm to this Dep.t and fûrther
       said that he Lived Some Time on y.e other Side of y.e s.d Cove right opposite
       to y.e s.d Bounded Tree and y.t he Thoûght he Could have Shott a bullett
       into y.e s.d Tree from his Dwelling hoûse & this Dep.t saith that they
       y.e s.d James Mûrphey & Hûgh Sherwood did Caûse a Tree to be boûned as
       near as they Could to y.e place where y.e old Tree Stood att y.e Distance of
       Aboût twenty or Thirty feet from it  And as to y.e Second Boûnded tree
       of y.e s.d Land  This Dep.t Saith that at y.e Moûth of a Swampy Gully
       on the Bay Side y.e s.d George Collison and Another Evidence which he
       this Dep.t Cannot remember did Swear y.t a Marked pine Tree which
       then lay att y.e place Afd was repûted to be y.e Second Bounded Tree
       of y.e Tract of Land called Wades point and y.t they this Dep.t and y.e s.d
       James Mûrphey did order another pine Tree which Stood aboût thirty
       paces distant from y.e former w.ch is now there Standing to be boûned
       And further Saith not

          Sworn before ûs y.e 30.th Day of Aprile Anno Dom 1707  John Hawkins
                                                                                                    M.oos Warde


       Talbott Ss
                      To his Excy Jn.o Seymoûr Esq.r Cap.t Grald & Gove.r in Chief
                   in and over her Majestys province of Maryland and high Chancellor
                   of y.e Same  We y.e Subscribers being Aûthorized & Impowered by a
                   Comission oût of y.e high Coûrt of Chancery bearing Date y.e 20.th
                   Day of March in y.e Sixty Year of her Majesties Reign Annoq
                   Domini 1706/7 to Examin (on behalf of Edw.d Leeds and Jn.o Leeds
                   of this Coûnty of Talbott planters) Severall Evidences to prove the
                   Bounded Trees of a Tract of Land Called Wades point doe humbly
                   Certifie

       That by Virtue of y.e s.d Commission and pûrsûant to y.e Request of Edw.d
       and Jn.o Leeds we did Caûse Severall Evidences to be Sûmmoned viz Hûgh Sherwood
       Daniel Sherwood Ennion Williams Edw.d Hambletone W.m Ha^m^bleton Edw.d
       Elliot Sen.r W.m Leeds and Jn.o Sandsbûry to Appear before ûs att y.e Dwelling
       hoûse of Edw.d Leeds on y.e 30.th Day of Aprile then next following and at
       y.e Day and place afd y.e Severall Evidences before mentioned did Appear
       all (Except Daniel Sherwood who alledged y.t he had Earnest business
       Elsewhere and Coûld not come) and from thence (in order to Execûte the
       Aûthority by y.e s.d Commission to ûs Delegated) we did repair to y.e place
       where y.e first boûnded Tree of y.e s.d Land called Wades point was Sûpposed to
       Stand and did reqûire y.e Sever.ll Evidences there psent to Give their Depositions
       Concerning y.e pmisses which was refused by Ennion Williams and Jn.o
       Sandsbûry who being who being by ûs reqûired to render their reasons for so
       doing y.e s.d Ennion Williams made Answere y.t he was a party Concerned
       in y.e bounds of y.e s.d Land and was not by y.e Land obliedged to your
                                                                                                             Evidence


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