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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 655   View pdf image
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       He the said Dep.t did see a White Oake bounded with about sixteene
       Notches and this Dep.t then Enquireing what Markt Tree that should be the
       said Hooton Answered this Dep.t sayd it was Robert Harwoods first
       bounded Tree of his Land Coole Spring


Maryland fs.t                                          Dorchester County November 16.th 1709
   
       By Virtue of a Comission obtained by the Honoble Thomas Ennalls Esq.r out of the
       high Court of Chancery to us the Subscribed directed bearing date the second day
       of September Anno Domini 1709 Wee in humble manner Certifie that
       they day and Yeare abovesaid personally appeared before Us William
       Smith of the said County planter aged about forty Two Yeares or thereabouts
       who being by Us upon the holy Evangelist Sworne upon his Oath doth say
       that about three Yeares since being in Company with Phillips Shapley and
       severall other people upon a point of Land near the Mouth of Transquaking
       River a little below the Landing place of a certaine Richard Meares
       the said Shapley then shewed him and the rest of the Company the place
       where a Bounded Tree of a Tract of Land called Phillips Borough formerly
       stood w.ch is about a hundred Yards below the said Landing and further this
       Deponent saith That the said Phillip Shapley then made Oath before the
       said Thomas Ennalls that the said bounded Tree did stand near the said place
       the Copy of w.ch Deposition is hereunto annexed w.ch this Deponent saith he
       veryly beleives is the same Deposition that was then taken  And further
       saith not


Maryland fs.t              To all Xpian People to whome these p.rsent shall
       Come Know yee that this day to with the 7.th day of Octob.r 1706 M.r Phillip
       Shapley of Northumberland County in the Colony of Virginia aged Sixty One
       Yeares or thereabouts did sware before me Thomas Ennalls one of her Majestys
       Councill on the holy Evangelist that about thirty ^six^ Yeares since he the said
       Dep.t was Deputy Surveyor of Dorchester County in this province and that
       he did survey some time in the Yeare of our Lord 1670 for the honoble
       Phillip Calvert a certaine Tract of Land called the Mannor of Phillips
       Borough Scituate and lyeing on the South side of Transquaking then called
       Chicocomoco or Phillips Creek  And further the Dep.t doth sware that the
       begining of the said Land was at a Marked White Oake the w.ch Tree did
       stand about One hundred Yards below the Landing of one Richard
       Meares by the Mack side w.ch is the first Landing on the South side of the
       said Creeke from the Month thereof and further saith not
                                                                                           Phillip Shapleigh
Jurat Coram me  Tho Ennalls


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