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672) made a Will and that John Rutter Alice Rutter and John Stephins her then husband were Wittnesses thereto and perticularly Remembers it by Reason hee said Master wold have given her said husband a peice of Land but his son would not Condecend to't And further saith not Interrogatorys put to M.r Mahitable Peirpont of Ann Arundell County Did you ever hear of a Will of Rich.d Beards the Elder that was Recorded in Ann Arundell County Records and afterwards supposed to be Cutt off the Bookes & destroyed by his son Richard after Col.o Burgess's Death & what doe you know or have heard thereof To this Interrogatory she saith she knew Rich.d Beard the Elder and had heard that he made a Will which was Recorded in Ann Arundell County Records about 26 years past M.r Henry Bonner then being Clerk in whose Absence the said Records were Comitted to the Care of Otho Holland her then husband and that in the time of Bonners absence her husband and said Beard was in the office best part of a day and when Bonner returned he blamed her husband for suffering the said Beard to play the Rogue with the Records (as he termed it In Cutting out two Leaves and that he askt by Geo Holland what was contained in them Answered the said Beards fathers Will and that she heard it Talk't of Afterward And further some time in May was 12 M.o having Discourse will Thomas Crouchley concerning it he told her he was present in the office at the time it was done And further Saith not In Testimoney whereof and in pursuance of her Ma.tys Commission to us Directed Wee have hereunto affixed our hands & seales as by the same Wee are required This Tenth day of July Ann D, 1710 Sam.l Young (S) Cha Greenberry (S) Th.o Larkin (S) Tho.s Jones Clk |
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