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693) Hee required the Reason of the said Oakes being unfallen Anne Pritchett the wife of the ^above^ said Heirs William Pritchett Answered that it was abound tree of a parcell of Land called Ceader branch Commonly Called Chaplains Land and being this day upon the spott does declare that the said oake stood according to his best Remembrance Between a Redbudd tree and a Mulberry Tree Now Standing and that he Supposeth the same to be the North East bound Tree of the abovesaid Land and further this Deponent saith not his John I Dorsell (S) Mark Jurat Coram Nobis John Dansey Hen Pereg Jowles Maryland Calvert County fs Jan.ry 8.th 1710/11 The Depp.o of Raphael Hawood Aged Seaventy years or there abouts Who Declares upon the holy Evangelist that about forty Years agon the Depon.t Lived Near the Plantation of One Richard W.m Pritchett Who shewed him an oake that stood within Tenn paces of the Said Pritchetts house in an old orchard the Said Pritchett telling the Said Depon.t that that was Chaplains bound Tree but some time afterwards the Said Depon.t was Informed the Said bound Tree was fallen'd Cutt to Peices and Carryed away in the Night and further the Depon.t Saith that the Spott of Ground he now stands on one Simon Reade made an Exchange with the s.d Deponent it being two hundred Acres of Land the upper part of Chapling Comonly called Ceder Branch And further this Depon.t Saith not Raphel Haywood (S) Jurat Coram Nobis John Dansey Hen Pereg Jowles |
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