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716 Execution thereof as well to the James Heath in the Said Comission named as also to Col William Coursey in the said Comission likewise named We find Endorst on the back side of the said Comission as foll.s [I have seen the within Commission and to save the Comiss.rs y.e trouble of sending to me I hereby declare that I will not be Concerned nor attend the Execution of the said Comission (Signed) Will Coursey] Wherefore Wee having given due Notice to the said James Heath Wee the said Comissioners mett upon the seaventeenth day of August Annoq Dm 1710 the following Evidence was produced by y.e said James Heath who deposed as hereafter The Deposition of William Boyer of Kent County Aged ab.t 42 years The Depon.t being duly sworne on the holy Evangelist deposeth that about seaventeen or Eighteen Years since Phillip Holeadger (then the Elder) and this Depon.t being rideing along Blackbird Creek Path in Cæcill County and being then Near the whore kill path the Said Phillip said to this Depon.t pointing to^wards^ a Meadow that lyes Just in the Corner to the westward that at the Lower End of that Meadow and at the head of a Small Branch stood the bound Tree of Ladys delight and this Depon.t going the seaventh day of this Instant August 1710 to the Said Meadow finds at the Lower End thereof and head of a Small Branch a large poplar which to this Depon.t appears to have been bounded & that the same stands about the place where he beleives the Said Phillip meant by the said Direction And the Said Depon.t being Questioned touching the whore kill path and the said path now Called Blackbird Creek Path and a bounded poplar standing thereon about a Mile distant from the whorekill path he deposeth that he hath knowne and been well acquainted with that which now goes by the name of Blackbird Creek path 24 or 25 years and that he never heard ^it^ Called by any other name |
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