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747 Depositions in Relation to the aforesaid Tract of Land and have Reduced the same into writing under our hands and seales as hereunto annext this 26.th day of May Anno 1711 The Deposition of Thomas Tucker aged sixty year or thereabouts to who being Dep.o upon the holy Evangelist declares as followeth that about twenty year agoe one William Harbert the son of the afd William Harbert who was part taker up of the afd Tract of Land with the afd Valentine Huddlestone Came to the house of the said Deponent and asked him the said Depon.t if he could Tell him where Thomas Robertsons bounded ^bounded^ white oak stood for that the bounded Tree of the Land called Hard Travell white oake of Thomas Robersons Land was one of the bounded Trees of the Land called Hard Travell which belonged to him the said William Harbert and the said Depon.t saith that at the same time the said Harbert asked him the said Deponent whereabouts the afd ^bounded^ white oake did stand he the said Dep.o was in possession of a Parcell of Land which he the said Depon.t bought of Thomas Roberson afd and he the said Depon.t Gave the Said William Harbert Directions where he should find a bounded white oak standing on a point which was one of the Trees of Thomas Robersons then in Possession of the said Deponent & the said Dep.o further saith that he never went to the said Tree to shew the said Harbert the Place that the bounded tree of Thomas Robersons Land did stand but only Directed him the said Harbert as afd and that he the said Depon.t could not find by the words that the said Harbert spoke then to him the said Depon.t that he the said Harbert knew any thing or was any ways acquainted with the said bounded white oak but only the knowledge that he the Depon.t gave him the said Harbert in directing him as afd to goe to his the said Deponents bounded white oake which was formerly Thomas Robertsons oak and the said Depon.t farther Saith that he the said Depon.t knows nothing of the said White Oak to be the bounded Tree of Hard Travell of his owne knowledge all this deposed on the place where the said Depon.t Directed the said Harbert to goe and find the bounded white oak which did belong to him the said Deponent and formerly Thomas Robersons and it being the same place and Tree that the said Depo.t lately Deposed to before Cap.t John Mackall & M.r James Mackall by a Comission out of Chancery at the Request of M.r Benjamin Tasker and farther Saith not as to that bounded Tree But the said Deponent farther Deposeth and saith that there is another bounded white oake which Thomas (Roberson |
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