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751 of all which premises is hereby Certified under our hands & seales Tho.s Clagett (S) Patrick Hepburn (S) Richard Vowles Depo.s Concerning the bounds of his Land In obedience to a Comission to us directed Impowering and Requireing as to call & cause to come before us all such Evidences as shall ^should^ be to You Nominated & produced unto us by Richard Vowles liveing on S.t Clements Bay in S.t Mary County and to Examin them and every of them on their Corporall Oaths to be by us Administred on the holy Evangelist touching their knowledge and Remembrance of the bounds of a parcell of Land belonging to the said Vowles of the afd County being the dwelling plantation of the said Vowles as by the said Com.sn dated the first day of August ^Anno^ 1711 (may and doth appear Wee therefore at the Request of the Said Vowles sumoned & called before us John Nevett of the said County planter who being sworne upon the holy Evangelist declared as followeth upon the place that near the place where he stood (being upon the side of S.t Clements Bay) he knew and saw a bounded spanish oake above forty Years past he being now about seventy Years of age and that he saw the said oak about Twenty Years past standing on the side of S.t Clements Bay upon a Narrow Oyster Bank near a small bite or Cove and that the said tree was since washed into the bay and that he knew the said Tree to be the bounds of two severall Tracts of Land the one called Redbudd thicket the now Dwelling plantation of the said Vowles and the other called Rocky Point and that the said two tracts of Land did formerly belong to one Richard Nevett the Depon.ts father Wee likewise at y.e same place and time being the date of these presents swore Eliz.a Gough aged about Twenty and Eight Years who swore that she being formerly the wife of George Medcalf decd who was possessed of a Tract of Land lying on the East Side of S.t Clements Bay called & knowne by the name of Rocky point the said George in his life time did tell this depon.t that a Certain Tree which formerly stood on an oyster shell branch near a Small Cove being near the |
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