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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 756   View pdf image
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       the afd Tract of Land called Webley saying that Phapps there might
       hereafter be some Difference about it for that it was downe & might
       float away and further saith that they went with him and the Said
       Fishburne did shew him a bounded ask Tree lying downe the bank
       which had nine Notches in it lying near the place where there is this
       day a Locust post set up marked with Twelve Notches) and did Tell
       them that that was the first bounded Tree of the afd Tract of Land
       called Webley and as to the Second bounded Tree of the Said Land he saith
       that he hath often heard William Webb in his life time say that he
       the said W.m heard his father Edmund [illegible] Webb in his life time say
       that a bounded Ceader Tree which stood by a Marsh Side between the
       Dwelling plantations of him this Deponent and the afd W.m Webb &
       now lyes there (near unto which there is this day bounded a white oake
       Tree) was bounded instead of the second bounded Tree of the afd Land
       called Webley and further saith not
                            Taken upon oath y.e 20.th day of Septemb.r Anno 1711

                                                                   P W T Warde


Talbott fs
          Ennion Williams of Talbott County aged about forty Years concerning the
       bounds of a Tract of Land called Webley saith that in the Year 1704
       Ralph Fishburne showed him the stump of an ash tree about Twelve
       or fourteen foot Long lying downe the bank side (near the place where there is a
       Locust post sett up mark'd with Twelve Notches) on the bay side in the
       plantation which now belongs to Francis Bullock & told him this Dep.o
       that it was a peice of the first bounded Tree of the afd Land called Webley
       and that it seemed to him this Deponent to have Notches in it but that he
       did not goe downe the banck to it and further saith that the said Ralph
       Fishburne before that time had told him the said Deponent that the first
       bounded Tree of the said Land was an ash and that it was broke Downe and as
       to the second bounded Tree of the afd Land the said Ennion Williams saith
       that he doth Rember that both Ralph Fishbourn and William Webb did
       owne a Ceader Tree that stood by a Marsh side between their then dwelling
       plantations (near to the place where there was this day a White Oake Tree
       bound) to be y.e division Tree between them and that he this Deponent hath been


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