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756 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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