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765 by a Certain George Richardson then Survey.r to goe with him & assist him in surveying of sundry Tract of Land ^one of which was a Tract of Land^ laid out for John Edmondson called Calf pasture scituate on the south side of Great Choptank River in Dorchest.r County Then called Talbott County Beginning at a Marked oake standing on a point on the East Side of a Small Creeke that falls into the said River Neer half a Mile below a Creeke called Secretarys Creeke or Ferry Creek where a Certain Isaac Nicholls now keep Ferry And the said Deponent saith on his oath afd that he with the assistance of one Richard Bowen did Marke the Beginning Tree afd as also the said Depon.t doth further on his oath declare that when the said Land was laid out for Edmondson as afd of the Indians lived on the said Land and that he doth not remember that any Indians at that time lived below the said Land And the said William Willoughby doth further on his oath say that Twenty odd years since he was bound up the said Choptank River and the wind Blowing Contrary he putt into the said Small Creek for a harbour & went a shore on the afd point and did then soe the said Marked Oake Tree of said Land Calf pasture which was then fallen downe and part Rotten And that he Rid yesterday downe to the said Creeke and the said Beginning Tree of the said Land called Calf pasture as afd was quite gone And further saith not The above Examination taken before us as Wittness our hands & Seales this Seventeenth day of October Annoq Dm 1711 Walter Campbell (S) Jn.o Rider (S) Thomas Gants Depositions about a Tract of Land called Marshams Rest Prince Georges County fs 1711 By Virtue of a Comission from her Majestys Reg.r of her High Court of Chanc.ry directed to us Fredrick Claudius and Phillip Lee Wee have caused the following Evidences to appear before us Viz.t M.r Luke Gardiner M.r John Smith and M.r John Rook whose Depositions follow 7b.r 6 1711 All the Evidences afd being at a black stump standing on the West (Side) |
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