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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 766   View pdf image
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       side of the Road Main Road that comes downe Patuxent
       from M.r Richard Marshams and on the south side of the path
       that cometh from Maddam Whites to M.r Thomas Gants Quarter
       M.r Luke Gardiner aged thirty one Years or thereabouts made oath &
       being Interrogated what he heard John Browne say in relation to
       a bounded Tree of M.r Gants Answerth that to the best of his Remembrance
       the said Browne sett his foot down to the North or rather
       North west side of the said stump and afirmed that there stood
       a bounded Hickory of M.r Gants Land Land and that ^when^ the Hickory &
       the oake of the abovesaid stump was standing he could not without
      dificulty goe Between them  And being asked by this Deponent
       how he know it to be the bounded Tree of M.r Gants Land he Ans.rd
       that old M.r Gant shewed it and told him it was the bounder & furth.r
       saith not

          Also at the same time and place came M.r John Smith of Charles
       County Aged Seventy three Years or thereabouts and made oath upon
       the holy Evangelist being asked what he knew in relation to the
       bounds of M.r Gants Land Answered that being at the Resurvey of the
       said Land about Twenty five or Twenty six years agone in Company
       with M.r Gant and M.r Marsham and Maj.r Beale the Survey.r Especially
       appointed That the Resurvey was begunn at a stump of Hickory
       standing by the stump above mentioned which stump was then ^a^ standing
       live tree and is the same Black Stump mentioned in the oath above
       mentioned so near to which the afd bounded Hickory stood that a horse could
       scarce pass Between which Hickory stump was by M.r Marsham & Gant
       acknowledged and allowed for a bounder of Gants Land & further saith not

                      Alsoe John Rook aged forty Seven Years or thereabouts (at the
       place by M.r Luke Gardiners Oath) first above mentioned made oath on
       the holy Evangelist that he the Said Rook being serv.t to the Said Gant
       and Walkin with his said Master the very day of the Resurvey mentioned
       in John Smiths oath his said Master told him that that Hickory
       stump standing by the white Black stump afd in M.r Gardiners
                                                                                              (Oath


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