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844 Swansons Lott in the said County pursuant to which Wee the said Robert Tyler and Thomas Claggett did on the Tenth day of this Instant August 1710 call before us Col Ninian Beale aged about Eighty four Years who having then his oath administred on the holy Evangelist by laying one hand on the Tree and the other on the Booke did declare (as followeth) That a a Certain Charles Boteler the Survey.r of the abovesaid Tract of Land did about thirty six years past shew him the said Ninian Beale a bounded white oake standing on the south side of a Branch called Bores Brooke and told him the said Beale that the said white oak was the first bounded Tree of a Tract of Land called Swansons Lott and also the first bounded Tree of a Tract of Land called Basuithrop Hall Laid out for one Edward Isaac & a bounded Tree of a Tract of Land laid out for Thomas Bowdell called Bowdells Choice The same day the said Beale went with us to a bounded Poplar standing Near Thomas Wells's plantation and did declare on his oath that the abovesaid Charles Boteler shewed him the said poplar and told him it was a bounded Tree of the said Land called Swansons Lott and that he never bounded any other Tree for the said Land but the abovesaid White oake and the said poplar and that the said Butler further told the said Beale that he did make the said poplar the last bounded Tree of the said Land called Swansons Lott and also the same day the said Beale went to a pear Tree standing in a stump on a small hill near the Mouth of a Branch called Bores Brook & there declared upon oath that about thirty six years agoe a Certain Robert Hobbs shewed him the said Beale a bounded White oake standing and growing on the abovesaid stump that the said pear Tree is now growing in and told him the said Beale that it was the first bounded Tree of a Tract of Land laid out for Cap.t Josiah Fendall called the Cool Spring Mannor And further saith not The same day came M.r Francis Collier Sen.r aged about (sixty |
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