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849 And this Depon.t further says that when he was about twelve or thirteen years of Age he Used often to goe to one William Crosses (who lived where M.r Pitts now dwells) and he Used in goeing thither to goe Constantly over a Runn which his father told him was the Beavor Damm Runn And that tis the same near which the Defend.ts North East Line Runns And further saith not his Feb.ry 25.th 1711 Jurat Coram Nobis John I Hendrix R Ungle Mark Tho Collier Abraham Morgan Aged about forty six years on his Test says that about 29 or 30 years agoe he was sent to fetch Andrew Skinner to prove the bounded Tree of My Lords Mannor (there being a dispute between Col Vincent Lowe & John Edmondson about it) And on his Test he says that when the Said Skinner was brought to the Tree that Thomas Edmondson beginns at for Mount hope he caused those that were there to sett him with his back to the Tree and his face to the Riseing of the Sum and being so sett said that if that was the Tree of my Lords Mannor there is a little swamp or pocoson a little from the Tree towards the suns Riseing and a great white oake blown up by the Root betwixt the Tree and the said swamp or pocoson And the said Abraham on his Test further sayth that the above mentioned persons and severall others at that time present lookeing diligently about could not find any such Marks to prove the said Tree by but that the said Tree has been deemed the first Tree of Mount hope from that time to this And has so been Runn out severall times Abra Morgan This Test taken before us y.e 25.th Feb.ry 1711 R Ungle Tho Collier Jan.ry 30.th 1711 The Deposition of Nicholas Lowe of Talbott County aged forty Nine Yeares or thereabouts says that on or about the day and year within mentioned he being at a Resurvey of the within Tract of Land called Mont hope the within Named William Cathrop John Barker and Francis Neale being produced as Evidences on the part of Thomas Edmondson the above Nicholas Lowe did for his owne satisfaction take (a |
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