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851 in the Ninth Year of her Majestys Reigne &c.a Annoq Dm 1710 Directed to us Viz.t Thomas Robins and Thomas Collier of Talbott County afd thereby Nominated and Appointed Comissioners to Examine Evidences touching the bounds of a Certain Tract of Land lying in Talbott County afd upon Treadhaven Creek called & knowne by the Name of Griffith Wee doe hereby Certifye That on the seventh day of November the year abovesaid Peter Stoaks and William Willoby two Evidences produced by Nicholas Lowe of Talbott County afd Gent on their Corporall Oaths on the holy Evangelist to them administred by us in the presence of Foster Turbutt Tenant in Possession of the premises being by us Examined touching the bounds of the abovesaid Tract of Land called Griffell And Interrogated by the afd Foster Turbutt openly did depose and declare as followeth Viz.t Peter Stoakes Aged Eightyeen years or thereabouts saith that he was very well acquainted with M.r Richard Howard in Virginia before he removed up to Maryland to live upon a Tract of Land upon Tradhaven Creeke called Griffell and that some years after the said Howard was Remove he this Deponent also remove to live upon a Tract of Land to the Southward of the said Howard a Cross a Small Creek then belonging to one Cap.t John Tench called long point lying upon Andertons Creek and that about forty three or forty four years agoe he this Deponent goeing over the Creek to M.r Howards in Company of the said Howard to a Certain point described in the plott at the Letter A (whereon stands a bounded Ceder) said there to be the beginning of the Land called Griffell The Said Howard carryed him this Deponent and then shewed him a bounded oak standing upon the said point about fifteen yards North from the said Ceder Respecting a point over the afd Creek to the South Easterly called Andertons point whereon stands the bounded Tree of the Land called Anderton and the first bounded Tree of Land whereon he this Deponent then dwelt and the Said Howard then and there told him this Depon.t that that oak shewn as afd was the first bounded Tree of the Land upon w.ch he the said Howard then lived and the said Deponent further saith that in those times he was frequently at the said Howards house at Merrymakeings & Carrying frames for houses part of which was gott upon the af point it then abounding with (plenty |
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