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852 Plenty of Ceader and that the same point was his Deponents Usuall Landing place when he went over the Creek to the said Howards and did many times see the afd Tree And further this Deponent saith not The Deposition of William Willoby William Willoby Aged Eighty Seven Years or thereabouts upon his Corporall Oath saith that about forty three or forty four years agoe he this Deponent lived with a Certain Richard Howard Gent as a boarder upon Treadhaven Creek in Talbott County who then was sealed upon a Tract of Land called Griffell and the said Howard carryed him the said Depon.t to a Certain point of Land on the South side of the plantation described in the plott at the Letter A Respecting the plantation to the South West whereon Peter Stoakes then lived and shewed him this Deponent a bounded oake Marked with Twelve Notches standing about fifteen yards North from the Ceder described in the plott at the Letter A and then told him it was his first bounded Tree And did further say that he had taken up a Slipp of Land beginning also at the said Tree and running up the Creeke telling him this Dep.o further how one William Taverns who was his overseer had like to have taken it up before him and this Depon.t further saith that in the Cove on the uper side of the said point his Landlord the afd Howard being a fishing he lost a Gold Ring from of his finger And after that they Usually called that Cove the Ring Cove And further this Deponent saith not Certified p us Tho Robins Tho Collier James Frisby ag.t Peregrine Browne Depo.ns By Virtue of a Comission out of the high Court of Chancery Directed to me Amos Garrett Esq to Examine Evidences in this cause Came before me D.r John Davisson Aged about fifty five years and being sworne on the holy Evangelist Declareth he know the Comp.lt and Defend.t |
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