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855 still perceptable the abovesaid oake is still standing also the two Spanish oake saplins which are now small Trees on each side the Root of the said White oake one of which is now dead and the Said white oake with the other two Trees at his Root now stands about six fett from the above declared path and on the South side of the same Just before the Entrance or mouth of Neales Neck (otherwise Wolliston Mannor) and is about the Distance of Twenty five Paces from the head of a great Marsh which proceeds from the head of a Creeke (by the pattent of Gills Land) is called S.t James Creek which Creek (according to the said Pattent) is the west and south bounds of the said LAnd and falls into the above named Wicocomoco River And further this Deponent saith not William Campton aged fifty and two years or thereabouts Declares on the holy Evangelists that about Twenty Nine Years since Cap.t James Neale did shew to this Deponent a bounded White Oake Tree standing without the Narrows of Neales Neck and about Twenty five paces from a great Marsh that proceeds (according to Gills Patent) from Saint James Creek which falls into Wicocomoco River and this Depon.t did then hear the Said Cap.t James Neale say the said Oake was the deviding Lyne of Tree of the Land belonging to his sons James Neale and Anthony Neale without the Neck of Wooliston Mann.r the said Tree now stands on the south side of a path that Leads from a plantation Called Charles Towne a Cross a Neck of Land and about six foot from the said path which oake Tree stands between two small Spanish oakes (one of which is now dead) and is the same White oake whereon he now lays his hand and further saith not George Newman aged fifty three years or thereabout doth declare on the holy Evangelist that about Twenty four years since he did see Cap.t Rand.o Brandt then Survey.r of Charles County and M.r William Roswell then of S.t Marys County both now decd sworne before Humphry Warren & John Courts (then Justices of the Said Charles County) at a bounded white oake Tree which stands upon Woolliston Mann.r on the South Eastermost side of a Creeke called Ware Creeke and Just before the Entrance of a sand beach which makes the mouth of the Said Creek and declared upon their oaths laying (their |
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