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857 Patrick Maggatee Aged sixty years or thereabouts declares on the holy Evangelist that about sixteen years since Francis Adams late of Charles County told this Depon.t that he was with M.r Rich.d Edelen the then Survey.r of Charles County at the takeing up of the abovesaid Tract of Land for M.r Jerome White and that the said Survey.r ordered him the said Adams to bound this White Oake whereon this Depon.t now lays his hand for the Beginning bounded Tree of the above said Tract And the said Tree stands by a Branch between two springs and about thirty Yards Distant from one of the said springs and about thirty two yards from the other And that ever since this Depon.t knew these parts the said Tree was Reputed by all that knew it to be the beginning bounded Tree of the said Tract of Land called Whites Ford And further saith not June 1.st 1712 Sworne before Phill Hoskins (S) Rob.t Hanson (S) Henry Clarks Depos.ns about a Tract of Land called Stokley By Virtue of a Comission out of her Majestys high Court of Chancery Directed to John Leach and Henry Cox to Examine Evidences Concerning the bounds of a Tract of Land now in the possession of Henry Clarke & Eliz.a Hutchins called Stockeley; Pursuant thereunto Wee have called before us John Tauman aged seaventy years or thereabouts He being sworne upon the holy Evangelist comeing to a bounded white oake standing upon a point at the mouth of Hunting Creek and declared that Eight and forty Years agoe or thereabouts that John Hannat John Winnall John Daniel William Allinge (all which said persons Were servants upon the plantation of Woodman Stockley before my time) that the afd (Psons |
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