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863 house then standing and the waterside which soon after the said Edward Cotten dyed so they lost their Priviledge of removeing the said apple trees by John Warren who Entred upon the said Land and further saith not Wittness our hands & seales the day & year above written Gerard Slye (S) W.m Watts (S) James Keeches Dep.o ab.t Trent Neck Maryland fs By Virtue of a Comission out of her Majestys high Court of Chancery to us directed bearing date the fifth day of September last Impowering us to call before us such Psons as shall be Nominated by M.r James Keech and to take their Severall Depositions of the bounds of a Certain Tract of Land called Trent neck in order thereunto we have called before us M.r John Burroughs Sen.r and taken his Deposition to the bounds of the said Land which is as follows The Deposition of John Borroughs aged about sixty Eight years sworne upon the holy Evangelist at some time about seven years agoe there was a Certain Line runn between M.r Thomas Trueman Greenfeild and M.r James Keech by Virtue of a Warrant of Resurvey out of the provinciall Court The said Depon.t being one of the Chain carriers saith that there was a South South East ^Line^ from the mouth of Trent Creek a long the River two hundred Eighty five pches to a certain place near the uper end of a Long Marsh by the said River side And that the said Depon.t lived with M.r Thomas Truman and had under his care the cattle Horses creatures of the said Trumans to look after in the said neck which said neck of Land this Depon.t was in it two three or four times a day for many years insomuch that this Depon.t useing the place so Long he is sure he has been at every Tree in the neck now called Trent (neck |
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