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864 Neck but Just as the Depon.t came into the Country it was called Stephens Creek now Trent Creek and in all his time he never see any bound Tree in the said Neck nor about that Tract of Land And as for the Water gaining upon the Land where it is said M.r Greenfeilds bounded Tree should stand is a South East Shoar and I cann very well remember that about forty seven years agoe on that shore close by the water side there stood a great Red Oake which said Tree there is still lying in the Water by the shore side and that the water has gained little or nothing upof the Land on y.t shore for the above Terme of Years And this Depon.t further declareth that there is a great Broad Creek parts M.r James Keechs Land and M.r Thomas Trueman Greenfeilds and the Land which the said M.r Greenfeild would take away about forty seven years ago I knew there a Cornefeild and Oven and peach orchard and heard M.r Thomas Trueman call it Cornelius Canedeys Coold feild and that the said Trueman suffered the said land to be bought and sold without Mollestation or Disturbance And this Deponent further saith that one John Morris bought the said Land that the said Keech now claimes of Cornelius Caniday And the said Morris dying his heir because an orphan who was brought up from a Child by the said M.r Thomas Trueman And this Depon.t further saith not S.t Marys County Decemb.r y.e 30.th 1712 Sworne before us upon the Land William Aisquith James Bowles |
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