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871 Edgerton or either of them should Nominate or Produce and said Persons to Examine on their Corporall oaths on the holy Evangelist touching the bounds of a Tract of Land in Prince Georges County called Piscataway Mannor containing three thousand Acres these are therefore to Certifye that I've called and cause to come before me under written such Evidences as the said Thomas Randolph and James Edgerton Nominated to me to prove the beginning of a Tract of Land taken up by one M.r Randolph Hynson whereon the bounds of the said Piscataway Mannor depends which is as followeth viz.t March y.e last 1713 Being at a bounded Hiccory standing on a point on Potomack River side over against Small island in the Mouth of a Small Creek formerly called Akakeeth Creek now knowne by the name of Joes Creek came M.r Francis Malbury aged fifty years or thereabouts and made oath on the holy Evangelist that about seventeen or Eighteen years agoe he went downe to M.r Randolph Hynson in order to buy or purchase his Land in Akakeek and telling him that he had found a bounded oake which the said Deponent supposed to be his last bounder upon the River Side his Answer was noe that that was his Lower bounder of his ^lower^ last Tract and that the Beginning of his uper Tract was a hickory which according to his Discription of the place the Depon.t came and found the said Hickory and telling of one Daniel Connell of said Tree which the said Connel gave the Deponent to understand that he knew the said Tree to be the Beginning of said Hinsons Land and afterwards telling of M.r William Hatton of the said Tree he Answered that he was with the said Hinson at the Resurvey of the said Land and discribed unto the Deponent the Place and how the Land Runn which upon a Resurvey of it made by M.r Hutchinson did agree and farther saith not The same day and place Came Richard Conner aged fifty one years or thereabouts and being sworne on the holy Evangelist saith that he was hereabouts a lookeing for Cattle with M.r W.m Hutchison about 15 or 16 years agoe and said Hutchison biding the said Conner goe along the River and he would goe through the Thickett and the Depon.t saith that goeing to the said Hutchinson on his calling him to him he told the said Hutchison of the aforesaid bounded Hickory and his answer was that the said Tree was a bound tree of Hinson or Fendalls Land which the Depon.t cannot Positively say and further saith not The same day and Place Came M.r John Fendall aged thirty Nine or thereabouts and being sworne on the holy Evangelist saith that after he had bought the said Land of |
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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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