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872 of said Hynson asked him how he should find it told him that the first bounder was a Hickory and that it stood on a point by the River side and that he thinks told him of a Small Pland that lyes at the mouth of the Little Creeke as Expressed before me and that the Lower Tract tooke in the said Creeke and Referred the Depon.t to M.r Mabury and M.r Hutchinson to shew him it which upon his application to them they came and shewed the Said Tree to the Depon.t which the Deponent understood from said Hynson that they knew the said to to be his bounder the Deponents Discouse with the said Hynson was about Fifteen Sixteen or Seventeen Years agoe And further y.e Depon.t saith not The same day and Place Came Phillip Lewing (his age I forgott to take an account of but I beleive about sixty Years of Age) and saith being sworne on the holy Evangelist that he knoweth nothing of the Said tree or bounds of said land and that to his knowledge he never see said Tree before & further saith not Sworne before me Luke Gardiner (S) Anthony Wise his Depotions By Virtue of a Comission out of her Majestys high Court of Chancery to us Directed bearing date the third day of this Instant March Impowering us to Examine Evidences touching a Certain Deed or Conveyance made p and from John Clements unto Christopher Wise Wee humbly Certifye that on Tuesday y.e 17.th of said Mouth we caused to come before us Caleb Eastgate and Abigell Wise who deposeth on the holy evangelists as followeth Caleb Eastgate aged seventy two years or thereabouts Swears that about 38 years agoe he saw John Clements acknowledge to Christopher Wise a Conveyance or deed of sale of a Tract of Land called Sheepshead point and that he well remembers M.r Vaughan (who was Clk of Talbott County at that time brought to the house of the said Christopher the said Deed after the Acknowledgement And he further on his oath Saith that the Said Clements had (before) sold the s.d Land to one Christopher Peck who not being able or willing to pay for the said Land twas afterwards sold to the Said Wise who paid the said Peck 2800.ℓ Tobacco |
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