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Charles County Court, Court Record, 1746-1747
Volume 862, Page 80   View pdf image
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(80)                         June Court Anno Domini 1747                 

Charles County 24th May 1747
                                                       The Deposition of John Farthing aged
       Sixty years Who being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God Declares
       that about Twenty five years ago James Thompson Came with this Deponant to
       a Poplar tree by which he Now stands (Which Poplar stands Closs by a swamp Near
       the head of Swansons Creek & Closs by the main Road side that leads to the head of
       said Creek) & told him that the said tree was the beginning Tree of Massons Land
       Which the said Masson sold to M.r Plater & further the sd Deponant saith not
       and the said John Farthing further declares that the same day the said James Thompson
       shewed him the said Poplar came with him within a hundred yards of the Ridge where
       he Now stands and told him that on the said Ridge there stood a bounded oak of
       Massons Land and further this Deponant Saith not                            his
                                                                                                       John F Farthing
                                                                                                               mark


Charles County 24th May 1747
                                                       The Deposition of Thomas Lawson aged forty
       one years who being sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God Declares that he was
       told about Twenty years ago (But don't remember by whom) that the Poplar tree mentioned in
       John Farthings Deposition was a bound tree of Callertons land and further this
       Deponant saith Not
                                                                                        Thomas Lawson

Charles County ss.t
                               We the subscribers do hereby Certifie to the Worshipfull Justices
       of the County aforesaid that Pursuant to the Commission hereunto Annexed to us
       directed after every thing Requisite being Performed according to Law We Examined
       all such Evidences as came before us Relating to the bounds of the Land mentioned
       in the said Commission and Reduced the same into Writing as may appear by the
       hereunto annexed  Given under our hands & Seals the 24th May Annoque
       Domini 1747
                                                                                              George Maxwell   (SS)

                                                                                                    John Estep      (SS)


              Be it Remembered that Pursuant to an order of Court holden
       at Charles Town on the Second Tuesday in November last Commission Issued
       Returnable here &C.a  To Examine Evidences touching the bounds of a Tract of Land lying
       in the said County in Possession of Alexander Smith Hawkins in the Words following Vizt

Charles County ss      Charles Absolute Lord and Propry of the Provinces of Maryland
       and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &C.a  To M.r John Winter Captain Benjamin Douglass
       Mr Lemuel Chunn and John Hanson Jun Gentleman
                                                                                                            Whereas Alexander Smith
       Hawkins is Seized of a Tract or Parcel of Land called Moretown lying in the said County
       on the Tenth day of March being in the Thirty Second year of our Dominion &C.a  Prefer his
       Certain Petition in Writing to our Court that is to say to our County Court held at Charles
       Town in and for the said County on the day aforesaid before Robert Hanson Gent and
       his Associates then and Still our Justices within our County aforesaid &C.a for
                                                                                                                      (Commission)


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Charles County Court, Court Record, 1746-1747
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