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March Court
Anno Dom 1746
(9 And William Farthing sho.d take up Penny farthing that was so poor and Covenant this Good land that Billy Carter and we have Taken up which is so much Better To which her Father answered Girl if old M.r Wilkinson had Lived there would been no Land Here to have been taken taken up I am afraid to speak for fear the Birds of the Air should Tell this place whereon you live And Billy Carters said Design and all Penny farthing is in Priors Cleave and that old [illegible] upon the Gravelly Nole above Billy Carters said Design is one of the outward Bounded trees of Priors Cleave and farther this Deponent saith that the old tree upon a Gravelly Nole above Billy Carters New Design by which she now Stands and where she was sworn she believes is the Place and tree that her father spoke of And farther this Deponent saith not January 10.th 1746/7 her Rachel Hurdle mark The Deposition of Robert Hurdle aged Thirty three years or thereabouts who being sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God declares that he heard Old William Carter say divers times that the white oak that Is now dead and drawn by which he this deponent now stands And which is mentioned in Rachel Hurdles Deposition above was a bounded tree but of what Land he does not Remember that he ever heard him say and farther this Deponent saith not his Robert X Hurdle mark To the Worshipfull the Justices of Charles County Court We the subscribers in Obedience to And by Virtue of the Commission hereunto Annexed (haveing First in all things duely comply'd with the act of assembly In that case made and Provided) did meet the 19.th day of January last on the Land in the said Commission Mentioned when and where we took Rachel Hurdles Deposition above Mentioned and for farther Examination of witnesses we Gave farther notice according to Law and met again on (on) |
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