transcribed by Linda Boorom

Rec'd copy 2/17/03 from Maryland State Archives, Annapolis MD:
CHLR P#3, 59:614
The following copy, being all one paragraph, I have taken the liberty to seperate the different depositions to make them easier to read. I have attempted to leave spelling as in the original.

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August Court Anno Dom 1767
Hawkins and Randolph Morris Hawkins to Execute the within warrant
Danl Jenifer

James Carricoe aged Seventy years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty god Declares that about fifty years agoe Stood a bound post near a Road which leads from Benidict to Newport and in the Edge of an old field Called Gates’s old field which post peter Carricoe father of this Deoponant told him was a Boundary of Gates’s land and that after the post was Rotten and gone there was a Small white oake marked ~~ Standing in The Edge of the Said post Hole which tree John Gates Joseph Gates Peter Carricoe and Several others told him was the first Boundary of Gates Hope, maidstone and a tree of Hunts Venture James (his mark) Carricoe

Ignatius Hall aged fifty or their abouts being Sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty god being at the above Described place in Carricoes mentioned on James Carricoes Deposiation, Declares that about twenty years agoe Lawrence Sant and Peter Carricoe shewed him the said place and told him it was the Beginning of a tract of land Called maid Stone Ignatius Hall.

Margaret Carricoe aged fifty two years, or their abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty god being at the above Descrobed place in Carricoes Deposition Declares She was She was Shoed the Said place by her Husband Peter Carricoe and that he told her it was the beginning of two tracts of land the one Called maid Stone the other Gates’s Hope and that She has Been told the same by old Thomas Hunt Margaret (her mark) Carricoe

1767 Sept 28th Charles Love being Sworn on the holy Evangelists of almighty god Declares that about Six years agoe Peter Carricoe Showed him this Deponant a beech Standing near a small branch, and told him it was the first bound tree of old Thomas Hunts land Called Hunts Venture and the Said Carrico told this Deponant that a mumber of years before old Thomas Hunts brought with him many boys to this place and Declared the Said beech to be his beginning tree….Charles Love

Charles County We the Subscribers being Commifsioners appointed by the County Court aforesaid to Examine all Witnefses to us offered touching the memory of the Bounds of a tract of land Called Gates’s hope now in the Pofsefsion of George Huntees Laying in the county aforesaid having been first Qualified as appears on the back of the Commifsion hereunto annexed do Hereby Certifie that we have advertised our meating on the Said land twenty days before the Said day agreeable to which we met on the Said land took the Several Depositions here Contained In Witnefs whereby we have hereunto Set our hands and affixed our Seals this Twenty Eight day of September 1767

Hawkins {Sl}
Rdhs Hawkins {Sl}