John Greer's 1743 Deposition

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"On July 25th, 1743, before a land commission held to determine the bounds of a tract called 'Thompson's Lott' laid out for George Thompson October 26th, 1685, John Greer, aged 55 years, deposed as follows: 'that thirty years ago or therabouts Mr. John Taylor who then lived on the south side of Gunpowder River near the ferry and afterwards went for Carolina and if now living is seventy-eight years of age or therabouts being in the woods together the Said John Taylor shewed this deponent a bounded black or red oak which this deponent now sheweth unto us fairly bounded on three sides...the aforesaid oak stands on the east side of a swampy drean descending into Hornigold Run (now called Honeygo Run--W.B.M.) by a small grasey glade and a small distance to the westward of the Piney Glade and to the south west of the Garrettson Road...'." (Land Commissions, Liber H. W. S. No. 4. f. 78 et seq.) [Source]