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[edit] Related[edit] TranscriptionsDecember 1714 deposition - Charles Walker senior declares upon oath that being in company with Mareen Duvall senior, William Fowler, and several others when Mr. Ralph Crabb was desired by the Rev. Hall and Benjamin Duvall to take depositions to some bounded trees standing by or near the “Great Marsh” which might relate or touch their knowledge to the first bounded tree of a tract of land called “Howertons Range” that the said Mareen Duvall being present at a old bounded white oak standing now dead in Thomas Fowlers pasture near the “Great Marsh” the said Duvall bounded it by the order of his father Mareen Duvall heretofore of Anne Arundel County deceased when the said Duvall deceased got Capt. Hanslap to run the breath of the said land called “Howertons Range” from a tract of land called “Wilson’s Plains” the number of paces being out the said Mareen Duvall deceased ordered the said Mareen Duvall senior to look about for a bounded tree, but George Yates the surveyor being told by the said Mareen Duvall deceased in the presence of the said Mareen Duvall now senior, he need not look for any tree bounded for there never was one bounded before, on which the said Mareen Duvall deceased ordered the said Mareen Duvall senior to bound the white oak now the bounded tree and further sayith not (Charles Walker senior). Charles Walker aged about Forty Seven years being at the dead white oak said that sometime in December last he heard Mareen Duvall senior say that when his father with the surveyor run a line from his brother, Mareen’s tree near this place his father bid him look for a bounded tree of “Parrott’s Thicket” and the surveyor answered there never was one bounded, upon which his father pointing to this white oak now dead said, then boy go and bind that which accordingly he did. And the depondent thinks Mr. Taylor immediately called the company to take notice of what Mareen Duvall said. Then the commission adjourned till tomorrow morning at the place of the said oak. July the 30th 1719. Charles Walker aged about Forty Six years old being sworn as above declared he was present when the resurvey was had upon “Ample Grange” when Robert Hobbs swore to the above mentioned north most or last tree of “Essington” that this depondent thinks that the plum tree above mentioned standing in the very place where the stump of the tree which Hobbs proved and further sayith not. June 14th 1714.
[edit] Discussionin 1714 Charles gives his age as being about 46. In 1719 his age is given as about 47. This gives a range of DOB's for Charles between 1668 and 1672. |
