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Charles County, Maryland Land Records 1806-1808; Liber IB-7 {Abstract by Mike Marshall}; Page 326.
At the request of Samuel Turner Sr., Amos Chunn, Robert Herbert, Lydia Herbert and Deborah Chunn the following Bond was recorded April 15, 1807
Maryland, Charles County, Sct; We Samuel Turner Sr., Amos Chunn, Robert Herbert and Lydia Herbert his wife, and Deborah Chunn relict of Zachariah Chunn, deceased are held and firmly bound each to the other in the penal sum of 500 dollars current money for the payment of which well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves and each of our heirs executors and administrators firmly and severally by these presents this November 24, 1806.
Whereas a dispute has arisen of a tract of land called "Partnership" in which Samuel Turner Sr., Amos Chunn, Robert Herbert and wife Lydia Herbert, in behalf of the heirs of Nathaniel Cohill, and Deborah Chunn in behalf of Zachariah Chunn's heirs are all respectively interested and whereas Samuel Turner Sr., and Deborah Chunn relict of Zachariah Chunn have lately had a commission from Charles County court in order to mark and bound the said tract of land but they as well as the other parties concerned finding that the establishing of the said boundaries will be attended with more trouble and expense then the land in dispute will justify and being willing and desirous to settle said dispute as well to prevent and avoid any future trouble and expense and to keep up the peace and friendship which ought to subsist among neighbors do hereby agree jointly and eventually to fix the said beginning at the place where John Frederick Augustus Priggs surveyor of the State of Maryland for confiscated landed property and other surveyors have always run from as the beginning of said "Partnership" and when they have now fixed a stone in the earth as a permanent boundary. Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Samuel Turner Sr., Amos Chunn, Robert Herbert and wife Lydia Herbert and Deborah Chunn relict of Zachariah Chunn they and each of their heirs will forever hereafter stand to abide by and be satisfied with the beginning boundary above specified fixed and agree on then and in that case the above of obligation to be null and void signed Samuel Turner Sr., Amos Chunn, Robert Herbert, Lydia Herbert, Deborah Chunn in the presence of and acknowledged before Samuel Amery, Walter Dyson
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
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