Deposition of Thomas Treadway – 1774
Donated by Jared Treadway
Certificate No. 9725
Baltimore Land Records
The deposition of Thomas Tredway, aged seventy four years or thereabouts, deposeth and sayeth that he never knew anything about where any of the bounds of a tract of land called Elbert Field was, but that he has heard often of a tract of land of that name, but never heard whereabouts of the said land lay and he the said Tredway says he has lived in the neighbourhood within two or three miles of this place from the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighteen until about four years since, that he moved further off and that he lived at the house of Antill Deaver some time as a boarder and that he never heard, he said, Antill Deaver say any thng about the bounds of said land to the best of his knowledge and that he lived with John Webster on the land called Best Endeavor and worked for him in the year Seventeen Hundred and Nineteen and been often their since he remembers a tobacco house belonging to said John Webster standing now the place where we now are, and that he was acquainted with the said Antill Deaver from his first coming into the county until the said Antil Deavers death and further sayeth not.