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Sadsbury. — The township of Saclsbury, by the county 

 Ime at the moimtam which divides Octoraro and Pequea, 

 thence westerly along the said mountain to the north- 

 west corner of John Kyle's land, thence by said land to 

 the south-west corner, and from thence south 200 

 perches, thence east to Octoraro, thence up the said 

 county line, and along the said line to said place of 

 beginning. 



Martock. — The township of INIartock, beginning at 

 the mouth of Muddy run, thence up Sasquehanah to 

 Pequea, thence up Pequea to the mouth of Great Beaver 

 creek, thence up the said creek to Sadsbmy line, thence 

 by the said line to John Kyle's corner aforesaid, thence 

 by Drumore township to the place of beginning. 



Conostoga. — The township of Conostoga, begin- 

 ning at the mouth of Pequea, thence up Sasquehanah,. 

 to said mouth of Conestogoe creek, thence up the said 

 creek to the mouth of Mill creek, thence by a direct line 



his wife, e:^erted herself to alienate his affections from his son,, 

 by insinuating that he was not his lawful child. She succeeded 

 to get him placed from home, at a school in Dublin. In No- 

 vember, 1727, Lord Altham died ; and his brother Richard 

 wishing to possess the estate and title, took measures to get rid 

 erf' his nephew, James, by liaving him entered on board of an 

 American vessel which sailed from Dublin in April, 1728. He 

 was landed at Philadelphia, then in his thirteenth year, and 

 sold as a redemptioner! and actually served out twelve years 

 of his time in rough labor, when a seeming accident, in the 

 year 1740, brought him to such acquaintances as led, in the 

 next year to his return home. The case was as follows : — Two 

 Irishmen, John and William Broders, travelling the Lancaster 

 road in 1740, stopped at the house near the forty mile stone, 

 where James was in service with an old German. These coun- 

 trymen entering into conversation perepived that they were 

 severally from Dumaine, in the county of Wexford, and that 

 James Annesly was the son of Arthur. The two Broders vol- 

 unteered to g.0 back to Ireland, and testify to the discovery, 



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