List, Thought some of you might be interested in the following. Shirley Middleton Moller PGLR TT:190 Memorandum That on the special Petition of John Beall (son of Robert) Preferred to the Justices of Our County Court on the fourth Tuesday in August in the Thirteenth year of Our Dominion & ca for Land Commission to examine Evidences to prove and perpetuate the memory of the bounds of the tract of land called God Father's Gift in Prince George's Co., MD Gabrail Hughes being next Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God at a white Oak Sump Standing in a levil Bottom as above described put his hand on the Said Stump and declared that he this deponant was Present when Capt. James Edmonston Shewed Coll George Beall The above mentioned Tree which was then Standing and Told both Coll George Beall and this Deponant also that the said Tree was the begining Tree of a Tract of land Called God fathers Gift Wee then went up the Paint Branch to the Tree which Coll George Beall proved from the Same information which this Deponant after being Sworn as above put his hand on and declared that James Edmonston (the same day) told him it was the Second bound- -dary of a Tract of land Called God fathers Gift Wee then went further up the said Paint Branch to a white Oak Standing in a small Branch that runs into Said Branch which this deponant put his hand on and after being Sworn as above declared that Capt. James Edmonston the Same day that he shewed him the other Two Trees shewed him that also and Told him it was the fourth Tree of God fathers Gift and that Coll George Beall persuaded him this deponant to put his arms round the sd Tree when Capt James Edmonston Immediately took hold of his hands and held them while Coll George Beall whiped him at the Tree and farther this deponant Sayeth not 27th day of March 1764 (smm: Coll George Beall was on this day present when Gabriel Hughes swore his knowledge of the tract God fathers Gift.)