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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 649   View pdf image
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           Depositions of John Stevenses Land in Dorchester Co.ty

       The Deposition of John Lunn Aged Fifty Nine Yeares
       or thereabouts Sworn Saith That ab.t six and thirty Yeares or
       more since he in Company w.th M.r Thomas Taylor then surv.r
       of Dorchest.r County & Samuell Mellington & others
       surveyed a Tract of Land for the said Mellington upon
       Blackwater River by the Name of Mellington Happ Cont.d
       as he then understood One hundred Acres  And this Dep.t
       further saith That he bounded the first Bounded Tree
       upon the said Land w.ch he beleives is since perrished &
       that the same did stand upon a point of Land by the s.d
       River side where a Red Oake is now Bounded in the
       p.rsence of severall Evidences and he further saith not

Septemb.r 29.th 1709      Jurat Corum nobis         Hu Eccleston
                                                                            John Rawlings


       The Depocon of Samuell Mellington Aged seventy Yeares
       or thereab.ts Sworn Saith That about thirty six Yeares since
       he tooke up a peice of Land upon Blackwater River by the
       Name of Mellingtons happ Containeing One Hundred Acres
       more or less  And this Dep.t further saith That the first
       bounded Tree of the said Land stood upon a point by the
       River Side where a red oake is now Bounded in the p.rsence
       of severall Evidences and he further saith not

Septemb.r 29.th 1709      Jurat coram nobis       Hu Eccleston
                                                                         John Rawlings


       Wee the Subscribed do hereby certifye That in Obedience to a
       Comission to Us directed out of the Court of Chancery of this
       Province bearing date the 2.d day of Septemb.r 1709 Wee did
       this day meet upon a parcell of Land called Mellingtons happ
       adjacent to a percell of Land called Paris and there before Us a
       certaine John Lunn and Samuell Mellington did upon their
       Corporall Oate Oathes by us to them administred by force
       of the s.d Comcon depose as by the above written Depocons is
       sett forth & Expresed as Wittness our hands & seals the 29.th day
       of Sep.ber An.o Dom 1709                        Hu Eccleston  (Seale)
                                                                         John Rawlling  (Seale)


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