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Rented it to the said Owens in Witness We have hereunto
Set our hands this 9th day of September Anno Domini 1748.

the Indians Marks
Hoping Sam his Mark Nancy her mark James Cohonk
Abram his Mark Tom Bishop his Mark Thomas Owens
John Quash his Mark Mulbury his Mark
Presillah her Mark Jamme his Mark
John Pike his Mark
Sarah Bishop her Mark
Testis Benjamin Huntt
Testis W^m Lecompte

Dorchester County ss^t
The Deposition of Thomas Owings Aged Twenty Eight
years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangels of
Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he well knows that
Philemon Lecompte nor his People has not Cut Timber on
the Indians Lands (when got into Staves and Boards) to the
Value of fifty pounds Current Money every year for this
Nine years last past & further this Deponent Saith not
Tho^s Owens
21 June 1754 Sworn before
Henry Hooper, J. Eccleston, W^m Murray

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Dorchester County ss^t
The Deposition of Isaac Adams of the County af^d Aged
forty three years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy
Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith That he has
Several times seen Philemon Lecomptes People with a Cart
on the Indians Land in order to Cart Staves but that he never
see any Staves in the Cart except once which he believes were
got on the said Indians Lands and that he has Sundry times
Seen large Quantities of Timber on the said Lands ready
Cutt and Mauled for Staves (and that it was Currently re-
ported) were Cut by the said Philemon Lecompte and his
People and fur this Deponent Saith not.
Isaac Adams.

Taken and Sworn to the 13^th day of July 1754
before Henry Hooper, James Eccleston, W^m Murray

Dorchester County ss^t
The Deposition of Edward Newton of the County af^d aged
forty Eight years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy
Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he has
seen Philemon Lecompte & his People at Divers times within
this twenty years last past Cut large Quantities of Timber on

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