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15) and Ireland King defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Forty Eight Benj.a Seal Nicholson Samuel Seal Nicholson On the Back of the aforegoing Power of Att.ry was thus Endorsed Viz.t Signed Sealed and Delivered by the within named Benjamin Nicholson (the Parchment being Legally stampt) in the Presence of Us James Todd Luke Currie Signed Sealed and Delivered by the within named Samuel Nicholson (the Parchment being Legally stampt) in the Presence of Us To which aforegoing Letter of Attorney were Annext Ra Bradley the following Affidavits and Certificates Viz.t Tho.s Thoresby Ralph Bradley of Stockton upon Tease in the County of Durham and Kingdom of Great Britain Gentleman maked Oath that he was present and did see Samuel Nicholson of Stockton afs.d Doctor in Physick Sign Seal and deliver as his Act and Deed in due form of Law the Original Deed Poll hereunto Annexed purporting to be a Letter of Attorney from the said Samuel Nicholson and Benjamin Nicholson of the Borough of Berwick upon Tweed in the same Kingdom Brewer to his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq.r Governor of Maryland therein named to and for the Uses Intents and Purposes therein mentioned And that Thomas Thoresby was also present at the Execution of the said Letter of Attorney by the said Samuel Nicholson and did see the same duly Executed as afs.d And that the Names Ra Bradley and Tho.s Thoresby set and Subscribed as Witnesses to the Execution thereof by the said Samuel Nicholson are of the proper ^hand^ Writing of the said Thomas Thoresby and of this Deponent Respectively Ra Bradley To all to whom these Presents shall come I Ralph Whitley Esquire Mayor of the Borough of Stockton in the County of Durham and Kingdom of Great Britain in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second intitled an Act for the more Easy Recovery of Debts in his Majestys Plantations and Colonies in America do hereby Certifie that on the day of the date ^here^of Personally came and appeared before me Ralph Bradley of Stockton afs.d Gentleman being a Person well known and Worthy of good Credit and by Solemn Oath which he then took before me upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God did Solemnly and Sincerely declare Testifie and depose to be true the several matters and things mentioned and Contained in the Original Affidavit hereunto annexed In Faith and Testimony whereof I the said Mayor have caused the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Borough to be hereunto put and Affixed and the Letter of Attorney mentioned and Referred to in and by the said Affidavit to be hereunto also Annexed dated at Stockton afs.d the fourth day of February in the twenty Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and forty Eight R Whitley May.r Seal |
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