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355) 364 To all Christian People to whom these p.rsents shall come I Richard Norman of Marble head in the County of Essex in the Collony of Massachusett in New Engl.d of the Age of Fifty yeares or there abouts doe testifie that John Connant now Resident in New England & bound for Virginia the said John Connant I knew him of a child & was a near Neighbour to his Father Roger Connant and his wife Elizabeth the daughter and the only daughter of Thomas Weston by comon repute and that the said John Connant was born of the aforesaid Elizabeth when in lawfull wedlock with the said Roger Connant as can be known by neighbours living near and was bred up as her sonn & lived with her as her son untill y.e said Roger and his wife Elizabeth went for Ireland and further faith^full^ the said Elizabeths Father was that Thomas Weston that used formerly to trade in Virginia & soe to New England and afterwards went home for Bristoll and there dyed as by credible and comon report and further that I have been in Maryland in Virginia in West S.t Maryes and likewise in some part of York River in both which places there was Land ^comonly^ said to be and called by the name of the said Thomas Weston his Land or Plantation & understood to be the same Thomas Weston aforesaid and further that I never heard of any other child the said Thomas Weston had but only the said Elizabeth but have often heard the said Elizabeth say her Father had noe other child but her Richard Norman came before me 2 day of Decemb 1674 & made his psonall oath to what is above written before me William Hathorn Asist in the Mathachucetts Moses Maverick aged about 64 yeares saith I Moses Maverick of Marble head doe testifie to all [above] written saving only the latter part of haveing a personall knowledge of any plantations of the said Westons but this I can testifie that the [within] said John Connants Mother (viz.t) Elizabeth the wife of the said Roger Connant & the daughter of the said Thomas Weston that the when a Maiden lived with me and marryed to the said Roger Connant out of my house & that she had a Letter and orders from her Mother after her Father Thomas Westons decease to look after her Fathers Means in Virginia or Maryland and accordingly she sent and did receive some Tobacco from Virginia in part or on the accompt of her said Fathers Estate there viz.t the said Thomas Weston Taken upon oath 23 of 10.th Mon 1674 Moses Maverick before me W.m Hathorn Assist Francis Johnson aged Eighty Yeares or thereabouts testifieth and saith that att my first coming to Marble head in New England which was about Fourty Yeares since I knew and was well acquainted with Elizabeth Weston the Reputed daughter of M.r Thomas Weston of the Citty of London in the Kingdome of England Merch.t who was then gone on a voyage from New England aforesaid to Virginia and that he left the said Elizabeth all the house of M.r Moses Maverick of Marble head aforesaid Jur cor me 27 Sep.t 1684 S Bradstreet Gov.r |
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1676-1700
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