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Provincial Court Land Records, 1719-1723
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       to which he this Deponent Replyed that he believed so because they
       had been near Neighbours If he this Deponent would Sell his Right to a
       Tract of Land containing about three or four hundred acres of land
       lying in the af.d county of New Castle which the af.d John Scott held by Deed
       of Conveyance for the same to him from the af.d Edward Green as
       appeared by the Records of the aforesaid county of New Castle where the
       Said Deed was Registred & To this the said Deponent replyed that he never
       before then so much as heard Mention of any Land held by his Father
       the said John Scott from the Said Edward Greene   But the said VBebber
       Reparteed that there was a Tract Recorded as af.d but that it was
       Mightily Entangled And Yet if the Said Deponent would Sell the same he
       the said Vanbebber would give him five pounds PenSylvania Money
       for his Right of the said Tract whether he recovered the same or no
       with promise of a greater sum upon Recovery thereof to which
       the s.d Deponent consented and took the said Van Bebbers Obligation
       for performance of the same as he the said Deponent thought (being
       illiterate) And he the Said Deponent Signed an Instrument of writing
       which he took to be only an assignment for three of or four hundred
       acres of land as af.d to the said Vanbebber for that the said Van Bebber
       pretended the same to him this Deponent who trusted to his honesty
       But he the said Deponent being afterwards informed that the s.d
       Tract contained 2500 Acres of Land had the Records of New Castle
       County af.d searched on which was found Registred A Deed for two
       thousand five hundred Acres of Land from Edw.d Green af.d to the
       said John Scott of which he this Deponent obtained a Copy The said
       Deponent further Deposeth that afterwards enquiring of the said
       Vanbebber the reason of his imposing on him this Deponent in
       affirming the said Tract to contain ^but^ three or four hundred acres
       when the same contained 2500.a he the said Van Bebber answered that
       it was true there was so Many Acres in the s.d Tract but that the same
       was indebted about one hundred one hundred pounds Quit Rent and
       another time talking of the same Matter the said Van Bebber told
       this Deponent that it was true the said Tract contained 2500 acres
       but that it was all (Save sixty comprehended in his the said
       Van Bebbers Mannour) And further this Deponent Saith that
       some time in the Year 1722 M.r Stephen Knight read the af.d Copy
       from the Records of said Deed as aforesaid in the hearing of


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