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Provincial Court Land Records, 1770-1774
Volume 726, Page 245   View pdf image
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       To all to whom these Presents shall come I Colin Dunlop Esquire Lord Provost and
       Chief Magistrate of the City of Glasgow in North Britain In Pursuance of an Act of Parliament
       made and passed in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the second intitled
       an Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in his Majesty's Plantations & Colonies in America
       Do hereby certify that on the Day of the Date of these Presents John Rowand and John Luke both
       of the City of Glasgow aforesaid Merchants (being both Persons well known and worth of good
       Credit) personally came and appeared before me and by solemn oath which they then severally
       took before me upon the holy Evangelists of Almighty God they did solemnly and sincerely
       declare, testify and depose that the the said deponents were present & did see the
       within named Robert Dreghorn, Matthew Orr, James Simson, James Brown & James Corbett
       sign, seal and execute as their proper Act and Deed the Instrument of Writing or Power of
       Attorney within written & that the Names Robert Dreghorn, Matthew Orr, James Simson, James
       Brown & James Corbett Jun.r thereunto set as the Parties executing are of the proper Hand Writings
       of the said Robert Dreghorn Matthew Orr, James Simson James Brown and James Corbett
             respectively and that the Names John Rowand and John Luke thereunto set as the
       subscribing witnesses are of the proper Hand Writing of these Deponents respectively

             L.S.                  In Faith & Testimony whereof I the said Lord Provost & the said
       Deponents have hereunto set our Hands and I have also caused the common Seal
       of the said City of Glasgow to be hereto put & affixed at Glasgow aforesaid the ninth Day
       of May in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and seventy one

                   Colin Dunlop                      Veritatem præmissorum                 John Rowand
                                                             Attestor John Buchanan Jun.r
                                                                                 Notary Publick            John Luke

                                  Recorded the 23.d Day of September 1771


X.d
       To all to whom these Presents shall come Know You that We James Scott
       Junior and John Brown youngest Merchants in Glasgow in that Part of Great Britain
       called Scotland, Partners in Trade under the Firm and Title of John Brown & Company
       Merchants there for sundry good Causes us hereunto moving Have made ordained constituted
       and appointed And by these Presents Do make ordain constitute and appoint
       M.r Alexander Hamilton at Piscataway Potomack River in the Province of Maryland Merchant
       to be our true & lawful Attorney for us & in our Names & for our own proper Use
       and Behoof, to ask, demand, sue for, recover and receive of and from all & every person & persons
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