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416) May it Please Yo.r Honour According to a Comicon to us Directed out of yo.r Court of Chancery Wee did cause to come before us on the fourth day of October in y.e Year 1698 Charles Hollingsworth and Richard Ratcliff To give y.e bounds of a tract of Land called Maiden Point in the possession of W.m Worrowlow which accordingly they did carry us to a bounded White Oak fallen downe a banck w.ch was y.e first bounded tree of y.e afd Tract of land as upon there Test they did Declare and as by there Test more largely doth appeare The aforesaid Ratcliff did carye us to a Second tree w.ch he said was the breadth that M.r Writhers and M.r Hemsley did run when he was with them but the name of the land he did not know wee did bound another White Oak w.ch stood duetily to that fallen downe y.e Banck About Tenn Yards upon the land M.r James Benton w.ch is concerned in y.e said tract of Land being p.rsent with us wee have as Near as wee could observed everry p.rticuler to us directed and doe assure yo.r Hono.r by the Inclosed Tests this to be the true bounds of the aforesaid land Wittness Our hands and seales this 15.th day of Feb.ry 1698 filed May 20 1699 Recorded by Me Hugh Sherwood (seal) John Freeman Regist.r Rich.d Feddeman (seale) Depositions for Ralph Melburn March y.e 3.d 1698/9 Came before us Phillip Connaway Sen.r Aged Seventy Nine Yeares or Thereabouts and took his oath upon y.e holy Evangelist that about Thirty Two Yeares Agoe he lived with Jenkin Price at his plantation at y.e Entrance of y.e North west side of Pocomoak River And the above said Jenkin Price was then Survey.r and I Phillip Connaway further saith y.t I desired of Jenkin Price to lay me out a peice of land that lay between y.e said Jenkin Prices said Plantacon and a Tract of land formly laid out by y.e said Survey.r for Micham Thomas and y.e said Price y.e Survey.rs Answ.r was I can in Noe way doe soe for I have already laid the said land out for my Kinsman W.m Price and is called by the name of Prices grove And to my knowledge beginning at a markt White Oak standing in a little Hammock by a Gutt side joineing to the Riv.r called Prices grove as afd And I Henry Scholfeild in company with M.r Sam.ll Hazlewood Jn.o Brittingham and James Henderson being then p.rsent & by the s.d Phillip Connaway volluntarilly shewed the said bounden white oak to us & affirmed the same to be the said Tree of the said Prices grove as afd And y.e said Phillip Connaway being an Inhabitt.r of Virginia and Maryland abo.t fifty Yeares And further saith Not Taken & sworne before us George Layfeild (seal) Recorded by Me filed May 18 1699 John Freeman Henry Sholfeild (seal) Regist.r |
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