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484) Depositn.s About Lands For Coll Jn.o Addison Filed 1.st 1702/3 1702 9b.r y.e 20 Charles Jones Att or ab.t 9b.r There were several people att Potomack River side in Ord.r to see M.r Natly Rozers Land surv.rd & I see M.r George Thompson Lay his hand upon A certain White oak & the s.d To the best of his Judgm.t or und.rstanding This is The Begining Bound Tree or w.thin twenty Five Paces of The Land or Place As Wittness my hand Charles Jones Sworn Before us Robert Wade Jn.o Hawkins Jn.o Middleton Aged twenty five years or thereabouts Being Sworn Before us upon the Holy Evangelist Saith That Coll Jno Addison Having obtain.d A Comission out of the High Co.rt of Chancery To Sumons Capt George Thompson to give his Evidence to the Bounds of a Tract of Land Call.d admination Now betraying to M.r Natly Rozer but first taken up by the said Cap.t George Thompson who being brought there an Evidence y.e 23.d Day of June 1702 my self with sev.rall others was p.rsent at a bounded White oak that standeth near an ashen Swamp in an Indian Field w.th Swamps fourth swamp above a high poynt of Land in the said Rogers Land now known was called by the name of the hollowing Poynt where Coll.o Addison demanded of Cap.t Thompson whether he thought that to be the first bounded Tree and begining of the aforesaid Land Who after having his Oath duely administred by the Commissioners appointed did lay his hand on the bounded White oak above expressed; and did there declare upon oath That he did Really in his Conscience believe that to the very Tree and being allso asked by Coll.o Addison whether they Crossed any Swamp in Running the |
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