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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       Oath to the said Tree to the same purpose as above adding he was Confirmed thereto by
       the knowledge he had of the adjacent Land and Swamp and said the oftner he came on
       the place the more he was Confirmed that that was the Tree and no other and carrying
       us up the River about a hundred Yards to the Northward to another Tree that is Notched
       on four sides w.ch had been shown him by Rozer and William William Clarkson and did
       there positively declare as he was upon his oath that that was none of the Tree but the
       White Oake w.ch stands by the swamp side was the very Tree he caused to be bounded for
       the beginning Tree of the said Land he being then positive to the Ground that if that
       was not the very Tree he was sure and confident it did stand within Twenty or Twenty five
       paces of that Tree Neither to the Northward Eastward nor Southward but if any way to
       the Westward nearer the River all w.ch he declared upon oath and further yo.r Deponant
       saith not      Jn.o Norris


             William Dent
       Aged Thirty four years or thereabouts being sworn before us upon the Holy Evangelist saith
       that he was with M.r Notly Rozer Coll.o Jn.o Addison and sev.rall others the 11.th Day of X.ber
       1702 When M.r Rozer Caused M.r William Hutchison to Run out his Land Called Admireathorea
       and being brought to a bounded White White Oak that standeth near an
       Ashen Swamp by an Indian Cornfield w.ch Swamp is the fourth Swamp above the
       high point of land in the said Rozers Land now known and called by the Name of
       hollowing Point Where Coll.o Jn.o Addison demanded of Cap.t George Thompson
       who was the first Taker up of the ^s.d^ Land Called Admireathorea and being brought
       there an Evidence to testify the Bounds  Whether he thought that to be the first
       bound Tree and beginning of the aforesaid Tract of Land Who taking off his hatt &
       laying his hand on the s.d bound Tree did declare in the p.rsence of God Allmighty and
       as he hoped to Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven  That he did Really in his Conscience
       believe that to be the very Tree  But if it was not the same Tree he was Confident it
       did stand within Twenty or Twenty five paces of that Tree and if any way nearer the
       River  And being asked by Coll.o Jn.o Addison whether they crossed any Swamp in Running
       the first Course of the said Land Called the Admireathorea did answer that they Run
       a streight East North East Course neither travissing nor crossing any swamp but Run on
       firm dry Ground a little ascending to the second Tree being a White Oake and further
       saith not              the Mark of
                               William W D Dent


             William Glover
       Aged Twenty Eight Years or thereabouts being sworn before us upon the Holy Evangelist
       saith That Coll.o Jn.o Addison having obtained a Comission out of the high Court of
       Chancery to Sumon Cap.t George Thompson to give his Evidence of the Bounds of
       a Tract of Land Called Admireathorea now belonging to M.r Notly Rozer but first taken
       up by the said Cap.t George Thompson  Who being brought there an Evidence to the 23.d
       day of June 1702 my self with sev.rall others was p.rsent at a bounded white oake
       that standeth near an Ashen Swamp in an Indian field w.ch Swamp is
       the fourth swamp above a high point of Land in the said Notley Rozers Land
                                                                                                                      now


 
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