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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 753   View pdf image
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                   Coll.o Contees Depo.s about y.e bounds of a Tract of Land Called Roizers
                Refuge

       Charles County fs
                                     Att a white oake on the East Side of Port Tobacco Creek binding
       upon a Marsh and on the North Side of the mouth of a Little Branch Jan.ry 8.th 1707/8
      
                The oath of Nicholas Cooper aged Sixty Years and upwards Viz.t as followeth
      
       The Came the bovesaid Nicholas Cooper and then and there made oath upon the holy Evangelist
       that about thirty Seven or Eight years agoe or thereabouts this Depon.t was one of
       the Chaine Carriers at the Surveying and Runing out of the devideing Line of a Tract of
       Land Containing two thousand acres  Between M.r Benj.a Rozier and M.r W.m
       Chandler Roziers Refuge being the one part thereof whereon the Deponent now standeth
       M.r Richard Edglin was the Survey.r and to the best of his knowledge Depon.ts Knowledge the first
       Beginning Tree of the fore said Deviding Line was then a bounded white oake & stood
       on the place as abovesaid whereon the Depon.t now Standeth at a white oake or
       within a Yard of or two thereof there the Said Survey.r Begunn is first Course for the
       Deviding Line of the afd two thousand Acres of Land and the foresaid M.r Rozier
       and M.r Chandler was there present and then and there Mutually did agree & assent
       to the Running of the foresaid deviding Line of the abovesaid two thousand Acres
       of Land and further this Deponent saith not as Wittness the Deponents hand &
       Seale the day and Year above Written                                       his
       Wittness Phillip Lynes Edward Phillpott Jn.o Manning   Nicholas N Cooper   (S)
                                                                                                       marke

             By Virtue of a Comission from the Chan.ry Court of Annapolis to me Directed Bearing
       date y.e 26.th day of December 1707 for the Examining Evidences touching the Bounds of
       a Certain Tract of Land called Roziers Refuge Containg a 1000 Thousand Acres
      
             In Pursuance to which ^s.d^ Comission I have called before me Nicholas Cooper
          Nominated and produced by the honble Col.o John Contee and him the said Cooper I have
       Examined and Sworne who hath herewith given his Corporall Oath according to the
       Contence in Manner and forme aboves.d under his hand and seale  In Testimony
       of which I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day & Year first above written
                                                                                           Joseph Manning   (S)


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