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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 763   View pdf image
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             Henry Wrights Depositions about a Tract of Land Called Smiths Ridge

       Maryland fs

       By Virtue of a Comission out of her Maj.tys high Court of Chancery to me Col
       William Coursey directed Dated bearing Date the 10.th day of this present
       month of October to Examin Evidences touching the purchase and payment
       of a parcell of Land part of a Tract of Land called Smiths Ridge lying in Queen
       Anns County and bought by one Henry Price of one Robert Atkison Henry
       Wright who said out the said Comission hath produced to me the following
       Evidences whose Depositions touching the premises are as followeth

             Richard Moore of the said County Aged about thirty Nine Years
       being sworne upon the holy Evangelist Deposeth that about Twenty two or
       Twenty three Years past this Depon.t then Liveing with his father in Law
       one Henry Price he this Depon.t well knoweth and was present at the said
       Henry Prices Purchaseing of one Robert Atkinson Three hundred Acres of
       Land which he understood to be part of a Tract of Land called Smiths Ridge lying
       in the Said County the which he the said Henry Price after sold to Maj.r John
       Hawkins and one Henry Wright and that the purchase of the ^said^ Land was Nine
       thousand pounds of Tobacco and that this Depon.t saw at the said time of
       purchase the said Henry Price pass his Bill to the said Rob.t Atkison for the
       said Tobacco and also the said Robert Atkison past his bond to the said
       Henry Price for the makeing over the said Land and further that this
       Depon.t was present and did see the said Rob.t Atchison marke bound and
       Lay out to the said Henry Price the said Land sold as afd and farther
       saith not                                                                 the      Marke
    October 22.d 1711         Will Coursey               of Ric.d M Moore
       Jurat Coram Me

          Henry Williams of the said County Aged about forty three years  being sworne
       upon the holy Evangelist Deposeth and sayeth that about Twelve or thirteen
       years past he this Depon.t then living at the house of one Henry Price this
       Depon.ts father in Law he this Depon.t hath heard the said Henry Price
       often say that he had paid all for his Land which was the Land he then
       lived on and which he after sold to Maj.r John Hawkins and one Henry Wright
                                                                                                                (and)


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