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848 Defendants Dep.s Francis Neale aged about sixty years on his Test says that Twenty seven years agoe or thereabouts John Edmondson having bought Mount hope of one Edgerton) Carryed him to the said Francis with on Joshua Baxter and divers others to a bounded oak Tree where Thomas Edmondson now beginns and from thence Runn out the said Land & he further says that to his knowledge there was not any other Tree deemed the first Tree of Mount hope at that time & that since there has been severall surveyed made from that Tree He further Declares ok his Test Francis Neale that when Andrew Skinner was brought to prove that Tree to be the first Tree of My Lords Mannor Col Vincent Low who was then there told him after he had sworne that his oath and the Record did not agree And further the Said Francis says not Fra Neale This Test taken before us y.e 25.th Feb.ry 1711 R Ungle Tho Collier Thomas Sockwell aged about forty one years on his oath says that he has heard John Barker John Whittington W.m Cothrope W.m Troth & other old men say who are now deceased severall times say that the Tree Thomas Edmondson beginns at for Mount hope was the first Tree of the said Land and further says that about Twenty Nine Years since there was a Beavor Damm a little below the Mill very Near the place the Defend.ts North East line Runns to And further saith not Thomas Sockwell Feb.ry 25.th 1711 Jura Coram Nobis R Ungle Tho Collier John Hendrix aged about forty one years on his oath says That he was a Juryman on a Survey between Col Smithson & William Troth about fourteen years agoe and that the Tree Thomas Edmondson beginns at was shewn to the Jury for the first Tree of Mount hope and that the Jury beleived it to be so And |
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