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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 848   View pdf image
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       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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