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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 879   View pdf image
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       Land called Trent Neck the Who deposeth & saith that near fifty years
       since he came into this Province and was sold a Serv.r to Major Thomas
       Trueman (at that time owner of the aforesaid Land) and that he lived
       seven or eight years upon the Said Land and that then and allways since
       to the best of his Remembrance a certain Place (or thereabouts) whereon
       M.r John Abbington had formerly made appear for Cattle was Deemed
       and Reconed the mouth of Trent Creeke but where the Penn was he's
       uncertain                                                                                 his
                                                                                              John O Burroughs
Aprill 9.th 1713      Jurat Coram Nobis                                          mark
                                                             Hen Pereg Jowles   (S)
                                                             Kenelm Cheseldyn   (S)


                         Roger Woolfords Depositions ab.t Land called Wolfsford

                By Virtue of a Comission but of the high Court of Chancery to us the subscribers
       Directed to Examine Evidences relating to the bounds of a Certain Tract of Land lying
       in Somersett County Containing seven hundred Acres called Wolfsford belonging to
       M.r Roger Wolford of Dorchester County Wee do hereby Certifye that on the 26.th day
       of March Anno Dm 1713  Came before us M.r John Bozman Sen.r and made oath
       upon the holy Evangelist and M.r Livin Denwood Sen.r who did solemnly attest & affirm
       which is what passes for an oath from the People called Quakers saith That whereas
       Formerly there was a debate concerning a Marked Tree standing upon the West Side of a
       Small Gutt which Divided the Tract of Land called Wolfsford belonging to M.r Roger
       Woolford Sen.r Containing seven hundred acres from a Tract of Land which was formerly
       surveyed for Cap.t William Thorne lying on the North Side of Morrocan River in Som.rsett
       County upon a Warrant of Resurvey which was made about forty Years agoe or
       thereabouts) to runn a Divisionall Lyne between the said Roger Woolfords Land called
       Wolfsford and Cap.t William Thornes Land which said Tree was shewn unto the Surveyor
       (M.r Francis Jenkins) by John Shippway and Owen Magrah who were then Present
       when the aforesaid Land was first surveyed for the abovesaid Wolford and saw the Tree
       when it was first Markt which is an old Gunn Stump Rotten on the Eastermost side
       of the Said Stump Where wee have caused a Squared Ceader Post Marked with three
       Notches on each Square to be affixed y.e better to ascertain the Posterity where y.e said Tree stood
                                                             Sam.l Worthington  (S)  John Jones  (S)


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