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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 881   View pdf image
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       Hooper aged about seaventy Yeares or thereabouts and being by us upon
       the holy Evangelist sworne upon his oath Doth Say that about forty
       two or forty three years last past being in Company with M.r Phillip
       Shapley then Deputy Survey.r of the aforesaid County (and divers other
       persons) who were then assisting the said Phillip Shapley to Survey a
       Certain Tract of Land for one Richard Hooper brother to the Said Depon.t living
       on the East Side of Cheasapeak and on the East Side of Chiconocomoco Creek in the
       aforesaid County containing six hundred and fifty acres called and knowne by
       the name of Towne neck That the said Deponent lodging with the Rest of
       the Company over night at the Indian Queens Cabin did early the next
       Morning goe out with his Gunn to the Creek side about one hundred & fifty
       Yards below the Landing Place now of Thomas Dias did there kill a swann During
       which time of his absence the Rest of his Company was surveying the aforesaid
       Land and that to the best of his knowledge about one hundred and Eighty or
       two hundred yards below him he did here them marke the first bounded Tree
       of the said Land

                And the Said Depon.t being by us asked whether he knew that Land on
       which Thomas Dias now lives and other Land adjacent thereto to be the afores.d
       Tract of Land called Towne Neck whom on his oath doth solemnly say that
       the Land on which Thomas Dias lives and other adjacent Lands thereto is y.e
       Land then taken up and surveyed as aforesaid for his brother Richard Hooper
       And the said Depon.t being on the Land and at the place aforesaid about Eighteen
       Years agoe in Company with Col Charles Hutchins late of this County and then
       knew very well that to be the same Land aforesaid so surveyed by Phillip Shapleigh
       for his said brother Richard Hooper

                And the Said Deponent being on the Land and at the place aforesaid yesterday
       being the Eighth day of December Anno Dm 1712 in Company with M.r
       Thomas Hicks Jun.r M.r Richard Wills Henry Dias Thomas Tackett John Pursell
       and divers other People did there and then publickley and solemnly declare that
       he knew very well that to be the Land aforesaid by the Creeke comeing up boldly
       to the first Land and by a Small Island of Wood below the Same Landing in the
       Marsh            Taken before us the day and year above him written      Wittness our
       hands and seales                                                                     Tho Ennalls   (S)
                                                                                                      Tho Hicks      (S)

                  By Virtue of a Comission out of the high Court of Chancery to us directed dated the
       sixteenth day of July Anno Dm 1712 to Examine Evidences touching the bounds


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