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881 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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