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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 882   View pdf image
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       of a Certain tract of Land lying in Dorchester County Containing six hundred
       and fifty acres called Towne neck Wee do therefore humbly Certifye that
       this day to witt the 13.th day of October Anno Dm 1712 Personally appear'd
       before us Phillip Shapley of the County of Northumbeland in the Colony of
       Virginia Gentleman aged about sixty seven years or thereabouts and being
       by us upon the holy Evangelist sworne upon his oath doth say that
       that being forty two or forty three years last past deputed Survey.r of this
       County that then he did survey and lay out for one Richard Hooper
       a Certain Tract of Land being on the East Side of Cheasapeake Bay and
       on the East Side of Chiconocomico Creek in the County aforesaid called and
       knowne by the name of Towne neck

          And the Said Deponent did solemnly declare on his oath that to the best
       of his knowledge the first bounded Tree of the Said Land called Towne neck
       did stand on the East side of Chiconocomoco Creek about Forty Yards below
       a Landing of the Said Creek called Dias's Thomas Dyas his Landing

             And the Said Deponent saith that about Twenty two years since
       he came into Company with Col Charles Hutchins late of this County to the
       said Place and that then the first bounded Tree of the Said Land was there
       standing being a White oake

             And he further saith that being on the Land and at the place aforesaid
       about six years since in Company with Col Thomas Ennalls Robert Jones and
       Thomas Dyas the said first markt Tree was then fallen downe and allmost
       Rotten and the Said Depon.t being on the Land and at the place aforesaid
       yesterday being the Twenty Ninth day of October Anno Dm 1712 in Company
       with with Cap.t Livin Hicks Roger Woolford Jun.r and Thomas Loockerman
       and then observeing where the first bounded Tree of the Said Land stood and
       it was quite perished and gone

             And the Said Depon.t being asked by us what Course he designed from
       the Said First Tree of the Said Land who answered on his oath aforesaid
       he designed the Land to be a Square and the first Course to be South East to
       answer the second and third Coursey on Right Angles

             And the said Depon.t being Demanded by what taken he knew the first
       bounded Tree of the aforesaid Land to stand there answered that he very well
       knew it to be the same by the Creeke comeing boldly up to the firm Land and
       by a Little Island of wood that lyes Just below the first Tree in the Marsh


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