SoS_Will_Books_45_019

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Portsmouth Novr. the 8th. 1709

I hereby make over all my right title & interest of Six hundred & forty
Acres of Land Lyeing on the No. side of Nuse river in No. Carolina &
Joynes of James Beards Land, Called by the Name of Richd. Dereham
Land Witness my hand
Jno. Lawson

To Christo. Gale Esqr.

Test:
Jno. Plunkett
Rececca Kirk

Received of Christo. Gale Esqr. the Sume of nineteen pounds
Eleven Shillings & three pence Sterl. in consideration of my right
& Title to the Sd. Land above mentioned. Witness my hand the day
above written

Recorded per order of the Court of Chancery
this 6. day of May Ano Dom. 1713.

T: Knight: Secry.

No. Carolina ss: Att a Court of Chancery holden at the house of Captn. Tho:
Lee in Chowan on Munday May the 11. Ano Dom. 1713

Present The Honble: Thom Pollock Esqr. President &ca

{ Tho: Boyd }
The Honble { Wm Reed }
{ Chris: Gale } Esqrs. Lds proprs. Deptys
{ T: Knight }

Upon reading the bill of Complt. of Wm Duckenfield Esqr. of the Prect: of Chowan
this Day, therein Setting forth that he the Sd. Wm Duckenfield abt Sixteen
years last part was & yett is Lawfully Seized in his Demean as of fee, of
in one large tract of Land in the prect. afsd. containing by estimacion fower
thousand Acres of Land bounding on Albemarle Sound Eastward & on
Salmon Creek Westward, & being thereof Soe Seized One Jno. Arderne
Esqr. coming into this Governmt: being Something related to him to
Sd. Duckenfield by intermarriage & the Sd. Jno. Arderne being in Low
circumstances & not in possession of any Vissible Estate, he the Sd. Duckenf
the better to gain credit & reputation to him the Sd. Arderne & to put him into
Possession of a Vissible Estate thereby to advance himself upon Genll
trust & Confidence wch he then Secretly reposed on the Sd. Arderne