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contained, the Two Parchnet Indentures now Exhibited unto him this Deponent Whole
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undefaced and uncancelled bearring date the Ninth and Tenth days of this Instant
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January, purporting and being Deeds of Leese and Release or Bargain and Sale
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made or mentioned to be made, Between the said Richard
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Mary Oldfield
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Anne Modyford
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William Bowle
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les Bowles of the One Sort, and
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George Bennett
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of the Parish of
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St. John
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in the Island of Jamaica aforesaid Planter
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of the Other Part, and that he this Deponent as a Witness to the Sealing and Delivery
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thereof did on Each of them Write and Endorse his Name as thereby it doth and may
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Appear; And this Deponent further Saith, That he was also Present and did see the said
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Richard Old field,
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William Bowles
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Charles Bowles
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Sign the Receipt on the back of the Said Deed of Release for the Sum of Two hundred
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and Eighty five Pounds, being the Consideration Money therein mentioned, and that
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he this Deponent as a Witness to the Signing of the Said Receipt, did thereunto Subscribe
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his Name, as thereby it Likewise doth and may Appear. And this Deponent further
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Saith, That the Four Other Parelimt. Indentures now Exhibited unto him, purporting and
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being Deeds of Lease and RElease, of the Same Tenor and Date with those abovemencon
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were Sealed and Delivered by the Parties abovenamed, and the Receipts on the Back of
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the Deeds of Releaf by them Signed in the Presence of him this Depont. and that as a
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Witness thereto he did Write and Endorse his Name
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Each of the Said Deeds, and also
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subscribe his Name to the Said Receipts
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d may Appear.
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Sworn the
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18th. day of January
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1734
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. before me
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W
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Clayton
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