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In the Year of Our Lord 1765
Signed, Sealed & Delivd
in Presence of
[illegible] & [illegible]
Mark
Wm Pottye
David Pottye
Mary Pottye
her Mark
The Subscriber Personally appeared and
Acknowledged the Indenture above mentioned
to be Their Last Will and Dead hand and Seal
the day ands Date a Copy listed before me
William Pottye Justice of the Peace
The a fored Deed Recorded the 3 day of April A^d 1765
by J. S. Nosvay Town Clrk
Mary Clark of Monington in County of Newlondon and belonging to some
widow of [illegible] age being about fifty Nine years old and being duly
on Oath Deposed and still
that I have acquainted with Mr Joseph Stanton of Monington in Coun
of Newlondon and his family about 50 years ago and [illegible]
remember that he & his First Children namely Elizabeth Stanton & Jane
and I shall remember that some be had Children by his Wife named
Mander & Will be remain’d to be had Children by his Wife named
Deacon [illegible] and I shall remember that some Like Time after he
did Marry Melissa Buntine and I would remember to be find Wills so in
[illegible] Rebecca Norton as inter
Wife and her Children by her Namely Rebecca Norton as inter
Stanton with Other Anderson Short I Do not remember there Hence
Stanton with Other Anderson Short I Do not remember there Hence
and I doth not say any thing Further Mary M Clark
her Mark
Newlondon County for Monington p^o 17^th Day of 10^th Mo 1768
M^y Mary Clark of Monington in County of Newlondon an Cit
Countenant personally appeared and made solemn Oath to the
of above written Deposition that upon sworn solemn Engagement
for perpetual memory of it thing before
Thos Bury Justice of Said land
Amer Childeborough Justice of Said
The above Instance was Recorded the 21 Day of April A^d 1768
by J. S. Nosvay Town Clrk