Samuel Berry

Samuel Berry

1780-12-06

[T]he deposition of Samuel Berry 2nd of Lawful age who testifieth and saith that he some time in the month of October 1780 --- he saw Maj. Ezra Putnam, Benjamin Wilkins Jr., John Estes [Estey], Nathaniel Wiley, Elias Bixby, and Snow Francis, and two other Persons to the deponant unknown, gather several loads of Indian Corn in the feild then & now in the Possession of John Peters, in said Middleton, and carry the same corn out of the said feild, in carts drawn by oxen and I the deponant in some time the fall past saw M’r. Othnial Wilkins & Snow Francis, Pick and cart of[f] from the farm, or feild aforesaid, several cart loads of apples. -- The deponant further saith that he has heard the abovesaid John Peters say that he would go as far in the law concerning the Estate on which he now lives as he could, before he would give it up. I have also heard the said John Peters say that the real & personal Estate now in dispute was all his – and further the deponent saith not -- [signature: Samuel Berry 2]

[Sworn to on Dec. 6, 1780, before Justice of the Peace Amos Putnam. Taken at the request of John Peters. Benjamin Wilkins, the respondent was notified and was Present at the time of the caption.]