Chowan County NcArchives Court.....King, Nathan 1707
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1707

Depositions - 1707 January 10, 21; June 12

North Carolina ss.

Before me Edward Moseley Esqr. one of the members of the Council and being 
authorised to take depositions of certain persons relating to the boundarys of 
the Government personally came and appeared W. Boush aged sixty five years or 
thereabouts who on his oath according to the forme of his profession taken 
saith that on or about the year one thousand six hundred fifty eight or fifty 
nine he this deponent came into Virginia and lived twenty years or thereabouts 
within sixteen miles or thereabouts of Weyanoake River being the first river 
on the right hand as you goe down Blackwater River and about twelve miles 
above Maherine River during the major part of which time this deponent never 
heard it go by any other name than Weyanoke and this deponent further saith 
that about twelve years agoe (one of this deponents neighbours) Nathan King 
took up a piece of land lying opposite to the mouth of the said River which 
land was commonly said by the neighbours to ly at the mouth of Weyanoke River 
to distinguish it from other land the said Nathan had and this deponent 
further saith that he never knew or heard of any other Weyanoke River than 
that aforementioned and which by the Virginians has lately been called 
Nottoway by reason the Nottoway Indians having of late been the chief dwellers 
near it.
                                            Wm. Bush
Capt. et Jurat Vicesimo
primo die Januar. Anno 1707
Coram me Edwd. Moseley

[Colonial Records of NC - Records of the Executive Council, 1664-1734, p. 417]

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