Deposition of Edward Wilson ex parte Robert Rowan

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1348
<The said> Edward wilson of Latmackmurphy in the parish of Aghalow in the Barony of Dungannon and County of Tirone gent being duly sworne and examined on the behalfe of Roberte Rowan a little Child and sonne to James Rowan late of Magharnahaly in the County of Ardmagh gent murthered by the rebells, deposeth and saith that the said James Rowan, before the Rebellion began was worth and had an personall estate in lands leases ready money in his howse, and money owing him by men now in actuall rebellion, and in other goods and Chattells to the value of two thousand pound and aboue, and haveing such an estate as aforesaid was since the rebellion began and by meanes thereof expelled from deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of all his meanes and estate aforesaid and after halfe ayeares imprisonment was himselfe murthered in the prison And his wife and 4 smale Children goeing towards Clannyboys for safetie of theire lives were all most cruelly murthered by the rebells in the highway (to witt) the mother was knockt in the head being greate with child, and 2 of her children were hanged over theire mothers shoulder. before they murthered her. and her other 2 Children were knockt in the head and so killed, and att the same time and place 14 of her servants were also murthered by the Rebells. And saith that the rebells that robbed the said James Rowan as aforesaid were the Inhitants of the Newry. but the names of those rebells that comitted the aforesaid Murthers nor theire places of present abode this deponent knoweth not Which estate of the said James Rowan as aforesaid by the death of the said James his wife and other children of right belongeth to the said Rob Robert Rowan his sonne
Edw: Wilson
his [mark] marke
Jur 12o Oct 1642 coram
Will: Aldrich
Joh Watson:

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1349

Tirone
deposic Edw wilson
Jur 12o Oct 1642
Cert fact et deliverat
hand Intw